Hello everybody, I hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a distinctive dish, thengai sadam/coconut rice. One of my favorites. For mine, I am going to make it a little bit tasty. This will be really delicious.

Coconut rice is one of South Indian's favorite rice dishes made often for quick lunch or lunch box or festive meals. 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 is quick, it tastes delicious. It’s appreciated by millions every day. 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:

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

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. Thengai Sadam or Coconut rice is a simple and delicious South Indian style variety rice recipe with coconut and nuts. When it comes to "variety rice" recipes or the kalanda sadam, as we say in Tamil, coconut rice tops the chart along with tamarind rice and lemon rice.

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.

Thengai sadam/Coconut rice is Sendhil's favourite rice variety. 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.

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