Basmati rice cooking challenge

I have received word of at least three participants in this inaugural “intensely trivial” cooking challenge, so I’m going to post the rules and the details of it. You need to do it, too!

Now, no complaining, because this is an easy challenge!

The rules:

1. You have to use all the of the listed ingredients.
2. You can use the ingredients in whatever form you want.
3. You can use as much of the given ingredients as you want.
4. You may add as much salt, black pepper, and/or water as you want.
5. You may add one additional flavoring ingredient of your choice, if you desire.
6. You may not add any more large-ish amounts of unlisted food (greater than, say, 2-3 tablespoons).
7. To complete the cooking challenge, you must report on your adventures in your own blog, in an email, or on this blog. Pictures are great!
8. All reports on the Basmati Rice Cooking Challenge are due 10 days from today: Sun., 1/25!

This challenge’s ingredients:

basmati rice
coconut
tomatoes
cream/milk
onions
chile pepper
peas
oil (optional)

And to sweeten the pot, so to speak, I am offering a prize to the CC participant whose name I draw. Get this: You could win your choice of homemade fabric wipes! homemade cloth napkins! a rice sock! or a cookbook off my shelf! Now if those aren’t tantalizing prizes, I don’t know what is.

So throw your hat in the ring and get cookin’.