Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Coconut Rice (Thengai sadam)

This is again a very authentic south indian recipe. It's very easy to prepare & it's one of the best lunch box recipe.
This goes well the mashed potato fry.

Ingredients:

Cooked rice : 2 cups (use 10% less water than you normally do to cook the rice)
Fresh grated coconut : 1/2 cup
Dry red chillies : 5nos
Gram daal (Kadalai Parruppu) : 1 tsp
Hing - pinch
Mustard seeds : 1 tsp 
Urad dal  : 1 tsp
Gingelly oil : 4 tsp
Curry leaves -5nos
Salt

Method:

Heat oil in a pan , add mustard seeds + urad dal and saute until the mustard seeds starts spluttering.
Then add curry leaves, gram dal , hing, red chillies, grated coconut  salt in the same order and saute well.
Once the coconut scrappings turns into light brown (at this stage nice aroma also comes from the coconut), then add cooked rice and mix gently.
Coconut rice is ready to serve.

PS: The rice should be non- sticky.

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