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Coconut rice

Rice cooked in coconut milk. Sweet, plain, and quietly excellent.

Coconut rice
Photo: Gunawan Kartapranata, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. A photo of the dish, not of these exact recipes.

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How to make coconut rice

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Cooked in the tin

25 minutes · serves 4 · Very easy

What you need

  • 300g jasmine rice
  • 1 tin coconut milk
  • 200ml water
  • 1 tsp salt
  • 1 tsp sugar

What you do

  1. 1Rinse the rice three times, until the water is nearly clear.
  2. 2Everything in a pan, brought to a bare simmer.
  3. 3Lid on, lowest heat, 12 minutes. Do not lift the lid.
  4. 4Off the heat, still covered, 10 minutes more. Then fork it through.

The Southeast Asian one

30 minutes · serves 4 · Easy

What you need

  • 300g rice
  • 1 tin coconut milk
  • 200ml water
  • 2 pandan leaves, knotted
  • 1 tsp salt

What you do

  1. 1Rinse the rice and put it in the pan with everything else, pandan on top.
  2. 2Simmer covered 12 minutes, then rest 10 off the heat.
  3. 3Pull the pandan out and fluff. It should smell like a bakery.