Sweet Coconut Rice | Narali Bhaat
Sweet coconut rice is a no onion no garlic rice recipe made with coconut milk, sugar, spices,desi ghee and dry fruits.
Ingredients
- 1 cup Basmati rice
- 1 cup thick coconut milk Or extracted from 1/2 cup grated coconut
- 4 tablespoon sugar
- 10 cloves
- 1 tablespoon + 1 teaspoon desi ghee/clarified butter
- ½ teaspoon cardamom powder
- 20 crushed cashewnuts
- 20 raisins
- ¼ teaspoon salt or as per taste
Instructions
- In a kadai, add 1 teaspoon ghee and add raisins. After they get puffed, remove them and keep them aside. In the same kadai roast cashewnuts.
- Wash and soak the rice for 1 hour in enough water. After 1 hour, drain the water.
- In a kadai, heat ghee and add cloves and rice. Stir-fry rice in ghee for 5 minutes.
- Boil 1 cup water and add it to kadai in which rice is being stir fried. Let rice get par boiled.
- After all the water is absorbed by rice, add coconut milk and dry fruits.
- Let the rice get cooked in coconut milk. After the coconut milk gets absorbed, add sugar and cardamom powder. Adjust salt.
Notes
For extracting coconut milk, take 1 cup freshly grated coconut and grind it by adding ½ cup water. Pass this through a strainer and retain the coconut milk.