Coconut rice is my husband’s favorite rice dish. This is very easy to make one pot meal that can be done in 15 mins if your cooked rice are ready. This recipe is my husband grand ma’s recipe. I really love this rice because of the addition of secret ingredient (moong dal) which makes this rice protein rich and colorful. Here I used coconut oil for tempering the spices, so it makes the rice more flavorful. Best accompaniment for this coconut rice are colocasia roast or potato roast or papad (appalam). I had it with cauliflower fry.
Ingredients
1/4 cup and 2 Tbsp of Coconut (Fresh or Dry), I used dessicated coconut
2 Tbsp of Moong Dal
1 Cup of Water
2 Cups of Cooked Rice (Pressure Cooked)
1 Medium Size Red Onion, Finely Chopped
2 Green Chillies
1/2 Tsp of Turmeric Powder
Salt to Taste
To Temper
1 Tbsp of Coconut Oil
1 Red Chilly, Big
1 Tsp of Mustard
1 Tsp of Urad Dal
1 Tsp of Chana Dal (Bengal Gram)
1 Sprig of Curry Leaves
Method
- Heat a pan with water, add moong dal, turmeric powder and little salt, cook in medium flame for 10-15 mins until the dal gets cooked.
- Heat a pan, dry roast the coconut until it turns to light brown color, remove it from pan and keep this aside.
- Heat a pan with oil, when it is hot, add red chilly(break it), mustard seeds, urad dal, bengal gram, curry leaves, after mustard seeds splutters, add chopped onion and green chilies, fry this for few mins until it turns golden brown. Add cooked moong dal, fry for a min, add cooked rice and little salt, mix well with dal and spices. Finally add roasted coconut to the rice, mix well and turn off the flame.
- Protein rich coconut rice is ready to serve with any colocasia fry or potato roast or appalam.
Tips
- You can also make coconut rice without onion and dal.
- Adjust the number of green and red chilly according to your taste buds.
- You can use nuts like peanuts and cashews while tempering.
Health Benefits of Coconut
- Quick energy boost.
- High in dietary fiber.
- Improves heart health.
- It has anti-bacterial,anti-fungal & anti-parasitic properties.
- Coconut oil can improve blood cholesterol level, boosts brain function.
The coconut rice looks delish Gayathri. Adding dal is such a nice touch 🙂
Coconut rice looks delicious. Love the addition of dal.
Lovely rice Gayathri, my fav rice love the addition of dal
such a delish plate of rice… can have it just like that…
coconut rice looks interesting with the addition of moong dal and I usually don;t add onion in coconut rice
How tempting and you just reminded me that its time I make this coconut rice. Been such a long time and spot on to sharing the delicious rice dish.
flavorful rice!
Delicious thengai sadam, love the addition of dals here..
healthy and easy rice..nice…
Love the addition of dals.. yummy coconut rice
interesting and refreshing rice
I never tried with onion.But its nice to see your recipe.Will make it up one day.
wow very very delicious and healthy coconut rice 🙂 addition turmeric is new !! tempting me !!
Flavourful rice. my hubby’s fav 🙂
So so yummy looking rice and that sabji in the side making it even more beautiful…
Delicious, nice idea of adding the moong dal..
Thengai sadam looks yummy.
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