This creamy Coconut Rice is a great side dish to serve alongside your favorite Caribbean recipes like Jamaican Jerk Chicken.
Creamy Coconut Rice is delicious. Long grain white rice is cooked in coconut milk and will absorb the flavors of coconut milk and delight the taste buds.
It is a creamy rice side dish that will balance the flavors of your favorite spicy Caribbean or Jamaican recipes like jerk chicken.
Coconut Rice will cool the fires of a spicy jerk chicken recipe.
How To Make Perfect White Rice
If you have never been able to make perfect white rice and are wondering if you should even attempt to make Coconut Rice. I can help you.
Take a look at how I make perfect white rice every time.
I shared all of my tips and tricks when I shared my Crock Pot Stuffed Bell Peppers recipe.
It took me many rice fails before I figured out how to make perfect white rice.
But once you master making perfect white rice you will never have to serve undercooked or overcooked white rice again.
Making Coconut Rice is the same as making plain long grain white rice.
You can practice with a pot or two of plain white rice if you need to master making perfect white rice first.
What Goes Well With Coconut Rice?
Coconut Rice is delicious served with many of your favorite Indian, Caribbean, and Indonesian recipes.
But you don't have to limit yourself to exotic recipes if you don't normally eat them. You can serve Coconut Rice with many of your favorite chicken recipes.
Crock Pot Pineapple Chicken would be delicious served over a bed of Coconut Rice.
Or my favorite Crock Pot Jamaican Jerk Chicken.
How To Make Creamy Coconut Rice
Ingredients
- 1 cup long grain rice, rinsed well
- 1 ½ cups water
- ½ cup coconut milk
- 1 can black beans, rinsed well (optional)
Directions
- Place the long grain white rice in a fine mesh strainer. Rinse the white rice well under cold water until water runs clear.
- In a medium saucepan bring 1 ½ cups of water to a boil.
- Add the rinsed long grain white rice to the boiling water and stir once with a spoon to break the rice up. Return to a rapid boil then cover the saucepan with a tightfitting lid.
- Reduce the heat to low and simmer until water is almost completely evaporated.
- Once the water has almost evaporated add the ½ cup of coconut milk to the saucepan, replace the lid and continue to simmer until the rice is tender.
- Once the coconut rice is done remove the saucepan from the heat and add 1 cup of black beans to the rice.
- Stir the beans into the rice and replace the lid, place the saucepan back onto the hot burner and heat until the beans are warmed.
- Heat remaining black beans in a separate pot and serve alongside Crock Pot Jamaican Jerk Chicken.
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Coconut Rice Recipe
Ingredients
- 1 cup long grain rice rinsed well
- 1 ½ cups water
- ½ cup coconut milk
- 1 can black beans rinsed and divided
Instructions
- Place the long grain white rice in a fine mesh strainer. Rinse the white rice well under cold water until water runs clear.
- In a medium saucepan bring 1 ½ cups of water to a boil.
- Add the rinsed long grain white rice to the boiling water and stir once with a spoon to break the rice up. Return to a rapid boil then cover the saucepan with a tightfitting lid.
- Reduce the heat to low and simmer until water is almost completely evaporated.
- Once the water has almost evaporated add the ½ cup of coconut milk to the saucepan, replace the lid and continue to simmer until the rice is tender.
- Once the coconut rice is done remove the saucepan from the heat and add 1 cup of black beans to the rice.
- Stir the beans into the rice and replace the lid, place the saucepan back onto the hot burner and heat until the beans are warmed.
- Heat remaining black beans in a separate pot and serve alongside Crock Pot Jamaican Jerk Chicken.
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