Coconut Milk Rice (Thengaa Paal Choru)

Coconut Milk Rice – Recipe 1

Ingredients for Coconut Milk Rice (Thengaa Paal Choru):

1. Jeerakasala rice – 3 cups

2. Coconut – 1 medium-sized, grated

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 the coconut.

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

3. Cook in a low flame till it’s done, and the 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 the 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 a weight on it and reduce the flame.

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

7. Transfer the cooked rice to a serving plate.

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

9. Serve hot.

Recipe Source: Vanitha Magazine December 15-31, 2018

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