Yellow rice cooked in creamy coconut milk is very delicious and needs no side dish to enjoy it. Check out the pretty simple recipe of yellow rice.
Ingredients
2 cups basmati rice
2 cups grated coconut
3 onions
10 pepper corns
4 cardamom pods
4 cloves
2 pieces cinnamon
Cashews
½ tsp turmeric powder
3 tsp ghee
Coconut oil
Salt as required
Preparation
Wash the basmati rice and soak for 20 minutes
Mix ½ tsp sugar in 2 sliced onions
Heat coconut oil and ghee in a pan
Fry the onions until crisp
Fry the cashews as well
Transfer some oil from it into another vessel
Fry the cinnamon, cardamom, cloves and pepper corns in the hot oil
Sauté the onions and add turmeric powder
Turn off the flame when the onions are done
Boil 4 glasses of coconut milk with curry leaves, salt and sautéed onion
Add the soaked basmati rice when the coconut milk begins to boil
Add 1 tsp lemon juice as well
Cook the rice on medium flame
Lower the flame when the coconut milk reduces and mixes with the rice
Cook for some more time on low flame
Garnish with fried onions and cashews.
