A wonderful tasting dish with a pleasant aroma in which rice is cooked in coconut milk. The whole preparation takes about 1-1/2 hours including extracting milk. You do not require any sides with the coconut milk rice and eat it as it is.

Please go through the step-by-step instructions on how to cook Coconut Milk Rice

Step 1: Ingredients

The quantities of ingredients mentioned here will serve 4 to 5 people

About 300 grams of parboiled rice. You can use any type of rice
One coconut. If it is a larger one use 3/4th of the coconut
One large sized onion
2 Tomatoes
10 to 12 Garlic cloves
Handful of Mint leaves
Handful of Coriander leaves
3 to 4 Green chillies
One inch long piece of Ginger
One to two teaspoons of Ghee (Clarified Butter)

Spices

Few sticks of Cinnamon
3 to 4 Bay leaves
6 to 7 Cloves
One full piece of Star Anise
3 to 4 Cardamom pods
Handful of dried sea weeds (It is a type of spice we use in South Indian cooking)

Step 2: Rinse and Clean Rice

Rinse the rice in water 3 to 4 times till water runs clean from the rice and keep aside

Step 3: Prepare Ingredients

Finely chop onion and tomatoes
Split the green chillies in halves
Finely chop mint and coriander leaves
Break cinnamon sticks, Star anise into pieces
Break open the Cardamom pods and remove seeds. Do not throw away the skin.

Step 4: Ginger Garlic Paste

Remove ginger skin and shuck garlic
Place them in a mixer grinder and make paste. I have added a spoonful of milk for making a fine paste

Step 5: Make Coconut Milk

Break open the coconut and remove coconut meat from the shell
Add the sliced coconut meat with water in a mixer grinder and grind to a fine paste
Using a cheese cloth, filter out the coconut milk. You can extract milk 2 to 3 times from coconut meat

We need about 1200 ml of Coconut milk (@400 ml per 100 gram of rice)

Step 6: Preparation Step 1

Place a 5 litre capacity pressure cooker over medium flame and add 2 to 3 teaspoons of ghee
When the ghee melts, add the spices like Cinnamon,Star Anise, Cloves, Cardamom, Bay leaves and dried sea weeds.
Add chopped mint leaves and coriander leaves to the cooker and stir-fry for few seconds

Step 7: Preparation Step 2

Now add chopped onions, Ginger-Garlic paste and split green chillies to the cooker and stir-fry till onion turns into golden brown
Add chopped tomatoes and salt to taste. Mix well and saute till tomato pieces mix with other ingredients

Step 8: Preparation Step 3

Add the cleaned rice to the cooker and mix with other ingredients

Step 9: Preparation Step 4

Measure and add coconut milk to the cooker. Do not add more as the finished rice will be watery
Mix all ingredients together with coconut milk and keep on medium flame till the mix starts boiling
Now cover the cooker with lid and pressure cook for about 7 to 8 minutes. In our cooker we cook for three whistles, that is three times release of pressure from the cooker.

Step 10: Serve Hot

Once pressure-cooking is over, remove the cooker from stove and allow the pressure to come to normal
When pressure is normal, open the lid and transfer the Coconut Milk Rice to a serving bowl

Serve hot. You do not require any sides with the coconut milk rice as it has a wonderful taste with pleasant aroma.

Introduction: How to Make Coconut Milk Rice