Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a special dish, thengai sadam/coconut rice. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I’m gonna make it a little bit tasty. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Coconut rice is one of South Indian's favorite rice dishes made often for quick lunch or lunch box or festive meals. Thengai sadam, coconut rice is a simple south Indian variety rice with a burst of flavors from fresh coconut and coconut oil. Learn how to make thengai sadam with goodness of urad dal.
Thengai sadam/coconut rice is one of the most favored of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it’s quick, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions daily. They are nice and they look fantastic. Thengai sadam/coconut rice is something which I’ve loved my whole life.
To begin with this 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:
- Get 1 cup cooked rice
- Take 1/2 cup grated fresh coconut
- Get 1 tbsp coconut oil
- Prepare 1 tsp mustard seeds
- Prepare 1 tsp cumin seeds
- Prepare 1 tsp chana dal
- Make ready 1 tsp urad dal
- Take 1 green chilli chopped
- Get 2 whole red chilli
- Get 9-10 cashew nuts
- Make ready 1 pinch hing
- Take 5-6 curry leaves
- Get to taste Salt
Thengai Sadam or Coconut rice is a simple and delicious South Indian style variety rice recipe with coconut and nuts. Thengai means coconut, and sadam means rice in Tamil, hence the name coconut rice. Like lemon rice, it is relatively easy to make. Thengai sadam/Coconut rice is Sendhil's favourite rice variety.
Instructions to make Thengai sadam/coconut rice:
- Heat 1tbsp coconut oil in a wide pan over medium heat.
- 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.
- When seeds starts spluttering add chopped green chilli,2 whole red chilli,9-10 cashew nuts and fry till cashew turns lightly brown.
- Add 1/2 cup grated coconut and cook for 2-3 minutes,until coconut turns light brown.
- Now add salt to taste and cooked rice to the mixture.
- Mix everything together.
- Serve the coconut rice hot with rasam or curd.
I am not a big fan of this rice. So I make this only for my husband. Its very easy to make and very flavourful too. My Mom & MIL makes it very well. They make in a slightly different way.
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