Coconut rice

Ingredients

• cooked rice                                                        1cup
• coconut scraped                                                 half a coconut
• green chilli                                                          2
• red chilli                                                             2
• curry leaves                                                        few
• salt                                                                    To taste

Seasoning

• mustard seeds                                                  1tbs
• kadalai paruppu or channa dal                          2tbs

Method

• cook rice in the rice cooker and spread it on a plate to cool and add few spoons of oil.
• heat oil in a pan,add mustard seeds and channa dal,green and red chillies and asafoetida.
• add the scraped coconut,curry leaves and switch off the gas.fry it till the heat is on.
• when it cools down add the rice,salt and mix well.serve with fried urad papad.

It comes under the category of kalanda sadam and it is made on a lot of occassions and it is a part of festival menu.It is made on chitra pournami,kannu pandigai(next day after pongal)