Coconut rice recipe | How to make coocnut rice | Kayi anna
By Latha on September 19th, 2017
Coconut rice recipe explained with step by step pictures and a video. This is a very simple one pot meal recipe prepared using rice, coconut and chili. Coconut rice is a very tasty rice bath recipe.
Coconut rice..sounds simple right? Though the recipe is simple, coconut rice is full of coconut flavor and it tastes too good. I learnt this recipe from my hostel cook "Ranganna". We were not liking hostel food much. But breakfast items used be tasty. I still remember Ranganna Uncle's tomato bath, lemon rice, tamarind rice, upma or uppittu, idli, poori and dose. This coconut rice will be very mild in taste. Making it spicy is not recommended to enjoy mild taste along with the coconut flavor.
My son loves this so much. Once in a while I pack this for his lunch box. If you are looking for more Karnataka style rice recipes then click on the links given below. We have posted many ricebath recipes like bisi bele bath, veg pulav, tomato bath, curd rice, ghee rice, pongal, gorikayi rice bath, vangi bath, methi rice, no-onion chitranna, nellikai chitranna, mavinakai or mango chitranna, puliyogare and pudina pulao recipes.
If you are looking for more Karnataka style breakfast recipes then do visit our breakfast section.
I have made a video on this recipe with Kannada narration, which I have embedded it below. Kindly have a look.
Preparation time: 10 min
Cooking time: 30 min
Serves: 3
Ingredients: (measuring cup used = 240ml)
- 1/2 cup rice (I used sona masoori)
- 1/2 cup fresh grated coconut
- 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
- 2 tbsp groundnut or peanut
- 1 tsp urad dal
- 1 tsp chana dal or bengal gram dal
- 4 - 5 cashews
- 1 green chili
- 1 red chili
- 1/2 tsp chopped ginger (optional)
- A pinch of asafoetida
- 1 tsp salt (or as per your taste)
- 1/2 tsp sugar
- 5 - 6 curry leaves
- 4 tbsp ghee or coconut oil
Instructions for making coconut rice:
- Cook the rice and keep it aside. Rice should be cooked well but not mushy.
- Now to begin with let us prepare tempering for the coconut rice. Take 4 tbsp of oil in a large frying pan and heat it under medium flame. At first add in ground nuts and fry until they start crackling.
- When the groundnuts crackles, add in mustard seeds, gram dal and urad dal. Fry until mustard seed splutters and dal turns brown.
- Next add in cashews, asafoetida, chopped ginger, broken red chili and slit green chili. Give a quick mix.
- Add in curry leaves.
- Add in grated coconut, salt and sugar. Mix it well and switch off the stove.
- Add in cooked rice.
- Mix well using a flat spatula, serve and enjoy.
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