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Burfi is any sweet dish presented in condensed form. We have about 5 coconut trees at my mom's place and i totally love the fresh tender coconut water from these trees especially during summer holidays. I can easily gulp 2 medium sized tender coconut water at one go. However we had one tree out of five, bearing a extremely large sized tender coconuts. Ofcourse, it has a lot of water in it and at the same time it's so sweet too. Talking about these stories takes me back to my child hood days and makes me stay in that moment. Every coconut tree is unique in our garden. One of them bears orangish tender coconuts and is considered the sweetest of all available coconuts (or as against the green ones). We also get tender coconuts from the market but they might not be fresh from the garden. There are lot of stories and steps involved in bringing a coconut(or any vegetable/fruit for that matter) from the farm land and all the way to the market place where end customers like you and...

Coconut rice is made out of cooked rice with few nuts and grated coconut tempered in oil and spices. This dish doesn't take lot of time and can be cooked quickly for kids lunch box. Also bachelors can cook easily as it requires few ingredients. Ingredients: 4 tbsp grated coconut 2 tsp chopped coriander leaves 1 tsp mustard seeds 1/2 tsp split urad dhal 1 tsp finely chopped ginger 7-9 cashews 2 green chillies, slit longitudinally 1 cup cooked rice (250 ml) salt to taste oil for tempering Steps: 1. Heat oil in a pan and add mustard seeds and urad dhal. 2. Once mustard seeds start to splutter, add cashews as a whole or broken as desired. 3. Cashews turn light brown in just a minute. Now, add chillies and ginger pieces. 4. Saute well for 3 minutes. Then add grated coconut to the pan and fry till the coconut starts to change its color. Add little oil and fry well. 5. Add chopped coriander leaves and fry for a minute. 6. Add cooked rice t...