Simple Jaggery coconut sweet dish

This is my fav sweet dish.

Ingredients:
1) rice half cup
2) fresh coconut - half shell
3) jaggery - size of your fist - assuming one has a normal sized fist - also amount of jaggery determines the sweetness of this recipe. (jaggery is not an english word? My spell check showing problem)
4) For garnish - your favorite dry fruits- cashew and raisins work wonderfully for south indian dishes, cardomom and ghee.

Method:
1) Soak rice in water for 30 mins to 1 hour.
2)Hope you are lucky with your jaggery and it is soft so you can cut it in small pieces and boil it in water. I was very unlucky the first time as the jaggery was harder than diamond - so i just boiled the whole thing in water to soften it and then cut it in smaller pieces. Sometimes the vessel tends to burn then one can put the vessel (with jaggery and water) inside another vessel with water and then boil till things are soft. Actually it is not that tough to boil jaggery. So don't get intimidated by this step.
3) Cut the coconut into small pieces.
4) In a mixie grind rice and coconut and some water together till it is a coarse paste.
5) To the ground paste add some water and boil. The rice cooks pretty fast (unless you didn't soak it well enough). You can add cardomom too at this stage. I am always wary of too much cardomom in sweet dishes.
6) Hope by this time - the jaggery has melted. So add the jaggery and add water to determine the desired consistency and sweetness.
7) In a pan heat ghee - fry the cashews. I finely chop or crush them as it is nice to get a piece of cashew in your bite. Some folks fry raisins also but i hate fried raisins so i just add raisins directly. Add the fried dry fruits to the dish
8) Very very important step- cool - this dish tastes better the second day. I am not seriously not kidding.

Enjoy :)!