simple coconut rice recipe/(Grated)Thengai sadam
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
Instructions
- Pressur cook the rice and spread the rice on a plate.
- Add little ghee to it and mix so that it does not stick together.
- Now keep a kadai add oil,when hot add mustard and let it splutter.
- Add urad,bengal gram dhal and leave it to brown.
- Now add Chillies,salt ,asafoetida,curry leaves and mix.
- Then add coconut and fry nicely.
- Then add the rice and mix thoroughly for 5 minutes.
- Switch off and add fried cashews.
- 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.
If you have grated coconut in hand it is a easy-easy work.
Adding ghee increases the flavor of the dish.