Food-Tips: Easy Food from Plant, The Coconut Rice Its Preparation and Nutritious Benefits

The coconut rice

The coconut Rice is a highly nutritious delicacies prepared and eaten world-wide, though the mode of preparation varies from place to place. In this article we shall be discussing the preparation of this delicacy the Nigerian way, a particular method that is used by the Urhobo tribe in Delta State. The preparation is pretty easy and a very quick food that can be prepared with little time. Please note that the main aim of this article is not solely to tell you or take you through the procedures of cooking this meal but also to let you the nutritious benefit of this meal.

Things You need to Prepare this meal

Coconut: Coconut is a natural plant that can be seen almost all around the world, it is very easy to get and relatively cheap

Rice: Its obvious that to cook a rice you must have a rice so getting a rice is very important to cooking this meal. While the other ingredients that is required to cook the food varies from place to place, the coconut and rice will always remain the same everywhere.
 
Seasoning: Choose from the variety of seasoning available for example in nigeria there is, Maggi, Knor, Onga, Mr Chef, Royco.
 
Salt: Salt is also an ingredient to be added in the food
 
Fish: fish is also needed in the preparation of this meal but if you don't like fish then you can use meat.
 
Meat: one also need meat in preparing this meal but if you are a vegetarian or you don't like meat then use fish but if you don't problem with neither meat nor fish then use both.
 
Pepper: Pepper is optional  you can use Red pepper of any other type of pepper depending on your area
 
Water: To boil the food you need water to cook the meal
 
Cray-fish: Just to add more taste you can add cray fish.

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Step to preparing the meal

To begin Grind the Coconut from its original state and turn it into a powder like state

Step1: Wash and Boil the Rice
Step2: After about 30 minutes of boiling put in the grinned coconut allow to boil for about 10 minutes
Step3:Put in your pepper
Step4: Add your Salt and Seasoning
Step5: Add your meat or fish add about two cups of water cover and allow to boil till its dried

Nutritious benefit of the coconut rice.

 For one thing the seasoning that is used today contains iodine and Vitamin A and these helps to prevent brain damage and blindness respectively. An article written in eatingwell made it clear that coconut might have an effect in cholesterol level “But while its predominant saturated fat —lauric acid—does raise beneficial HDL cholesterol, it also raises harmful LDL cholesterol, which can increase the risk of heart disease.” So this suggests that the oil from the coconut have its good use too. Another article from eatinwell also says "Coconut flour has health benefits for people with diabetes, too: adding coconut flour to baked goods lowers the glycemic index (a measure of the rate that a food increases blood sugar)". So try cooking a coconut rice and enjoy food from plant.

Do you have a different style of preparing the coconut rice in your area? please drop your comment below