Coconut Milk Rice Recipe for Babies, Toddlers and Kids
Coconut Milk Rice- A one pot meal made with rice,coconut milk and ghee. Nutritious lunch/dinner for kids.
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Ingredients
- Rice - 1 cup
- Big Onion - 1 medium sized
- Green chili - 1
- Ginger garlic paste- 1 tbsp
- Chopped Vegetables* -½ cup
- Coconut Milk - 1.5 cups
- Salt - as required
To temper
- Ghee- 2 tbsp
- Bay leaves - 1
- Cloves -2
- Cinnamon - a small piece
- cumin seeds - ½ tsp
- Cashews - 1.5 tbsp
- * I have used carrots beans and green peas
Instructions
- Extract coconut milk from grated coconut. Wash and chop all vegetables(if using) into cubes. Slice onions finely. Slit green chilies. Set aside. Wash rice in running water 2-3 times and soak it in water for 20 minutes.
- Heat a pressure cooker with ghee. Add bay leaves,cloves, cinnamon and cumin seeds. Let cumin seeds crackle. Then add cashews and fry them until golden brown.
- Now add in chopped onions along with ginger garlic paste & green chilli. Saute them nicely until golden brown.Once onions becomes transparent , add chopped vegetables and toss them nicely for 3 minutes.
- Add soaked rice and give a quick stir. Then add coconut milk.
- Mix well, add required salt at this stage. Bring it to a boil. Then close the lid of pressure cooker and cook everything in a medium flame for three whistles. Once the pressure releases, open the cooker and fluff the rice with a spoon slowly, top with more ghee if required.
Nutrition
Serving: 3g