Coconut Rice | Tengu Anna | How to make coconut bhaat?
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Recipe type: Lunch
Cuisine: Indian
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Serves: 4 people
 
Simple, easy, flavourful coconut flavoured rice/bhaat
Ingredients
  • 1 Cup basmati rice
  • 1 Tbsp edible coconut oil
  • ½ Tsp mustard
  • ½ Tsp jeera
  • 7-8 chopped curry leaves
  • A pinc of hing
  • 2 finely chopped green chillies
  • 1 Tsp chana dal
  • 1 Tsp urad dal
  • 8-10 whole/broken cashews
  • ½ Cup packed grated coconut
  • Salt to taste
  • Chopped coriander to garnish
Method
  1. Rinse basmati rice in water a few times till water runs clear. Soak in water for 15 mins
  2. Drain water, add new water and pressure cook with 2 cups of water for 3 whistles or cook in pan till all liquid gets absorbed. Keep aside
  3. While rice is cooking, heat ½ Tsp coconut oil in a pan, add cashews and fry till light golden. Remove them from oil keep aside
  4. Add remaining coconut oil, add jeera and mustard, let them splutter
  5. Add hing, chana dal, urad dal, chopped green chillies, curry leaves and fry till dals turn golden
  6. When dals are frying, spread cooked rice in plate or paraat(big plate) and let it cool, fluff up with a fork
  7. Add almost all of the grated coconut into the pan with tadka and toast lightly till it mixes well with the tadka and releases coconuty aroma
  8. Add salt to rice, add rice to tadka, fluff up as you mix it
  9. Add fried cashews and mix well
  10. Add remaining grated coconut, chopped coriander. Mix well
  11. Serve at room temperature or warm with raitha of your choice or pack it for lunch box. Here I have served it with yellow bell pepper/capsicum hasi majjige huLi (sauteed bell pepper ground into a paste with grated coconut, pepper, jeera, mustard and then mixed with salt and yogurt)
Notes
Use regular cooked rice if you want for this recipe

Optionally groundnuts can also be added, add them while making tadka once dals turn light golden and fry till they crisp up

Avoid hing to make this recipe gluten free

This recipe is vegan

Add freshly grated coconut as per your liking. The amount specified here is on the 'more' side for given proportion of rice

Use regular oil instead of edible coconut oil if you want
Recipe by Food Of Interest at https://foodofinterest.com/coconut-rice/