Coconut rice comes from Thai origins, with a natural richness that still allows for fluffy rice and tons of flavour (if you make it right!) and a perfect compliment for many Asian dishes, including curry and sweet and sour foods!
It takes the same amount of time to make as regular jasmine rice and will add a lovely twist to your dinners or leftover lunches. Coconut milk is more mild than coconut water and coconut flakes, so don’t worry if you don’t like either those other two. The flavours are like night and day [read: coconut milk doesn’t taste like coconut, more like a creamy something]. ? Have fun with this by adding a variety of spices!
Recipes that go well with coconut rice:
Pineapple Chicken with Coconut Rice
Gluten Free Coconut Rice
For a flavour twist to your Asian inspired dishes or just on its own, coconut rich is creamy, light, and exceedingly delicious. It's so easy, it practically cooks on its own!
Ingredients
- 2 cups jasmine rice
- 1 can coconut milk approx. 400ml
- 1 1/2 cups water
- 1 tsp salt
- 1 tsp cane sugar (or regular granulated white sugar)
- 1 pinch lemongrass, cilantro, thyme or other spice optional, to taste
Instructions
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In a pot, rinse the jasmine rice several times until the water runs clear. Drain any excess water and add the coconut milk, water, salt and sugar. You can also cook this in a rice cooker though I find the texture gets a bit more baked in if you use the rice cooker with coconut milk. If using that, follow regular cooking for the rice cooker.
On high heat, allow the rice and liquids to boil. Once it starts to boil, turn the heat down to low and cook covered for 20 minutes. Keep stirring in the pot to ensure the rice doesn't just get burnt and stuck to the bottom.
Uncover and continue to cook for 5 minutes. Fluff and serve. Garnish with spices.
Recipe Notes
While long grain rice usually is cooked with a 2:1 liquid to rice grains ratio, jasmine rice needs less liquid and easily absorbs liquid to fluff up. The coconut milk is more dense than water so instead of possibly using 3.5 cups of liquid to rice, you just use 2 cups water, 1 cup coconut milk.
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