Coconut milk - coconut juice - coconut water

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Coconut milk is different from coconut water (coconut juice), which you get when you open the coconut. You can read more about Coconut water

You get coconut milkwhen 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. But it has a coconutty flavor and fragrance and a wonderful taste. It can be used to make sweets, drinks, desserts, soups, curries in the same way as dairy milk. Veganscan use it in many dishes instead of dairy milk.

You may like to read about recipes with coconut milk

How to make Coconut Milk

Ingredients for making coconut milk:

• Coconut - 1
• Water - 2-3 cups
• Muslin cloth or a strainer.

Method:

1. Grind the fresh coconut using about 1/2 cup water.
2. 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.
3. Put the coconut residue again in the grinder with 1 cup water. Grind again and again extract the milk. This milk will be thinner that the first lot. Keep this aside in another cup too.
4. 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.

How to 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, Remove the top creamy layer. This is coconut cream for you.

This coconut cream contains more fat and is rich in coconut flavor too. It is used for making sweets and puddings.

Want to Know more about how to get coconut juice?

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