Ingredients:
400 gms biryani rice
120gms coconut
40 ml ghee
25 gms black gram dal
25 gms broken pieces of cashew nuts
6 gms dry chillies
2 gms curry leaves
2.5 gms asofoetida powder
20 gms (minced) coriender leaves
Salt to taste
Directions:
1. Boil rice and keep aside.
2. Fry coconut to a golden colour.
3. Heat ghee and fry cashewnuts .
4. Fry the broken pieces of dry chillies, black gram dal, and curry leaves.
5. Mix rice, coconut, nuts, salt and ghee.
6. Serve hot and garnished with coriander leaves.

Lovely change for a side dish. What is asofoetida powder?
Hi Bobbi !
Asofoetida is resin from the giant fennel. An Indian spice.
Thanks Vina. Wishing you an awesome weekend. BAM
Thanks Bobbi ! wish you the same
This brings me back to family picnics in my childhood, yum!
Thank you !
love this!!
Thank you Terry !
You really have some very beautiful rice dishes. i love coconut but have never tried putting it with rice – very nice sounding combination.
Thank you! Give it a try, it’s delicious!
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Well, this is something we have in common: Coconut rice is very popular in my country, Panama. I have to post its recipe one of these days. I love your version, by the way
Thank you !!