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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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