Toasted Coconut Yellow Rice for Rice Cookers

Pulled together from several recipes, my family loved the adjustments I made, so I'm sharing with you. Goes great with seafood or poultry dishes. I hope you like it.

• Preparation Time: 10 mins
• Cooking Time: 35 mins
• Total Time: 45 mins
• Calories: 277 Calories

Ingredients

• 1 ¼ cups water
• ½ teaspoon kosher salt
• 1 (14 ounce) can coconut milk
• 1 teaspoon ground turmeric
• 2 cups white rice, thoroughly rinsed
• ¼ cup sweetened flaked coconut, divided

Recipe Instructions

Step 1

Put rinsed rice into the pan of a rice cooker.

Step 2

Stir coconut milk, water, about half of the coconut, turmeric, and salt together in a small saucepan and place over medium-high heat; cook until the turmeric is completely dissolved into the milk mixture and the color is even. Pour the coconut milk mixture over the rice.

Step 3

Press Start and cook until the cycle completes and shifts to the Warm cycle, about 22 minutes. Leave rice on Warm for another 5 minutes.

Step 4

Heat a small skillet over medium-high heat. Toast remaining coconut in hot skillet until golden brown, about 5 minutes.

Step 5

Fluff cooked rice. Sprinkle toasted coconut over the rice.