How To Cook Coconut Rice In Nigeria

Do you want to know how to cook coconut rice in Nigeria? Follow this detailed article.

But before anything, let’s first start with something slightly different, yet closely related to our topic. Love to know what that is? Follow us.

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Where Eating Coconut Rice Started From?

Have you ever thought about where eating of coconut rice started from? Where is coconut rice originally from?

According to our findings, there’s no clear origin of the coconut dish. However, it’s believed that the recipe is from culinary mixtures of African, indigenous, and Spanish dishes.

On the other hand, coconut is a sweet milky tropical fruit of the Caribbean and Pacific Zone. It is the major ingredient used to make coconut rice.

Coconut contains fiber and MCTs, as a result, it offers some health benefits. Improved heart health, weight loss, and digestion are some of them. Those are just a few of the health benefits coconut provides. Why are these important to you here?

Beyond the delicious coconut rice dish, you’ll also be enjoying the health benefits of the coconut (a major ingredient used to prepare the coconut rice) as well as other nutritional content the dish combines.

Let’s now take a closer look at the benefits of coconut rice.

What Is The Benefit of Coconut Rice?

Coconut rice majorly benefits your health. Just as we explained earlier, the presence of coconut gives it some healthy nutritional benefits.

Quickly, we’ll highlight 3 health benefits of coconut rice, right here before we proceed.

1. Controls Blood Pressure

Coconut milk in coconut rice is a potent remedy to deal with blood pressure. Even though it doesn’t do all the work, it lowers it and keeps it controlled.

Therefore, you don’t need expensive drugs to take care of your blood pressure level. Just make sure you eat the coconut rice regularly.

2. Helps To Lose Weight

Coconut rice has few calories and fats. Unlike other kinds of rice recipes which have more, coconut rice could help to reduce body fat and eventually weight.

Hence, if you’re heavyweight and you’re looking to slim down, consider switching to eating coconut rice regularly.

3. Deals With Constipation

The presence of antioxidants in coconut rice helps a lot to fight constipation. This implies that it facilitates digestion.

In addition, it becomes easy when emptying your bowels if you eat coconut rice.

Now that we’ve talked about the benefits of coconut rice, have you ever thought about how best coconut rice is eaten? It’s what we’d talk about next.

What Dish Goes With Coconut Rice?

There are side dishes you can serve the coconut rice with. Coconut rice would go nicely with steamed vegetables, carrots, and peas. Cabbage, boiled fish, and carrots could go with coconut rice too.

Here below is a list of 7 dishes you can serve with coconut rice.

1. Cabbage Slaw
2. Steamed Vegetables
3. Sliced Cucumber
4. Carrots & Pea Salad
5. Fried Vegetable
6. Chicken Curry
7. Fruit Salad

Right now, we’re set to focus on the main article.

How To Cook Coconut Rice In Nigeria (Easiest Method Revealed)

Want to learn how to cook coconut rice in Nigeria? We’ve revealed the easiest method you will master in a matter of minutes.

At times when you’re craving coconut rice, you can easily go on to cook it with confidence.

Recently, I was craving it and decided to make it. And I’m so happy I did because it tastes soo yummy! I used some leftover coconut milk I had in my kitchen and surprisingly it turned out amazing!

Normally, the first thing to do even before you boil the rice is to make your coconut extract. Coconut extract is the milk from the coconut.

Quickly let’s learn how to do that first following these simple steps.

Step 1: Crack and separate your coconut fruit from its shell. Scrape off every remain of coconut shell.

Step 2: Rinse and drain the coconut fruit then grate with a grater.

Step 3: Wrap the grated produce with a soft muslin cloth, then squeeze out its milky content into a bowl.

Step 4: Sieve the extracted milk to ensure you have just liquid milk.

Having done these, you’ve gotten ready for your undiluted coconut milk.

The next thing to do is to increase your milk by diluting it.

Again, do that by following these simple steps below.

Step 1: Figure out how much more milk you need to add to the undiluted milk you have.

Step 2: Boil the exact quantity of hot water you need (you’ll add it to the undiluted one afterward).

Step 3: Add the hot water to the reserved coconut fruit. Let it soak for a minute.

Step 4: Squeeze the grated coconut fruit in a cheesecloth and squeeze out the milk into a bowl.

Step 5: Extract the milk through a sieve and add to the undiluted milk.

There you have the diluted coconut milk to use in your recipes.

Now, it’s time to get on with the preparation of the rice.

Ingredients you’d need to prepare coconut rice to include:

1. 2 tablespoon coconut oil (or groundnut oil)
2. 1 cup diced red onions
3. ½ tablespoon ground red pepper
4. ½ tablespoon curry
5. ½ tablespoon oregano
6. ½ tablespoon salt
7. 2 Maggi cubes
8. ⅛ cup crayfish blended
9. 3 habanero peppers (chopped)
10. 1 cup sweet peppers (chopped)
11. 2 cups of coconut milk
12. 1 ½ cup long grain parboiled rice thoroughly washed

With all of the above ingredients ready, these basic steps below will help you successfully cook coconut rice.

Basic Steps On How To Cook Coconut Rice In Nigeria

Step 1: Pour oil into a medium-sized pot and heat it up on medium heat.

Step 2: Pour your onions into it and fry till their redness fades off.

Step 3: Add crayfish, peppers, curry, habanero peppers, salt, oregano, Maggi cubes, and sweet peppers and stir for about 5 mins.

Step 4: Add the coconut milk and stir with other ingredients.

Step 5: Pour in your rice and cook for 45 minutes on medium heat.

Following these steps, your coconut rice is ready to be served just as stated.

Final Notes

There you have everything you need to know on how to cook coconut rice in Nigeria. You don’t need to start looking to attend that event where you can’t get coconut rice to eat! 😀 Only follow this article carefully and prepare the coconut rice from the comfort of your home!

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