Tuesday 5 February 2013

Coconut Rice

I actually saw this recipe on a blog but I don't remember which blog it was so whoever I took this recipe from - Thank you!

Serves 4 people

1 cup rice
1/2 cup coconut milk in a tin (if you have fresh coconut milk even better)
2 onions
1 inch ginger (chopped fine or ginger paste will do)
2-3 cloves of garlic (chopped fine or garlic paste will do)
Oil for frying
1 inch Cinamon stick
Few Methi (Fenugreek) seeds
Salt

Soak the rice for about half an hour. Drain the soaked rice well and keep it aside.

Fry 2 onions along with the ginger and garlic. Add the drained rice to it and stir it very very gently. Now add the coconut milk and around 1.5 cups of water (double the quanity of rice in the vessel). Do not stir. Add cinamon and Methi seeds and leave it on a medium flame to boil. When you notice that the liquid has almost dried off switch it on to a very low flame and cover the vessel so that it cooks all the way through for about 10-15 mins. Finally fluff the rice with a fork.

Note - It is important not to stir the rice so that in the end you get separate grains of rice and not just a mushy blob! Do not add too many Methi seeds as they are bitter (

Enjoy and let me know how it goes :)