Steps to Make Award-winning Thengai sadam/coconut rice

Hello everybody, hope you’re having an amazing day today. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a distinctive dish, thengai sadam/coconut rice. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

Coconut rice is an easy and flavorful rice dish made with fresh grated coconut, tempering spices, curry leaves and rice. It is one of the most basic South Indian foods made for a meal during festivals and It is also known as Thengai sadam and kobbari annam in the South Indian regional languages. There are so many ways to flavor rice and today we're featuring coconut! This Coconut Rice recipe (Thengai Sadam in Tamil) can be made with fresh rice or is.

Thengai sadam/coconut rice is one of the most popular of recent trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions every day. They’re fine and they look fantastic. Thengai sadam/coconut rice is something that I’ve loved my whole life.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have thengai sadam/coconut rice using 13 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Thengai sadam/coconut rice:

1. Make ready 1 cup cooked rice
2. Make ready 1/2 cup grated fresh coconut
3. Make ready 1 tbsp coconut oil
4. Get 1 tsp mustard seeds
5. Prepare 1 tsp cumin seeds
6. Make ready 1 tsp chana dal
7. Make ready 1 tsp urad dal
8. Get 1 green chilli chopped
9. Get 2 whole red chilli
10. Take 9-10 cashew nuts
11. Get 1 pinch hing
12. Prepare 5-6 curry leaves
13. Get to taste Salt

An ideal dish for lunch box,which i normally prepare once a week. When it is done add it on the top of the rice. Add the ghee in the same kadai and fry the scrapped coconut till golden brown. Today, I prepared South Indian style coconut rice for lunch.

Instructions to make Thengai sadam/coconut rice:

1. Heat 1tbsp coconut oil in a wide pan over medium heat.
2. Add 1tsp mustard seeds,1tsp cumin seeds,5-6 curry leaves,1 tsp urad dal,1tsp chana dal,a pinch of hing to hot oil.
3. When seeds starts spluttering add chopped green chilli,2 whole red chilli,9-10 cashew nuts and fry till cashew turns lightly brown.
4. Add 1/2 cup grated coconut and cook for 2-3 minutes,until coconut turns light brown.
5. Now add salt to taste and cooked rice to the mixture.
6. Mix everything together.
7. Serve the coconut rice hot with rasam or curd.

Add the ghee in the same kadai and fry the scrapped coconut till golden brown. Today, I prepared South Indian style coconut rice for lunch. It was quick to prepare and I had time to attend few odd jobs before Nehal returned home from school. This Coconut Rice recipe (Thengai Sadam in Tamil) can be made with fresh rice or is a perfect way to use of leftover rice. Thengai sadam is a very easy rice variety prepared with fresh grated coconut, tempered with chilli and dal(s).

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