Coconut milk rice, is a fragrant and flavorful rice dish popular in South Indian cuisine. It’s essentially rice cooked in creamy coconut milk along with aromatic spices, resulting in a subtly sweet and rich flavor.

Coconut Milk Rice by Anilyzed

Ingredients

2 cups raw rice
4 cups coconut milk
2 inch ginger
1/4 cup coriander seeds
salt to taste
8-9 garlic cloves, finely sliced
4-5 slit green chillies
1 onion, finely sliced
1″ Cinnamon stick (2 pieces)
2 cloves
2 elachis
1-2 bay leaf
1 tbsp ghee

1. Heat ghee in a cooking vessel on medium heat, add the Cinnamon stick, cloves, elachi and bay leaf and fry for a few seconds. Add sliced garlic and fry for half a minute. Add the green chillies and sliced onions and saute for 4 mts on medium heat.
2. Add salt and combine. Add the drained rice and fry it along with onions for a minute. Add 4 cups of coconut milk and bring to a boil.
3. Reduce heat and place lid and cook till rice is done.
4. Garnish with coriander leaves.

How to extract coconut milk:

Grate a coconut and ginger add coriander seeds and 4 glasses of water. Grind it to a fine paste. Place a muslin or thin cotton cloth on a vessel and pour this mixture onto the muslin cloth. Use your hand to squeeze out the milk from the residue.

Note:
Alternately, you could add vegetables of your choice for a vegetable coconut flavored rice. Once the onions are fried, add the cubed vegetables and saute for 6-7 mts and follow the rest of the above procedure. Another option is to add 1 tsp ginger garlic paste in place of the sliced garlic.