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simple coconut rice recipe/(Grated)Thengai sadam

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Total Time 20 minutes
Ingredients Method Notes

Ingredients
  

  • Raw rice boiled to make - 2 cups
  • Coconut scrapped - 3/4 th cup
  • Salt to taste
  • Red chillies - 2
  • Asafoetida - 1/4 tsp
  • Ghee - 1 tbsp
  • Oil - 1 tbsp
  • Fried cashew-nuts - 2 tbsp broken
  • Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
  • Urad dhal - 1tbsp
  • Bengal gram dhal - 1 tsp
  • Curry leaves as required

Method
 

  1. Pressur cook the rice and spread the rice on a plate.
  2. Add little ghee to it and mix so that it does not stick together.
  3. Now keep a kadai add oil,when hot add mustard and let it splutter.
  4. Add urad,bengal gram dhal and leave it to brown.
  5. Now add Chillies,salt ,asafoetida,curry leaves and mix.
  6. Then add coconut and fry nicely.
  7. Then add the rice and mix thoroughly for 5 minutes.
  8. Switch off and add fried cashews.
  9. Add little more ghee and mix.

Notes

You can use both red and green chillies it is purely optional.
If you have grated coconut in hand it is a easy-easy work.
Adding ghee increases the flavor of the dish.