Homemade Coconut Milk – How To Make Coconut Milk?

Homemade Coconut Milk – How To Make Coconut Milk?

To us homemade coconut milk is a vegan equivalent of bacon or butter. It can amplify the taste of any dish to the next level. Coconut milk is an integral element in South Indian & Southeast Asian food culture. You can do a lot of things with it. Shakes, Curries, Cakes, Desserts, the opportunities are aplenty.

Store bought ‘ready to use’ coconut milk may appear like the real deal, but it is far away from it. The most popular brands are loaded with chemicals in the form of emulsifying and stabilizing agents. Some even have milk protein and corn starch. Isn’t  this a good enough reason to  make your own? Homemade coconut milk lets you bypass all this nonsense. It is incomparably fresh, flavourful and healthy to the last drop.

You can make fresh coconut milk in less than 5 minutes. To make coconut milk at home, you will need the following ingredients,

Ingredients, Measurements & Nutritional Values

Fresh mature Coconut	330 grams
Water or coconut water	500 ml

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Facts

• Coconut milk contains lipids and acids that have anti-bacterial, antiviral and anti-fungal properties.
• Medium chain saturated fatty acids (MCFA) present in coconut are rapidly converted into energy in the liver. Unlike other saturated fats, MCFAs are quickly used by the body. Hence they don’t get stored as fat.

Video Walk Through : Homemade Coconut Milk – How To Make Coconut Milk?

Instructions : Homemade Coconut Milk – How To Make Coconut Milk?

1. Break open a mature coconut and scoop the flesh out. Breaking a coconut is easy but scooping the flesh out is the challenging part. Once you break open the coconut, throw the two halves into your freezer for an hour. After an hour knock the shell side of each half with a hammer or a rolling pin. The flesh should ideally fall out.
2. Transfer the coconut flesh to a blender.
3. Add 500 ml of plain water or fresh coconut water.
4. Blitz on high speed for 2 minutes.
5. Setup a bowl with a colander and line it with a clean cloth. Ideally a cheese cloth or muslin cloth.
6. Pour the contents of the blender jar into the colander-cloth setup.
7. Gather all the edges of the cloth and bundle it up with the coconut. Squeeze through the cloth. Watch the YouTube video above to get a better understanding.
8. The liquid collected in the bowl underneath is coconut milk.

You can use the homemade coconut milk right away or refrigerate and finish it off in one or two days.

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