Coconut Rice

Coconut Rice is a very flavorful and festive dish.By festive,i mean it is cooked and offered to God during Indian festivals in most of the households.Well my mom never made this dish neither was i aware of this fact until i visited a friends house for Ganesh Chaturti and she offered me this dish as prasad.This is a very simple dish yet its so flavorful and tasty.

Ingredients

- 1 cup long grain rice/any rice(soak it in water for 20 minutes and cook it so that grains are separate)
- 1 cup freshly grated coconut/defrosted grated coconut
- 1 Tbsp urad dal
- 1 Tbsp oil
- 4 green chillies(as per your taste)
- 2 dried red chillies
- 1 Tbsp groundnuts/peanuts
- 1 Tbsp cashew nuts(optional)
- 1 strand curry leaves(approx 10 leaves)
- salt to taste
- 1 tsp cumin/zeera seeds
- 1 tsp mustard seeds
- pinch of hing/asafoetida

Recipe

- Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds/cumin seeds.Wait till the seeds splutter and add green chillies,red chillies,hing,peanuts and cashew nuts into the oil and saute them for 2-3 minutes.Now add urad dal,curry leaves and saute them altogether for another 2 minutes.
- Add the grated coconut and saute for another 3 minutes.
- Now add the rice,salt to the pan and mix all the contents well.
- Cover it with a lid and cook on low flame for 5 minutes.
- Serve hot