Coconut milk
Coconut milk
is different from coconut
water (coconut
juice), which
you get when you open the coconut. You can read more about Coconut
water by clicking here.
You
get coconut milk
when you extract the milky juice
from the inner white fleshy part of coconut. That is done by finely
grating or
grinding the coconut and extracting the juice using a little
water.
If
you have a heavy duty mixer grinder, you can put the coconut pieces in
it to grind it to paste. You can also use grated coconut to extract
milk.
Coconut-milk looks like, well, dairy milk. It can be used to make sweets, drinks, desserts, soups
in the same way as dairy milk. Vegans
can use it in many dishes instead of dairy milk.
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How to make
Coconut-Milk
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Ingredients:
Coconut – 1
Water – 2-3 cups
Muslin cloth or a strainer.
Method:
- Grind the fresh
coconut using about ½ cup water.
- Put the paste in a
muslin cloth, gather the ends of the cloth and squeeze to extract milk.
This is thick milk. Keep it aside.
- Put the coconut residue again in the grinder
with 1 cup water. Grind
again and again extract the milk. This milk will be thinker that the
first lot. Keep this aside too.
- You can extract some more
milk with using one more cup of water and you will get the thinnest
milk.
Keep
each extract separate. While cooking, the thinnest extract is added
first to cook food in it and the thickest the last. That gives good
consistency as well as lovely coconutty flavor.
Get Coconut
Cream from Coconut-Milk
You can get coconut
cream by keeping the thickest (the first extract)
in the fridge or in a cool place for an hour or so. When it settles,
You can remove the
top creamy layer.
This coconut cream contains more fat and
is rich in coconut flavor too. It is used for making sweets and
puddings.
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