How To Make Shrimp Coconut Rice

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Ingredients:

• 2 Whole Coconuts
• 3 Cups rice
• 200g Fresh shrimp
• 1 Cup Meat stock (either chicken stock, beef stock or turkey stock)
• 2 Seasoning cubes
• Salt to taste
• 1 Green pepper
• 2 Carrots
• Spring onions
• 1 Red bell pepper or 4 chilies
• 1/2 Red Onion
• ½ Cup Vegetable Oil/ Butter

Direction
Step 1: 

• Wash and Chop carrots, spring onions, bell peppers into smaller bits. and  set aside.
• Rinse the rice with clean water and place in a pot. 
• Add just enough water to cover the rice in the pot and cook on medium heat for 10 mins till ( firm to the bite). 
• Transfer the rice into a separate bowl and run clean water through it. Set aside. 

Step 2: 

• Break the coconuts, remove the flesh and extract the milk 
• Pour the milk extract into a pot, 
• add the parboiled rice, meat stock, shrimps, seasoning(in case the meat seasoning is not enough) and salt to taste. 
• Cover the pot and leave the rice to cook for about 15 minutes till the liquid in the pot dries up.

Step 3: 

• While the rice cooks, 
• Add the chopped carrots, spring onions, bell peppers into smaller bits. 
• Pour the vegetable oil or melt the butter in a pan. 
• Add the chopped vegetables and stir-fry for 5 mins. 

Step 4: 

• By now the rice absorbed the coconut and stock liquid. 
• Add the stir-fried vegetables into the coconut rice and mix. 
• Leave to cook further for about 5 minutes more before turning off the burner.