Outdoor Cooking : Cooking Rice Inside Coconut

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Outdoor Cooking : Cooking Rice Inside Coconut

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If you got stranded in a tropical place without any cooking utensils, you can very easily cook your food inside coconuts and bamboos.

In this instructable let us see how can we cook Rice inside a coconut

Items

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  • A large sized, husked coconut
  • About 100 grams of Rice
  • About 25 to 30 grams of Jaggery. It is optional.I have added jaggery for the rice to be more tasteful

Soak Rice

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  • Before cooking Rice inside coconut, soak in water till the rice grains are soft
  • Drain out water and place it on a wet cotton cloth so that the rice grains remain moist and soft

Make a Plug From a Stick

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  • Cut a 2 ft long stick from a tree which is not toxic. Here I have cut a stick from a Guava tree
  • Sharpen one end for about 2 inches as shown in the picture
  • Remove the bark from the stick if possible

Mix Rice With Jaggery

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  • The jaggery we have is a large one weighing about 300 grams.
  • Scrap out about 25 to 30 grams of jaggery from the large piece
  • Transfer the moist rice to a plate and add powdered jaggery to it and mix well

Open the Coconut

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  • After removing all the fibre from the coconut, you can see 3 eyes on one end
  • With the help of a knife, open up the eye at the center and make a hole. You can do it with the sharpened stick also

Put Rice Mix Inside Coconut

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  • Make a small funnel with a piece of paper and place it over the hole
  • Place small amounts of rice mix in the funnel and push with a stick inside. Alternately, you can take small amount of mix in your fingers and push it inside the coconut

Plug the Hole

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  • Matured coconuts have some empty space and water inside. If you find that you can not put all rice inside due to the water, drain out a little and keep rest inside
  • Once the rice mix is filled inside coconut, plug the hole tightly with the sharpened edge of stick we made earlier
  • The 2 ft long stick will also help us in rotating the coconut in fire

Make Fire

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  • Dig a small hole in an open area
  • Collect dried pieces of sticks and branches from surrounding area
  • Break sticks in small lengths and fill the trench
  • Using some old news paper or dried leaves, start fire

Place Coconut With Stick in Fire

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  • Once the fire is started, place the rice-filled coconut with stick on fire and keep the fire going
  • You need to keep the fire going for more than half an hour for the rice to cook
  • From time to time keep rotating the coconut in fire using the long handle
  • The outer shell of the coconut will be completely burned and the outer surface of the coconut meat will also come in contact with fire
  • Do not worry about that and keep the fire going. The fire will burn and blacken only the outer surface of the coconut meat and the inside will remain white

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  • After half an hour remove burned coconut from fire
  • Push the stick inside and take out. It will come with few grains of rice.
  • Check whether the rice is properly cooked or not and water is still inside.
  • If not keep the coconut on fire for some more time
  • Once the rice is cooked, take out the coconut from fire and allow to cool
  • Put out the fire and fill the hole with the removed earth from it

Scrap Out Burned Surface

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  • Once the coconut is cooled, remove the stick
  • Using a knife remove burned shell still attached to the surface
  • Scrap out burned outer surface of coconut meat as much as possible

Cut Open and Eat Rice With Coconut

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  • Cut open the coconut. Inside you will find the cooked rice as well as the cooked coconut meat
  • The rice in my case is 3/4th done and edible
  • Eat the cooked rice with chunks of coconut

Enjoy your Lunch and have fun...