Name: Candied Coconut Rice (Arroz con Coco)
Cuisine: puerto rican
Ingredients: ½ cup seeded raisins; 6 whole cloves, optional; 2 ounces fresh ginger, scrubbed under running water (Cut into 6 pieces about 1 inch long, 1 inch wide and ¼ inch thick. Crush well.); 1½ cups rice; 1½ cups either white granulated or brown sugar; 3 cinnamon sticks; 1½ teaspoons salt; 4¼ cups diluted coconut milk, see Index; Pinch of nutmeg, optional; ¾ cup undiluted coconut milk, see Index

Preparation info

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

Puerto Rican Cookery

By Carmen Aboy Valldejuli

Published 1983

About

Ingredients

A

1½ cups rice

Americas
Caribbean
Gluten-free
Chocolate
Vegan
Puerto Rico

Method

Wash rice and soak in water to cover, generously, for 2 hours.
Twenty minutes before soaked rice is ready, proceed as follows: Reserve the ¾ cup undiluted coconut milk included in B and combine rest of ingredients in B in an 11-inch caldero or heavy kettle. Bring to a boil over high heat. Red