Lemon Rice With Coconut Chutney Food

LEMON RICE WITH COCONUT

Steps:

• Finely chop the onion and crush the garlic. Rinse the rice well, four or five times until the water is clear.
• Heat the sunflower oil on medium-high heat. When the oil is hot, add the onion and garlic. Stir regularly for five minutes.
• Zest and juice the lemon.
• Add the lemon rind, coconut, ground cilantro and turmeric to the pan. Stir for approximately three minutes until the coconut is light brown and toasted.
• Add the rice and mix well until evenly coated.
• Add the water, crushed stock cube, and mix again. Place the lid on the pot and turn up the heat to high. When you hear the water start to boil, turn the heat down to the minimum and leave it for 15 minutes.
• Take off the boil, remove the lid and quickly stir in 2-3 tablespoons of lemon juice, replace the lid and leave for 10 minutes to rest.
• Take off the lid, fluff up the rice with a fork, and add in the chopped cilantro if using. Stir, check for salt and lemon juice and adjust to taste, then serve.

LEMON RICE WITH COCONUT CHUTNEY

Steps:

• Lemon Rice: Cook the rice with required amount of salt and cool.
• The grains should be separate.
• In a wok heat the oil.
• When hot, put in the mustard seeds and lower the heat.
• When the seeds splutter, put in the roasted, peanuts, the turmeric powder and cayenne pepper powder.
• Take off the heat.
• Add the cooled rice.
• When cool, add the juice of two lemons.
• Adjust the amount of lemon juice depending upon the size of lemons and the sourness required and stir carefully so as not to break the rice grains.
• Serve with coconut chutney, mint chutney, tomato ketchup and potato crisps.
• Coconut Chutney: Grind all ingredients together with a enough water to form a paste.
• In a small wok, heat 2 tsps of cooking oil, add 1 tsp of mustard seeds.
• When the seeds splutter, take off heat and pour over coconut paste.
• Add salt to taste.
• Serve with the Lemon Rice.

TANGY LEMON RICE WITH PEANUTS

Steps:

• Heat oil in a frying pan on medium heat and add mustard seeds and urad dal.
• When mustard starts to splutter, add turmeric powder, chopped chilli, asafoetida, and peanuts.
• Saute for about 2 minutes.
• Then add cooked rice and salt and saute for another 5 minutes.
• Remove from flame, add lemon juice and mix well.
• Garnish with chopped corriander and serve!
• Note: If you don't have cooked rice on hand, cook 1/4 cup of rice in a pressure cooker, or with about 1/2 to 2/3 cup water in a pot; allow it to cool well before using it in the recipe, since warm rice will tend to clump together in the mixture.

LEMON RICE

Steps:

• In a medium saucepan, bring water, broth, lemon juice and butter to a boil. Stir in rice, basil and lemon zest. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 20 minutes. Let stand 5 minutes or until the water is absorbed. Before serving, sprinkle with lemon-pepper.

LEMONGRASS-SCENTED COCONUT RICE

Steps:

• 1. Place the rice in a 1-1/2- or 2-quart saucepan. Fill the pot halfway with cold water. If any rice hulls or small twigs float to the surface, scoop them aside with your hand and discard them. Gently swirl your fingers through the rice until the water becomes cloudy with the rice's surface starch, about 20 seconds. Be careful not to massage the rice aggressively-you don't want to crack or break the grains. Allow the rice to settle for a few seconds. Tilt the pot over a sink and drain out all the water, cupping the rice with your hand to prevent it from spilling out of the pot. Repeat this process with three more changes of water. The water after the first 2 rinses will be quite cloudy; by the fourth rinse, it will be much less so. The water need not run completely clear by the final rinse-slightly cloudy is fine. Leave the rinsed rice in the pot.
• 2. To the rinsed rice, add the tied lemongrass, the cooking water, the coconut milk, the salt, and the daun salam leaves (if using). Stir well to combine, making sure that the lemongrass stalks and daun salam leaves are submerged in as much of the rice as possible.
• 3. Place the pot over high heat and, stirring constantly with a large spoon to prevent the rice at the bottom of the pot from scorching or burning, bring the liquid to a rolling, noisy boil. Allow the rice to boil vigorously for fifteen seconds, continuing to stir constantly. (It's essential that you stir constantly, otherwise the fats and proteins in the coconut milk will cause the rice at the bottom of the pot to become gummy and stick together, which will ultimately lead to the final dish having a scorched or burned bottom layer.) Immediately reduce the heat to the lowest possible setting and cover the pot tightly with the lid. Continue cooking for 15 minutes. Don't be tempted to lift or remove the lid during this time-you'll lose essential cooking steam if you do.
• 4. Remove the pot from the heat and allow the rice to continue to steam, covered, away from the heat for an additional 10 minutes.
• 5. Open the pot and discard the lemongrass and daun salam leaves. Fold the rice over gently with a spoon, distributing the aromatic flavors which may be concentrated in pockets in the rice. Transfer the rice to a deep serving bowl, fluffing it gently with a fork and lifting it into a high, peaked mound. Serve hot or warm. (If serving the rice warm, keep it covered with aluminum foil until then.)