Coconut Rice

I have written that I cook Thai rice once in a while because we relish it so much. Yesterday  I had some grated coconut in the refrigerator and I didn’t have the time to extract its milk. So I searched for coconut rice recipe and saw it here http://www.tarladalal.com/Coconut-Rice-32890r

I modified it so that I won’t have to do much when I come from the clinic at one o’clock as we are already hungry. And it turned out delicious. Here’s what I followed:

Ingredients:

Rice        - 1 cup

Grated coconut                - ¾ cup

Water   -2 cups

Salt to taste

Ghee or oil          -2 tbsps

Mustard seeds  - ½ tsp

Jeera (cumin seeds)       - ½ tsp

Sesame seeds   - 1 ½ tbsps

Urad dal (split black gram)            -1 tsp

Chana dal (split Bengal gram) – 1 tsp

Curry leaves       - 10

Asafoetida          - ¼ tsp

Method:

-          Clean, wash the rice and keep aside

-          Heat the ghee in the pressure cooker, add the mustard seeds. When they splutter, add jeera, sesame seeds, asafoetida, urad dal, chana dal and curry leaves in that order, one after the other, stirring for a second after each addition.

-          Now add the grated coconut, stir, cook for a second and add the rice and stir for two seconds.

-          Add the salt and water , and pressure cook for six minutes.

-          Let the cooker cool and then open it

-           I transfer it to a casserole and keep it closed. When I come in the afternoon, it will be still warm.