Coconut Rice / Thengai Satham / Tiifin Box recipe / Lunch Recipe

Coconut Rice / Thengai Satham / Tiifin Box recipe / Lunch Recipe:

    Coconut Rice is a very simple recipe , For school going kids and office going people this rice can be packed in the lunch box and the taste and flavour of the coconut rice is awesome. This can be even prepared by bachelors who even dont know any thing about cooking. Here we are going to add the cooked mixture of coconut in the steamed rice.  Let us see how to cook our recipe Coconut Rice today.

Ingredients:

1. Steamed Rice - 4 cups
2. Coconut - 1 1/2 cups (grated)
3. Bengal gram(kadalai paruppu) - 1 tbsp
4. Cashew nuts - 1 tbsp
5. Shallots(small onions) - 7-8 nos
6. Mustard seeds - 1 tsp
7. Urad dhal - 1 tsp
8. Cumin seeds - 1 tsp
9. Dry Chillies - 3-4 nos
10. Ghee - 1tsp
11. Oil - 2tsp
12. Curry leaves for garnish

Method:

• Heat a kadai and pour oil and 1 tsp of ghee in it.
• Allow mustard seeds , urad dhal and cumin seeds to temper.
• Add the cashew nuts and bengal gram and saute till it turns the color.
  
• Add chopped shallots, dry chillies, curry leaves and cook till the onions are translucent.
  
  
  
  
•  Add grated coconut and mix well .
  
• Saute the mixture for 3-4 min in low flame.
• Switch off the stove and add the mixture to the steamed rice and mix it well.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Now our coconut rice is ready.