Coconut Rice Recipe - How To Make Coconut Rice

    What a beautiful recipe to talk about. Coconut rice is the best rice recipe with a natural flavored taste. It is consumed all around in Nigeria. All tribes are familiar with this recipe. Coconut rice is simple to cook, but takes time and patience. It is not prepared straight forward, but requires some procedure which takes energy.

   Coconut rice recipe is a delicious meal cooked with coconut fruit. The milk extracted from the coconut is what is being used to prepare the rice. Other ingredients such as vegetables are welcome. Coconut rice has a great look, depending on the kind of method you prepare it. But as for me, I prefer having a light or whitish look, and not letting other ingredients overtaste the rice. So as for me...... I prefer using sliced bell pepper, other than tin tomatoe, or blended pepper. 

   In order to have a very delicious, tasty, yummy, aromatic coconut rice, it depends on how many coconut fruit to use, to the measured rice you want to prepare. Please take note: when cooking coconut rice recipe, avoid adding ginger, garlic, or locust beans. I believe some of us loves any of these ingredients but to be sincere. It isn't perfect for the taste it would give.

   I would be explaining about the ingredients used to prepare, and procedure to take in order to get a good prepared result.

  How To Make Coconut Rice

  INGREDIENTS

1.) 4 cups Rice

2.) 2 Big fully ripe coconut

3.) 1 Large onions

4.) Vegetables; red bell pepper, carrot, green peas, spring onions

5.) 2 Maggi cube

6.) 1 tsp salt to taste

7.) 1/2 cup groundnut oil

8.) Diced kidney

  INSTRUCTIONS

1.) Break the coconut shell to remove the coconut itself. Cut into smaller pieces in order to be able to blend or hold it firmly when blending, or grating. If blending, add a little water to make it easier for the blender to work. After this, get the grated coconut into a bowl, add in warm water. Use hands to mix thoroughly by extracting the milk/juice from it. Seize water into another clean bowl. 

2.) You can repeat the same procedure to the coconut cheese to make sure all milky content is extracted. That milky juice is what will be needed to cook the rice. 

3.) Pour the milky juice inside a pot, add in groundnut oil, salt, Maggi. Place on cooker, and make sure it get boiled. After being boiled, wash and rinse rinse rice to it. Let it cook enough, till soft. This takes 10 minutes.

4.) Alongside cooking the rice, fry vegetables in another pot. Put Groundnut oil in a pot on fire, add in sliced onions, wait to fry for some seconds. Add other vegetables, and season with little salt. Fry till done. As soon as it is 10minutes, apply the fried ingredients to the coconut rice. Mix together well, and let it team for 1minute. Giving the vegetables a crunchy taste, taste better.

5.) Coconut rice is ready, you can serve with fried plantain, chicken, and chilled juice. 

   Method simple and easy. Hope you loved this recipe, would be talking about Jollof Coconut Rice Recipe some other time.