HOW TO PREPARE COCONUT RICE
A little about the Nigerian Coconut Rice In Nigeria, we have coconut jollof rice , coconut fried rice, my vegetable coconut rice and then the ultimate Nigerian Coconut Rice. In this dish, coconut is the main ingredient, every other ingredient is there to enhance the flavour of coconut. If you use too little, it will taste bland. That being said, it is still a savoury dish so don’t go overboard with the coconut flavour or it will taste like a dessert. Coconut rice has the tendency to become soggy and burn, so you will need to adjust the cooking temperature at different times. You can use fresh whole coconut, canned coconut milk or coconut powder. If extracting milk from fresh coconut , use a mature coconut to get the full coconut flavour. If using coconut powder, then make coconut milk from the powdered coconut . Homemade Coconut milk from whole coconut I make my Nigerian Coconut Rice with a lot of onions, fresh pepper and tomatoes. I don’t fry the tomatoes, this
