Coconut Rice

An easy to make flavorful and scrumptious rice dish, Coconut Rice is a South Indian delight made with freshly grated coconut or coconut milk, tempering spices, curry leaves, dry fruits, and rice. Most commonly made during festivals and occasions in south India, Coconut Rice is a flavorful combination of spices and herbs that impart a mouthwatering essence to it and can be enjoyed alone or with a vegetable curry. As both the coconut and rice plants are commonly found in the tropical regions all over the globe, coconut rice is too prepared in many countries and cultures with different variations, spanning across the equator from the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, South America, Central America, East Africa, the Caribbean, and Oceania.

It is also known by the names Thengai Sadam and Kobbari Annam in regional South Indian languages. There are two ways in which coconut rice can be made in South India. One method involves tempering all the spices and curry leaves and then adding coconut and precooked rice to it, while the other version requires the rice to be cooked along with coconut milk and spices in one pot. Both the ways of cooking coconut rice produce a delectable, healthy, and palatable meal that will delight your senses with the aroma permeating in the air and tingle your taste buds with its flavors.