Ingredients

• 1 cup - grated coconut
• 1 tsp - urad dal
• A few - dried red chillies
• Mustard seeds - 1/4 tsp
• Cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp
• Cloves - 3
• Pepper corns - 10
• Curry leaves - a few
• 2 pinches - asafoetida
• Salt
• 1 tbsp - butter
• Basmati rice - 2 cup, cooked

How to Make Coconut Fried Rice

• Spread the cooked rice in a wide plate to cool
• Heat butter in a deep pan and when it melts splutter mustard seeds and urad dal
• Cook till dal becomes golden brown. Then add cloves, split red chillies, pepper corns, cumin seeds, curry leaves, asafoetida.
• Finally add the grated coconut. Fry the coconut to light brown
• Mix rice to the fried mixture. Serve it with a little bit of ghee on the top