Name: Coconut Rice recipe by Reena Andavarapu at BetterButter
Prep time: 20 min
Cook time: 30 min
Total time: 50 min
Yield: 6
Ingredients: Rice - 3 cups; Carrots - 2medium sized; Cauliflower florets 2 cups. (You may add more vegetables like beans, green peas if you wish to); Onions - 4 medium; Green chillies - 5; Red chillies - 2 to 3; Curry leaves - 2 stalks; Cashew nuts - 2 fistful; Coconut milk of half a coconut; Water; Tempering -; Bay leaves 3 to 4,; Ginger garlic paste - 2 tsp; Red chilli powder - 1 tsp; Turmeric - 1/2 tsp; star anise 1 or 2; Whole spices powder- 6 to cloves, 1" cinnamon stick, 6 cardamoms, small piece of nutmeg; Salt to tast; ghee; oil

Ingredients Serving: 6

Rice - 3 cups
Carrots - 2medium sized
Cauliflower florets 2 cups. (You may add more vegetables like beans, green peas if you wish to)
Onions - 4 medium
Green chillies - 5
Red chillies - 2 to 3
Curry leaves - 2 stalks
Cashew nuts - 2 fistful
Coconut milk of half a coconut
Water
Tempering -
Bay leaves 3 to 4,
Ginger garlic paste - 2 tsp
Red chilli powder - 1 tsp
Turmeric - 1/2 tsp
star anise 1 or 2
Whole spices powder- 6 to cloves, 1" cinnamon stick, 6 cardamoms, small piece of nutmeg
Salt to tast
ghee
oil

Instructions

Preparations -
Grinding whole spices, slicing onions, making the ginger garlic paste, extracting coconut milk, soaking the cashew nuts,blanch the cauliflower florets.
First wash and soak rice
Now Take some oil and ghee In a pan
Add the ingredients for tempering
Add the broken green chillies, red chillies
Saute for a while and add the sliced onions
Now saute the onions till nice golden colour and then add the ginger garlic paste and curry leaves
Now saute for a while and add the chopped vegetables and soaked cashews
Add the dry powders and some salt
Saute for a while
Now add the washed and soaked rice
Mix and add required quantity of water, remembering to add coconut milk later, count total number of cups of water and coconut milk.
Now wait for a boil
Next, add the coconut milk
Mix and check taste for salt
Now cover and cook till done. For 15 minutes or more

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