Coconut Milk Rice (Thengaa Paal Choru)

Ingredients for Coconut Milk Rice (Thengaa Paal Choru):

1. Jeerakasala rice – 3 cup

2. Coconut – 1 medium sized, scrapped

3. Salt – For taste

4. Biryani leaf (bay leaf) – 2 pieces

How to prepare Coconut Milk Rice (Thengaa Paal Choru)?

1. Extract 4.5 cups of coconut milk from coconut.

2. Mix all ingredients together and transfer them to a thick bottomed vessel.

3. Cook in low flame till it’s done and water content is fully absorbed.

Recipe Source: Vanitha Magazine February 15-29, 2012

Coconut Milk Rice (Recipe 2)

Ingredients for Coconut Milk Rice (Recipe 2):

1. Ghee – A little

2. Cinnamon and cloves – A little

    Shallots chopped – As required

3. Green chillies – 2

    Garlic – 6 cloves

    Ginger – 1 piece

4. Fennel seeds  – 1 small spoon

5. Green peas – 100 gm

    Carrot, beans cut lengthwise – 1.5 cups together

6. Basmati rice – 1 cup, fried

    Coconut milk – 6 cups

    Salt – For taste

7. Onions – 1, sliced

    Cashews, raisins – To decorate

How to prepare Coconut Milk Rice (Recipe 2)?

1. Heat ghee in a pressure cooker and sauté ingredients no: 2.

2. Crush ingredients no: 3, add to ghee and sauté again.

3. When it turns light brown add fennel seeds followed by ingredients no: 5 and mix well.

4. Add ingredients no: 6, mix well and close the lid.

5. When steam comes out, put the weight and reduce the flame.

6. Cook for 10 minutes and put off the flame.

7. Transfer the cooked rice to a serving plate.

8. Fry ingredients no: 7 in oil or ghee and pour on the top of coconut rice.

9. Serve hot.

Recipe Source: Vanitha Magazine December 15-31, 2018

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