How to make Coconut Milk

Coconut milk in bowl

Want to know how to make coconut milk ?
Coconut milk is one of the products from coconut. Coconut milk is made from the juice of coconut meat extract. This coconut meat extract has a milky white colour and a rather hard texture.

Coconut milk contains about 17-24 percent fat. Unlike coconut water, coconut milk does not have a sweet taste. This causes coconut milk to be used in the process of making various kinds of soups, sauces, desserts, and so on. coconut milk has a sugar content of zero grams or no sugar.

Coconut milk can also be regarded as one of the ingredients that is very often found in its use in the process of making food, cakes, and drinks. Besides that coconut milk has a price that is quite affordable for the community. Not only used as a basic ingredient in making food and drinks, coconut milk also has many other benefit. One of them, coconut milk can be used as an alternative milk to replace cow's milk.

Not only classified as food and beverage ingredients, some are even using coconut milk as an ingredient used for beauty.

Good quality coconut milk can be obtained from old coconuts, coconut milk that is processed from old coconut, has a thick texture and has a savory taste, and this is a standard that has long been applicable in the community, never once take coconut milk from young coconuts, or your culinary offerings will not have taste.

Preparations for making coconut milk

Choose coconut, at this stage the emphasis is more on the selection of coconuts to be harvested, the selection is made of old coconuts, with the following characteristics, coconuts that are old and brown in colour, In the coconut that has not been peeled, when it is old, the skin will change colour, namely brown, the skin in the coconut fruit is also brown, the skin in the coconuts which are very hard and thick has also been brownish, coconut meat is hard and thick, in old coconuts, coconut meat that will be taken coconut milk, will have a hard texture.

Peel and break down the coconut

Next is the coconut fruit then peeled from the soft outer skin, until the hard shell remains, then, break the hard shell, dispose of the water in the coconut fruit, then using a tool, separate the coconut meat from the shell for further processing.

Shredded coconut meat

After the coconut meat is separated from the hard coconut shells, there are two ways that can be done to process the shredded coconut, namely the traditional and modern methods.

The traditional way is to only use simple tools that have long been used to grate the coconut, and the commonly used tool is called grater.

Grater has long been used to grate the coconut, this tool is made of boards plugged into nails or needles that are small in large quantities, and sharp, when using a grater, there is a high risk of fingers being injured because they are scraped by sharp needles.

How to use grated is also quite easy, just pressed the coconut fruit up and down the grater, and you will get very small pieces of coconut fruit, which will then be taken coconut milk.

The process of shredding the coconut in a modern way also has a variety of tools, but the use of this tool is specifically only for the seller of grated coconut, yes, in our place, only grated coconut is sold, to get coconut milk, we have to process it again at home.

Coconut shredders that are fairly modern already use electricity to be able to work, using an electric dynamo, and the end there is a head that also has a small sharp needle, if using this tool, the palm fruit does not need to be separated from the shell, because when operated, the coconut shell will be held when the coconut fruit will be rubbed against the head of the dynamo and small pieces of coconut fruit will be obtained.

Squeeze the grated coconut meat

Coconut milk is obtained from squeezing small pieces of coconut, small pieces of coconut obtained through the grating process above, next is what kind of coconut milk you want to get, whether thick or thin coconut milk.

The tools used in squeezing coconut milk are 2 bowls and a colander. Bowls are usually made of glass, and the filter is made of zinc which has small holes and has a very large amount. This filter serves to separate the coconut milk that comes out when squeezing with shredded coconut meat.

In our place, the process of squeezing coconut milk is carried out in two parts, meaning that we want to get two types of coconut milk, which are thick and thin.

To get thick coconut milk is done by mixing a little water in a pile of small pieces of coconut. And thin coconut milk will be obtained by mixing more water after the process of filtering thick coconut milk is done.

Filters to squeeze grated coconut meat

In general, the process of milk squeezing is done by:
1. Put the shredded coconut into a bowl 1.
2. Mix with water.
3. Crush or squeeze the squeezed hand with a mixture of grated coconut and water for 2-3 minutes
4. After it feels mixed, take the filter and place it on the bowl 2.
5. Enter the mixture of grated coconut and water that has been kneaded squeezed into the filter.
6. Squeeze until the coconut milk comes out, repeat until the whole grater has been squeezed.
7. Repeat the above process if thick coconut milk has been obtained, and want to take thin coconut milk.
8. Done.

The steps above to take coconut milk are actually quite easy to do if you are used to it, even though the whole of the above process actually takes quite a long time, from selecting coconuts, peeling, separating the coconut meat from the shell, grating and squeezing.

Although currently there are many coconut milk products that have been sold freely and are more simple, but people still choose to squeeze their own coconut milk, this is because the food flavor from the original coconut milk will be better.

Thus the article on how to get coconut milk from coconuts, another time I will write an article about dishes that use coconut or coconut milk as ingredients, subscribe to continue to get the latest articles from this blog, hopefully useful, thank's.
watch video below to see grate coconut meat using modern tools.