Coconut rice is a typical dish from the coast of Colombia and is simply delicious! Serve it with fish or any other type of seafood.
INGREDIENTS
(4 SERVINGS)
2 Cups long grain rice
4 Cups coconut milk
2 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon salt
DIRECTIONS
1. Place the rice in a small pot, add the coconut milk, sugar and salt.
2. Bring to a boil over medium high-heat. Stir once, cover and reduce heat to low, cook for 20 minutes. Do not remove the cover. Remove the pot from the heat and let it seat for 5 minutes. Fluff the rice using a fork and serve immediately.
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This sounds wonderful! I bet the bit of sweetness is great with spicy dishes.
Have all the ingredients in the cupboard and cant wait to try this one. Thanks.
Maggie, The coconut milk adds a wonderful flavor to the rice,perfect with spicy dishes.
I cut the recipe in half and it served 4. I also went a tad shy on the sugar and it was still sweet enough. It went great with our steak and aji. Definately the type of rice to have with a spicy dish.
Hi Raquel,
Thank you for the feedback!
I’m not trying to be rude or anything. I just want to be clear about this. But from my many travels to colombia..in fact i just got back from an excursion going to Cartagena, Barranquilla, Santa Marta, and Tayarona….your recipe is nothing like colombian coconut rice. It looks more like asian coconut rice which is totally different. Colombian coconut rice is always dirty brown in color (and sometimes has raisins) and never white.
Colombia Traveler,
If you read my recipe list well, you will notice the brown coconut rice with raisins too. My sister lives in Cartagena and this is one of the every day side dishes in her house and you can find this rice recipe in some Colombian traditional recipe books.This rice is popular in both coasts the Pacific and Caribbean. If you read the book “Secrets of Colombian cooking” by Patricia McCausland-Gallo a Colombia chef, born in the Caribbean coast of Colombia , you can find this rice dish in her book. It is a great book with traditional Colombian recipes in English.
Thank you for your comment!
Looks delicious and cooking it right now. I’d rather take recipes from local then people that have just visited a country. So ignore Columbiantraveler.
I just spent a wonderful week near Tayrona staying with some local families, and all my dishes were served with coconut rice that was white. Being Korean and enjoying lots of southeast asian cuisine, it was a bit more subtle than Asian coconut rice. In addition, it seemed like they added a few bits of color – perhaps a few grains of brown rice and maybe a few shreds of carrots to give a nice look. It was a good compliment to Polla Sudado.
I just recently found this recipe, and it sounds great! I just have a question regarding the coconut milk…is that different from coconut water? And where can I find it? I scoured a local grocery store and had no luck. Any help you can offer would be great!
Vero- You can find canned coconut at your local market (Latin aisle or Asian aisle).
You can also make coconut milk which is preferable with this dish. Its very simple just search it
@colombian traveller and @Erica: This white coconut rice is an everyday dish indeed. I agree with Erica as in Monteria my hometown we have it every single day and it is also very popular in the countryside. The brownish one is also a coconut rice but because is more elaborated we mostly do it for special ocasions or when in the mood!
. The brownish one is made in a different way. Best regards.
For an amuse bouche, I like to place a sauteed sea scallop on a small lump of coconut rice (I use jasmine rice) then drizzle w/ saffron-scented fresh lemon juice.
Hi! I just found this recipe and I wanted to thank you for it. We needed a traditional Colombian dish to bring in for school and this will help so much with preparing it. Can’t wait to try it.
this recipe helped me ace a spanish culture and food assignment thanks
Samara I’d. Like to talk to you, I lived in. Monteria myself, is rare to find someone from there, making arroz con coco as we speak
The brown in real colombian coconut rice is from the carmalization of the coconutsolids in the coconut oil that seperates. This recipe without the right method is not the colombian way.
MiMayo- We have two kinds of coconut rice in Colombia “White Coconut Rice” and “Brown Coconut Rice” Here is the recipe from my site: http://www.mycolombianrecipes.com/rice-with-coconut-and-raisins-arroz-con-coco-y-pasas. White coconut rice is serve all over the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts of Colombia!
My family is from barranquilla, and as far as I know the white style is how its done in cartagena, although we’ve found both styles in cartagena from vacationing there. In barranquilla I only know the brown style never the white. Also inthe browned coconut recipe u need to fry up ur rice a little more, it usually looks chalk colored withbits of black/dark brown.
I am from Cartagena and my mom makes white coconut rice all the time. It is very popular. I grew up eating this rice as a side dish for our seafood dishes.
Hi dear! I am colombian from the caribbean coast, and the actual recepy for coconut rice is a little bit diferent than the one you offer here.
Ingredients are ok but make sure if is possible to get the cocunut milk directly from a coconut (The flavor is better ). once you do that, you start frying the milk till it becomes thick (add brown sugar so you can give the rice itcharacteristic golden color). After the coconut mil is thick add more cocunut milk and a water, the you add the rice and the salt (For each 2 spoons of sugar add a small one with salt). You wait until its dry and voila! you got the original recepy.
Besos.
I am from the Pacific coast of Colombia and this is the way my mom and my grandmother make the” arroz coco blanco”. I think that every family has a different way to make it around the country.
My name is Doris and I am from Cartagena de Indias. I made this rice yesterday and it was the same rice my nana used to make for my family. She used fresh coconut milk, but the flavor was very similar. Thank you.
Hi I’m from Bogota Colombia and we make the Coconut Rice with raisins