Kobbari Annam & Aloo Kurma - Coconut Rice & Potato Curry
During weekends, I like to prepare elaborate or special meals. One of my best-loved meals is a coconut flavored aromatic rice with a creamy potato curry - Kobbari annam and Aloo kurma. The combination of flavors, the richness, sweetness and aroma makes the meal immensely flavorful and deeply satisfying. The fragrant coconut rice is rich and marginally sweet with green chillis adding a touch of spice. The creamy Aloo kurma is lightly spiced and a paste made of poppy seeds and coconut provides depth, texture and taste to the curry. A delectable combination that can be rustled up in under an hour!
Kobbari Annam Recipe
Recipe source: Amma
Prep & Cooking: 30 mts
Serves 4-5 persons
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2 cups raw rice
4 cups coconut milk
salt to taste
1/4 tsp turmeric pwd (optional)
8-9 garlic cloves, finely sliced OR 1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
4-5 slit green chillis
2 onions, finely sliced
1″ cinnamom stick (2 pieces)
2 cloves
2 elachis
1-2 bay leaf
1 tbsp ghee + 1/2 tbsp oil
1 Heat ghee and oil in a cooking vessel on medium heat, add the cinnamom stick, cloves, elachi and bay leaf and fry for a few seconds. Add sliced garlic and fry for half a minute. Add the green chillis and sliced onions and saute for 4 mts on medium heat.
2 Add turmeric pwd, salt and combine. Add the drained rice and fry it along with onions for a minute. Add 4 cups of coconut milk and bring to a boil.
3 Reduce heat and place lid and cook till rice is done.
4 Garnish with coriander leaves.
How to extract coconut milk: Grate a coconut, add 2 glasses of hot water and leave aside for 30 mts. Grind it to a fine paste. Place a muslin or thin cotton cloth on a vessel and pour this mixture onto the muslin cloth. The strained milk is called ‘first milk’ of coconut. Use your hand to squeeze out the milk from the residue. Add one more glass of water to the residue and run in the grinder for a mt. Strain on to muslin cloth. This second extract is called ’second milk’ of coconut.
Aloo Kurma Recipe
Source: Amma
Prep & Cooking: 30 mts
Serves: 4-5
Cuisine: Andhra
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3 potatoes, washed, boiled, peeled and cubed
1 large onion, finely chopped
2 green chillis, slit length wise
2 tomatoes, quartered
10-12 fresh curry leaves
1 tsp ginger-garlic paste
pinch of turmeric pwd
1/2 tsp red chilli pwd (adjust)
1 tsp coriander pwd
salt to taste
1 tbsp coriander leaves
1/2 tbsp oil
Make a paste by adding little water:
2 tbsps grated fresh coconut
1 tbsp poppy seeds/khus-khus/ghasagasalu
1 Heat oil in a vessel, add the chopped onions, green chillis and curry leaves and saute for 4-5 mts or till the onions turn transparent.
2 Add ginger garlic paste and fry further for another 3 mts. Add the chilli pwd, turmeric pwd, coriander pwd and salt. Combine well.
3 Add the quartered tomatoes and boiled and cubed potatoes and cook on medium heat for 6-7 mts. Reduce heat, add the ground coconut-poppy seeds paste and combine. Cook for 3-4 mts.
4 Add a glass of water, adjust salt and cook covered till you get the desired gravy consistency.
5 Garnish with fresh coriander leaves and serve with hot rotis, coconut rice or any flavored rice.
Note:
Alternately, you could vegetables of your choice for a vegetable coconut flavored rice. Once the onions are fried, add the cubed vegetables and saute for 6-7 mts and follow the rest of the above procedure. Another option is to add 1 tsp ginger garlic paste in place of the sliced garlic.
By sailu • Jul 18th, 2008 • Category: All Recipes, Andhra Recipes, Curries & Gravies, Rice recipes, Vegan recipes
Hi Sailu! Lovely combo of coconut rice and aloo kurma! looks great and excellent photography…thanks for sharing dear….
My mom makes this too
Very nice pictures! Looks delicious.
thali looks delicious….
this looks awesome…you make even the simplest food look rich! hats off dear sailu
lovely pictures…the combo sounds great…Can you send me the aloo kurma for the curry mela??..would love to have it..thanks
wow the curry looks delicious.
i dont know how u get such beautiful pics??????
Sounds nice combo…Aloo kurma nice recipe
Looks wonderful, perfectly fit for a weekend meal Sailu!:)
Hi Sailu! I tried the rice today!! It tastes WONDERFUL! loved the creamy texture!
Thank U for the simple yet super tasty recipe!!
Love the coconut rice recipe, never heard this version before. Lovely combo.
Perfect combo, love the pict
I love kobbari annam and dear hubby loves aloo curry.. should try your way soon
Aloo kurma looks simply superb.
This is so yummy. We had this for lunch today. It was awesome. Thank you so much for the lovely recipe.
You have a lovely website here. Great work!
regards,
indrani
That is an amazing combo, i must say the meal looks simply irresistible!
And thanks for sharing the tips on coconut milk, coz unavailability of that in our neighbourhood hampers my enthusiasm to try out so many lovely south indian dishes….not any more ……yippieeee
Thank you so much for ur support. i am a male bachelor and i iam cooking myself in my room. i am pursuing my mca. i have so much interest in cooking and your site is so helpful to me in preparing my daily food and also few varieties during weekends. pls send me ur tasty and wonderful dishes and give a chance to taste it. once again thank you so much. keep sending me mails.
Hi, your picture reminded me of my mother’s weekend specials. Yummy, delicious looking korma.. just perfect…:-)
Great meal for a lazy afternoon. I don’t think I’ve ever made coconut milk actually. Is it miles better than the tinned stuff?
Its ‘light years’ better than the tinned stuff.:)
It looks soo delicious. I will definitely have to attempt this dish , Sailu. Good work..keep it up.
Hi Sailu,
Yummy recipe.I like your way of explaining very small points.Keep it up.
Kovida
the coconut rice we make looks more white and has bits of coconut in it
Sailu, Delicious recipe. Thanks alot. I had a tough time making poppy seeds as smooth paste.. Do you have any tip for that?
Thanks,
Anu
I made a similar pulao… wonderful recipe and pictures as usual
Hi There;
This is my first comment and wanted to let you know I have just started my blog today. I have always enjoyed reading your blog and filled my kitchen with mouthwatering food using your recipes.
I just needed some help since I am new to this stuff. Can I email you please.Thanks
Hi Sailu,
I want to make kurma today. I have a question that what variety is the Potato you used in your receipe? Because in USA so many varieties and different sizes of potatoes available. Its confusing to use which one i have to use? please clarify me.
Thanks.
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Sailu,
The pictures look so good that I had to make Veggie Pulav and Aloo Kurma the same day and it turned out great. Amazing recipes and beautiful pictures !
Great recipes Sailu….visiting your blog after a long time…loved your fried rice and vegetables in peanut sauce and your spinach koftas…
Yummy recipe. I always make the aloo kurma but i never used freshly grated coconut. Iam defnetly going to make this and let you know how it tasted.
This is the kind of meal I can eat daily and never get tired of it.
kobbari annam was very tasty, i tried it and my family enjoyed it. thanks
I tried the korma… it was awesome!
Hey Sailu…i often visit your blog..n even tried all ur non veg dishes..they turned out very yummy…act in this coconut rice ..the coconut milk is ready made from indian store we get rgt…cn we use that and if so it will be thick so the milk shld be watery kind naa…coz over adding the taste shld not chnage so want to clarify…
If store bought then dilute with water, Sapna.
That looks delecious! surely try it.
Hi,
Just amazing recipe and photographs….Looks Tempting….I have a few favourites from ur website…can i add them to my blog with a link t urs?
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Hi Sailu,
Cooked this y’day for dinner, it was a super tasty !!
This is a nice meal, also less time consuming.
Thank you for the recipe.