How to make Coconut Fried Rice

Coconut Fried Rice

I am going to take your fried rice to another level with my Coconut Fried Rice recipe. Come to think of it, looks like fried rice is now a daily meal or don’t you think so? These days every where I turn I see fried rice of different shapes and color. At parties, quick service restaurants and even buka.  But do you know the secret of good fried rice? It’s the frying. Sounds logical but most of the time what you get is savory rice.

In today’s recipe I will be showing you  time saving and preparation steps that will guarantee correct Coconut Fried Rice . For reasons of time saving I have chosen to use canned coconut milk but fresh coconut milk will do. I also used coconut oil for that extra flavor. I am using seafood as my protein but you can use any meats of your choice. When I am short on time I use seafood to cook as their cooking time is short. I think my other favorite protein option in this dish could be chicken breast because it also cooks fast.

The main difference in my recipe is cooking your coconut rice like a day before. So for example if you want to cook Coconut Fried Rice for Sunday lunch then you can boil rice in coconut milk a day before. I find that this helps the coconut flavor to be retained in the rice. This actually the way the Chinese recommend we make fried rice. Which is use previously cooked rice for fried rice. Another tip I have is to use frozen mixed vegetable if your are short on time. If you can chop your fresh vegetables a day before it also saves time. All you can do is to stir fry and refrigerate.

Now lets get into the kitchen and start cooking.

Recipe for Coconut Fried Rice

2 cups Rice

1 cup Coconut cream (about 1/2 can)

1 cup water

About 3 cooking spoons Coconut oil or vegetable oil

1 cup mixed Vegetables (frozen)

1/4 cup or less Green Bell Pepper

1/4 cup or less Red Bell Pepper

1 cup mixed Seafood or protein of choice

1/2 medium size white Onion (chopped)

Dry Pepper to taste

Chicken Seasoning to taste

Salt to taste

Method for making Coconut Fried Rice

1. Wash rice well to take out the surface starch. I will recommend to use warm water at this point .

2. Next pour coconut milk and water into a pot , add a little seasoning cube and the rice , stir cover and cook slowly . Like I mentioned earlier this is the stage you can prepare a day before and leave in the fridge. I will highly recommend this for a good out come of your rice. Actually what this does is that the rice has a better taste and coconut flavour. But be sure that you don’t boil the rice too soft and sticky

3. Heat very little oil in your frying pan, fry  little chopped onion, and salt or seasoning cube, dry pepper and stir fry the seafood till cooked. Take out and set aside

4. Into the same frying pan add your vegetables and also stir fry for just 2 minutes and set aside. The vegetables should remain crunchy in the dish

5. Next, add a little more oil to the pan, allow to heat up , add the remaining onion, seasoning and dry pepper if you wish. Fry the onion till translucent.

6. Finally add the rice and stir fry. Really this is the main step of the preparation so you have to take time to fry the rice. Keep on stirring and tossing until you hear some of the rice grains popping. When this happens you will notice that the rice changes from the whitish color to translucent. Your rice is ready.

7. Return the seafood and vegetables to the rice pot and  stir well into the rice for about 2 minutes and voila your Coconut Fried Rice is ready.