This Coconut Rice, made in the South Indian style, is savory and delicious. It makes a nutritious meal for a rushed weeknight or a great brown bag lunch.
There’s a lot to love about Coconut Rice, a staple of South Indian cuisine. It’s savory and nutty and it has the delicious and sweet wholesomeness of coconut, a food that’s liberally eaten along Indian’s coastal regions and especially Tamil Nadu where this dish goes by the name of Thengai Saadam.
This is everyday food; food that you, if you lived in South India, might make for your family on a busy day and serve up with pickle and a poppadum on the side. It is also special food, as in it is usually what gets packed into lunchboxes for picnics and outings, or is served as one of the courses at a Tamil wedding.
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