After taking a break from last week’s Blogging Marathon, I am now back with ‘Recipes from Goa’ this week.
I was out of ideas for this theme and I tried Priya’s Goan Egg Drop curry first. I made the gravy, I dropped the eggs in the gravy and I went on mixing it. So it finally became an egg burji (scrambled egg) curry. It tasted really good, even if it wasn’t really photogenic.
The next trial was Pradnya’s Coconut rice. Now this, though it tasted good and had a wonderful aroma, turned out to be a bit oily for me. I have no idea where I messed it up this time! But yet, this is a simple recipe to prepare and had this nice and mild flavor of coconut milk. It would pair really well with any spicy curry. Its a good lunch box recipe without any overwhelming flavors.
So here it is, a simple coconut rice from the State of Goa, served for the third week of Blogging Marathon. Check out this page for entrees from other participating bloggers.
Recipe Source: The Pumpkin Farm
Serves: 2
Ingredients:
- Basmati Rice : 1 cup
- Coconut Milk : 2 cups
- Cinnamon : 1″ piece
- Cloves : 2
- Onion : 1, sliced thin
- Cashews : 1 tbsp
- Whole black pepper : 1 tsp
- Oil : 1 tbsp
Method:
- Wash and clean the rice. Soak it and leave it aside for 10 minutes.
- Heat oil in a pan, add the cashews, cloves, cinnamon, pepper. Stir fry for a minute till the cashews turn brown. Brown, not black!!
- Add the onions and saute till pink. Drain the rice and add to the onion mix and fry for a minute or two.
- Add coconut milk, stirring all the while and cover and cook till rice is done. I usually move it to a rice cooker at this stage.
- Serve with any spicy side dish.
My Kitchen Trials 
Such a simple and flavorful rice dish.. Texture of the rice has come out perfect.
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Wow a second one in a row. Rice looks perfectly cooked. Yummy!
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Looks delicious Rajani. Even I tried it out and it was a hit at home…
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This is the second coconut rice for today,saw the recipe in Gayathri’s blog…looks tempting and an easy to make one pot meal…the rice got a lovely color..
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Just saw the Goan coconut rice in Gayathri’s blog! Now we really know that this is one of the famous Goan recipe indeed! Lovely clicks!
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Seems this is one of the popular rice in goa.
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I have chosen this theme for next week and had an idea to post this..yours looks tempting and inviting..
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Yummy coconut rice. Nice click too
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Goan Rice…ya they should be tried..Goan Cuisine seems to be full of flavors..and good you tried the rice, they really are inviting..the first click is really good.
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Beautiful clicks.. Loved the rice.. it looks really full of flavors..
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Looks very yum and the aroma of coconut milk must be sure mesmerizing!!!
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delicious and simple rice… so perfect for lunchbox…
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you are always great at photo styling. this seems to be a fave dish for the goan theme
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Very neat presentation for a flavorful rice!
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Oops! I meant top restaurant!
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Looks very very attractive and as If it’s been served at some to restaurant!
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Just crossed a coconut rice at Gayathri’s space too, love the pleasant colour of this rice, oh no egg burji, actually you should mix the eggs Rajani,however thanks for trying.
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I love the color that the rice has. I guess it is because of the whole spices. Lovely
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Another version of coconut rice!!Love the pic!!
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Just now saw another version of this rice in Gayathri’s blog! This sounds delicious as well.I too am doing this theme but I never found this rice when I was searching for Goan recipes!
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Simple but yet should be a flavorful one with coconut milk.
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Coconut rice seems to be the fav of a lot of veggie bloggers in this Goan theme :-) simple and nice one pot meal.. clean and lovely pics as usual, Rajani…
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