Coconut Rice

Ingredients:

• 1 cup rice
• 1/2 coconut- grated (scraped)
• 1 tbsp oil
• 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
• Salt to taste
• A pinch of hing (asafoetida)
• 2 dry red chillies
• 2 tsp urad dal (split black gram)
• 1 tbsp cashew nuts

Method:

• Cook rice and set aside to cool.
• Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds, hing, dry red chillies, urad dal and cashew nuts.
• When mustard seeds start spluttering, add coconut and sauté till golden brown. Add salt. Mix this with rice and serve hot coconut rice with poppadums (papads).