Coconut Rice Recipe | How to make Coconut Rice | No Onion No Garlic (Festival Special Recipes)

Hi friends, thank you all for visiting my website and @EATeasyvegrecipes youtube channel. Today's recipe is coconut rice. best coconut rice recipe. During the festival season we offer no onion and no garlic food to the deity. During Durga puja season we normally offer rice varieties and also other prasadams too. Coconut rice is the best recipe of South India come under no onion garlic rice recipe category. The sweetness of coconut and spicy green chillies makes it a flavourful rice. It can be served without any side dish. I prefer to add freshly shredded coconut, instead of ground coconut powder. To get the best taste out of it I advise you to use fresh coconut only. Easily made and can be served in the lunch box.
Check out the other rice varieties which can be offered to the deity during any festival:
Tomato Pulihora
Curd Rice
Peanut Rice
Lemon Rice
Chintapandu Pulihora

During the festival season we collect a lot of coconuts, to make the best use of them, we make different varieties of recipes with them. You can check them out here:
coconut ladoo
coconut laskora
coconut powder

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Coconut Rice Recipe -- How to make Coconut Rice
Author: Sailaja Angara
Preparation Time: 20 Mins
Cooking time: 20 Mins
Servings: 4 People

Coconut rice is a South Indian no onion no garlic rice recipe to be served during the festival season.

Ingredients:

1 and 1/4 Cup Rice

1 and 1/4 Cup Freshly Shredded Coconut

2 Tbsp Oil and Ghee

1 Tbsp Groundnut

1/2 tbsp Black Gram/Urad Dal

1/2 tbsp Bengal Gram/Chana Dal

1 tsp Mustard Seeds

1 tsp Cumin Seeds

2 to 4 Red Chillies

1/4 tsp Asafoetida

3 to 4 Green Chillies

5 to 7 Curry Leaves

Procedure:

1. Pressure cook the rice with 3 cups of water. I took 1:2 ratio of rice and water.
2. If you are increasing rice quantity, increase water also proportionately.
3. Once cooker cooled, spread the rice onto a wide plate.
4. Add oil and salt to absorb extra moisture from the rice.
5. Split green chillies and shred coconut.
6. For shredding coconut, take out the coconut flesh from its shell and grate it on a cheese grater.
7. We can coconut grater to do so.
8. Heat oil in a kadai, add groundnuts, fry them till they turn ligh brown colour.
9. Add bengal gram and black gram to it, fry them and then curry leaves.
10. Add mustard seeds and cumin seeds.
11. When they start spluttering, add asafoetida.
12. Add split green chillies. Fry them till they turn crispy.
13. Add this tempering to already spread rice.
14. Mix all of them well.
15. Serve coconut rice recipe with curd or any pickle.