Mshombo (mushy coconut rice and greengrams)

Name: Mshombo (mushy coconut rice and greengrams)
Yield: 3-5 servings
Cuisine: Kenyan
Ingredients: 1 cup basmati rice; 1 cup green grams; 1 cup coconut milk; 1 cup thick coconut cream; 3 cups water; to taste Salt

Miraj yule mrembo @miraj_yule_mrembo

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This is one of the meals served by the coastal Digo community. Its commonly known as Mseto, meaning mixture. In the coast it's very common to cook with coconut milk and coconut cream and this is one of the meals cooked using those ingredients. It's served with stew or curry of choice, either, fish, beef or even chicken. Enjoooooooy

Miraj yule mrembo @miraj_yule_mrembo

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Ingredients

3-5 servings

1 cupbasmati rice
1 cupgreen grams
1 cupcoconut milk
1 cupthick coconut cream
3 cupswater
to tasteSalt

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Steps

1

Thoroughly wash the rice and greengrams, soak the rice for 15 minutes and the greengrams overnight or for 2 hours.
2

Put the greengrams in a clean sufuria with some salt and bring them to a boil in the 3 cups of water. This should be about 15 to 20 minutes. The greengrams should be nice and soft at this point, that is cooked, if not add a little more water.
3

Reduce the heat to low and add in the clean rice, once it comes to a boil add some little more salt if it's necessary. Slightly stir and cover and let cook for 7 to 10 minutes. The water shouldn't dry up.
4

After the 7 to 10 minutes add in the coconut milk, stir to mix it well and cover and let cook for another 10 minutes.
5

Add in the thick coconut cream, stir to mix well and cover and cook for another 10 minutes.
6

Don't let it dry up, if it does add very little coconut milk because at this point you are supposed to mix, stir and mush with a mwiko. Continue this process until the rice and greengrams are nicely mixed together.
7

Serve with stew of your choice.