How To Make Coconut Flour With Fresh Coconut Easy At Home

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In general, the process of making cakes and other foods uses wheat flour as the main ingredient.

However, in some people who have an allergy to gluten, wheat flour will leave a problem, and this is what trying to get around by replacing wheat flour with coconut flour.

Coconut flour is produced from freshly grated coconut meat, which has been shredded, then squeezed and taken coconut milk, then the coconut pulp is dried, coconut flour is 100% gluten-free, and has more fiber.

The color of coconut flour is also not much different from wheat flour, and for baking raw materials which undergo a roasting process, coconut flour is known to be suitable for food in the making process.

One of the benefit that will be felt when making various foods using coconut flour is those who suffer from diabetes. because coconut flour as food has a low glycemic index.

Low glycemic index will not make blood sugar in the body rise.

Based on one study, an example using coconut flour that is mixing with rice and water in a rice cooker, before cooking, stir in coconut flour, rice and water until evenly distributed, a mixture of rice with coconut flour can reduce the glycemic index of rice.

Although coconut flour mixed with rice has a high fiber content and can slow down the process of glucose absorption from rice, but excessive eating will cause efforts to keep the body healthy will be in vain.

Other benefits of coconut flour

Besides being able to reduce blood sugar levels in diabetics, dried coconut flour has another benefit, namely, being able to lose weight, if we can control appetite, because it has a high fiber. besides that coconut flour also has a high protein, low in fat, and has lauric acid which plays a role in the body's immunity and skin.

Coconut flour also contains manganese which plays a role in the absorption of important minerals for the body, another very high nutritional value in coconut flour is the content of healthy saturated fats in the form of medium chain fatty acids or MCF4, these fatty acids will be used by the body to produce energy and support healthy metabolism and balance blood sugar levels.

Very high nutrient density from dried coconut flour will make digestion healthier.

Coconut flour is also known to be able to reduce cholesterol and triglyceride levels for those who have high cholesterol levels, and the high content of dietary fiber which is soluble or not in coconut flour can make the intestines healthy.

The following are the steps for making coconut flour:

• Take some old coconut grains that are good quality, characterized by coconut shells which are dark brown in color, and when shaken the sound of water comes from inside the coconut.
• Break the coconut shell using a hammer, then take the coconut meat, then peel the skin of the coconut flesh which is brown until the whole coconut meat is clean and white.
• If blended using a blender, cut small pieces of coconut meat into a blender then mix with boiled water, to easyer the grinding process
• After the coconut is ground in a blender until smooth, strain the mixture through a thin cotton cloth to separate the coconut milk from the coconut pulp. Store coconut milk in a container and put it in the refrigerator.
• The pulp that has been obtained is then put into a baking dish and then flattened in such a way that makes it easy to dry.
• Put it in the oven at a temperature of about 180 degrees Celsius and then bake until it dries.
• Grind the pulp that has been dried in the oven until smooth. To get a finer texture of coconut flour, you can sift it before using it.
• If coconut flour will not be used immediately, coconut flour can be stored but try the flour is already cold, and use a container with a lid or a tight plastic so that air from outside can not enter, and store in the refrigerator to maintain the quality of the flour

Tips and Tricks 

• When you are covening, keep monitoring as much as possible so that the color of the flour does not turn brown. Brown flour will reduce the quality of the coconut flour itself.
• If you do not have an oven, you can use a pan by roasting coconut dregs on low heat and turning it over routinely until the pulp is dry and not charred.

From this article, it can be concluded that using coconut flour as a substitute for wheat flour in food processing, especially making baked goods, is healthier, and will have benefits for those who suffer from diabetes, high cholesterol, and those who want to lose weight, hopefully this article useful, and for those of you who want to try making dried coconut flour with fresh coconut at home, good luck, and let you know the results through the comments column huh ??

Coconut Cheese Cookies with Desiccated Coconut, Tasty and Fragrant

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There are so many coconut-based cakes, one of which uses desiccated coconut, which is dried coconut meat, by removing the water content so that only about 3% left, using dried coconut, the taste and aroma of the cake will be delicious and the fragrant of the coconut will be more pronounced.

Desiccated coconut can be made easily at home, by means of the oven or roasted using a frying pan, when using an oven the temperature used is low temperature, whereas if you want to roast, the stove used is a small fire.

If you want to make cakes with desiccated coconut ingredients, use coconuts that are not mature, not too young, to get the delicious and fragrant taste and aroma of coconut.

One of the coconut cakes is coconut cheese cookies, coconut cheese cookies including cookies which make it very easy. The ingredients used are not too many. Intrigued to make it, this cake can even made by those who have no cooking experience at all, are you curious, along with the list of ingredients and the process of making the cake.

Ingredient

Margarine 150 gr
100 gr flour sugar
 Salt 1/4 ts
1 egg yolk
Grated Cheese 50 gr
Desiccated coconut to be sprinkled with 50 gr
Flour 250 gr

How to make:
1. Beat margarine mixed with flour and salt sugar evenly.
2. Add egg yolks while still stirring.
3. Enter the flour while sifting and stirring evenly, add grated cheese, stir well.
4. Take a little batter. The shape of the crescent moon or according to your wishes.
5. Roll on the coconut. Place it on a baking sheet smeared with margarine.
6. Bake for 30 minutes with a fire under a temperature of 150 degrees Celsius until done.
7. Coconut Cheese Cookies are ready to be served.

It is very easy not to make coconut cheese cookies with desiccated coconut, make sure the cake you make is not burnt and tastes good huh, good luck.

How to Make Desiccated Coconut

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About Desiccated Coconut

Desiccated coconut is often used as a cake ingredient to add flavor and texture. Some cakes that often use dried coconut are cupcakes, pastries, cakes and macaroons.

If you only use coconut without baking, the cake will be chewy, while if roasted, it will feel crispy when eaten. In addition, roasted coconuts have a rich, aromatic flavor first.

Desiccated coconut is a material with low water content (maximum 3%) so it can be stored for a long time. The practical benefits of desiccated coconut can be added to water, then pressed to get coconut milk that is used for cooking.

Besides, this dried grated coconut is grinded until smooth into coconut flour. How to make desiccated coconut is not too complicated, and can be done easily in your kitchen.

Coconut flour is used as a material for making bread and cakes. Before use, dried grated coconut is moistened with water, then squeezed to remove the coconut milk.

Although shredded coconut has not been widely circulated in the market, it is estimated that in the future, especially in urban areas, shredded coconut is increasingly in demand by people to make some food because it is more practical than fresh coconut which must be shredded first.

Common Ways to Make Dry Grated Coconut

Ingredients: Coconut

Equipment:
Scrapper, To separate the coconut meat with shell
knife, to separate the outer layer of brown coconut meat
Grated coconut machine, to grate
Dryer, to remove the water content in grated coconut

Making process

1. Stripping Shell, try not to break the flesh of nut. To facilitate stripping, coconuts can be preheated using hot steam for 30-40 minutes.
2. Stripping the skin of the flesh of the fruit until the outside of the flesh becomes pure white without leaving the skin of the flesh.
The pulp is cut, then washed clean and after that the flesh is drained.
Pieces of fruit flesh are dipped in hot water (80 ~ 100C) for 5-8 minutes to kill microbes, kill the enzymes that cause the grated coconut to turn brown and soften the fruit flesh tissue.
3. Grated flesh using a machine to get grated like a fine ribbon, or machine to get grated granules.
4. Grated coconut is dried to reduce the water content to a maximum of 3%. one way is to roast, there are two ways, namely,

Roasted using a stove

Put some grated coconut in a large skillet. Cook over medium heat while continuing to stir until the coconut is golden brown. If the coconut you use tends to be sweet, it will turn brownish faster so it only takes less time.

Using the oven

Preheat the oven to 160 C. Spread the grated coconut on a baking sheet with a thin layer then bake it in the oven. Grated coconut will brown very quickly, only taking about 5-10 minutes. After a few minutes, stir the coconut so that the colours are evenly obtained. Remember, sweet grated coconut only takes a short time because the sugar content accelerates the roasting process.
5. Dried shredded coconut must be airtight and not contain moisture. Packaging that can be used is polyethylene plastic bags, aluminium-coated plastic bags, semi-rigid plastic boxes, glass bottles, and tin boxes. Highly recommended to be put into the package nitrogen or carbon dioxide gas so that the dried coconut that has been packaged has a longer shelf life.

Tip: If the coconut you use is not sweet and wants to make it a little sweeter, then put half a kilogram of unsweetened grated coconut in a plastic bag or container with a lid and add 2 tablespoons of refined sugar. Rattles of plastic bags and grated coconut will taste sweet.

Well, that’s how to make desiccated coconut, it’s very easy and you can try to make in your kitchen, good luck