Aug 7, 2006

Coconut Milk Rice & Pakora Kurma




Coconut Milk Rice:
Ingredients:
Basmati Rice-3cups (wash & soak in water)
Coconutmilk-3cups or 1tin
Cashewnuts-6nos
Cardamom-2nos
Cinnamon-1stick
Cloves-3nos
Bayleaf-2
Onion –1/2 sliced
Ginger garlic paste-1tsp
Garlic flakes-6 peeled
Salt to taste
Ghee/oil-3tbsp
Water-3cups
Method: heat ghee in a rice cooker add bay leaf, cinnamon, cardamom, cloves& let it splutter. Then add cashew nuts & fry till they turn golden color Then add sliced onions fry well add ginger garlic paste & fry for 1mt. Add rice salt mix well then add garlic &mix.Now add 3cups coconut milk & 3cups water. Cover & let cook.
Pakora kurma:
Kurma:
Onions-sliced-1/4cup
Onions-chopped2tbsp
Green chillis-8nos
Ginger garlic paste-1tbsp
Garam masala powder-1tsp
Turmeric-1/4tsp
Grated coconut-2tbsp
Feenel seeds(souf)-1/2tsp
Tomato-1/2chopped
Salt to taste
Fry onions & green chills in oil & make a paste of onions, green chilies &ginger garlic paste. Keep aside Make a paste of coconut & feenel Now heat oil & add chopped onions & fry. Then add the ground onion paste & fry well Add coconut paste, turmeric powder & garam masala powder & mix wellAdd tomatoes salt & water, cover & cook for about 5-10mts.
Pakora: Bengal gram dal-1cup (soak in water for abt 2hrs)
Onions-chopped1/2cup
Garlic flakes-2nos
Green chilli-3
Fennel seed-1/4tsp
Salt to taste
Oil-deep frying
Grind together chena dhal, garlic flakes, green chillis, &fennel seeds coarsely Mix the mixture with onions & salt. Heat oil in a kadai & drop the mixture with spoon into the oil & fry. Put the fried pakoras in the kurma directly. Serve with rice or roti.

2 comments:

Prema Sundar said...

Pakoda kurma sounds interesting... havent tasted it.. thanks for the recipe

Anonymous said...

Hi Radhika,
Tried ur coconut milk rice. It turned out really good. Adding the garlic cloves made all the difference. Tried that with Chana masala( no time to prepare the pakora kurma :))
Thanks for the recipe. Will try next time with country mutton stew or your chicken masala curry.