My Low Budget Coconut Rice.

You do not need to have much money before you cook delicious coconut rice. I have been on a tight budget due to some commitments I made which have taken a greater part of my money. I was craving rice, so when I looked at my kitchen cabinet, I discovered that I didn't have any ingredients to cook the quantity of rice I had at home. Although I had one coconut, I decided to prepare a low-budget coconut rice.

Coconut Rice is one of the recipes that can be cooked with a nice taste even with fewer ingredients. It will still come out nice if you know what you are doing. So come with me. Let me put you through how to make delicious coconut rice even when you are on a tight budget.

I may not know the origin of coconut rice but I think that most African homes cook coconut rice. Most restaurants in my locality also sell coconut rice; hence, I believe that it emanates from Africa. Whatever the case, anywhere you are around the world, you can as well try out this delicious food.

INGREDIENTS
Two cups Rice
One ball of mature coconut
Pepper
Onions
Seasoning
Salt
Crayfish
Dried or smoked fish
Water

With the following ingredients above, you're set on having delicious coconut rice.

PROCEDURE
The procedure is quite simple. Just follow the steps below

1. Break your coconut into small pieces
   Take it off the shell

2. Blend it; in my case, I didn't have a blender, so I used a crater to blend it.

1. After blending it, I had to use warm water on the blended coconut to have a complete extraction of the coconut juice.

1. I sieved the blended coconut using my sieve. I then segregated the chaff from the coconut juice

2. I parboiled the rice till it began to soften.

1. I then sieved the rice and turned it into my pot.

2. I poured in my extracted coconut juice according to the quantity that will cook the rice till it is done.

1. I put in my ingredients, namely, seasoning, onion, salt, fish and crayfish. However, I do not always like using crayfish because it usually beats down the aroma of the coconut.

2. I stirred everything

3. I set my fire and placed the pot of rice on it

4. I let it cook till the water dried up.

That was how I gave myself delicious coconut rice.
You can try it at home, using my simple procedures. Would you give it a try?