Coconut Rice

Coconut rice: a mild rice with fresh coconut, lifted with mustard seeds and dal.

Ingredients

• 1 cup rice, 1½ cups water
• ⅓ to ½ of a coconut’s flesh, diced
• dal, black gram
• 1 onion
• curry leaves, mustard seeds
• 2 dried red chillies

Preparation

1. In a pressure cooker, cook the rice and water, stop at the first whistle, let cool.
2. Blend the coconut with a little water (almost liquid).
3. Heat the oil and add, in order: mustard seeds, curry leaves, dal and black gram, onion, the split chillies, the blended coconut.
4. Add the cooked rice to the mixture and season with salt.