One of popular human delusions is that coconut milk is a liquid which is in coconut. Like, it is enough to make an opening in a shell, to insert there a tubule and please, drink! Actually to receive from a coco the dense white sweet liquid similar to cow's milk, a little more difficult, but it is worth it. Coconut milk doesn't contain calcium, lactose and casein therefore is ideal for people with an allergy to these products, to persons with a surplus of calcium and to vegans.
It is required to you
- 2 mature cocoes
- clear water
- blender
- table knife
Instruction
1. From two cocoes at you from 4 to 6 glasses of coconut milk will turn out. The quantity depends on that how dense you will make the final product. It is very important to take a clear water, you don't want to receive useful milk on the chlorinated tap water?
2. Your first task is to open coconut. There are not less than 10 various ways, but practically each of them begins with the fact that from a coco coconut juice – transparent liquid which many, mistakenly, consider coconut milk merges.
3. Having divided a coco into two half, you have to remove white pulp from its walls. Some sources are advised to remove coco halves for half an hour in the deep freeze, then the procedure of scraping of a coco, according to them, will take place easier. Others with the same purpose, on the contrary, recommend to place coco halves for twenty minutes in the oven warmed up to 180 degrees Celsius. Scrape a coco a wide knife, a spoon or special adaptation which is called coconut Schröder. If you decide to remove pulp by means of a knife, pay attention that it was not really sharp and I couldn't injure you. For your problem of a blunt knife it is enough, and the edge often breaks and if it very sharp, can seriously wound you.
4. After you scrape out halves, pick up the blender. Pour a clear water into a bowl of the blender and put on a piece of coconut pulp. The more densely you want to receive milk, the less water to you it is necessary to pour. Turn on the blender and turn gradually all pulp into puree.
5. Switch off the blender, take a gauze and put in it coconut pulp puree. Squeeze out a gauze over a glass or plastic vessel. From it dense coconut milk will flow.