seriously now I took you
to coconut hi
welcome to getting into
raw cooking with
Zayn, today I'm going to
learn quite a lot.
about coconut, we're to
learn how to open
the mature coconut we
learn how to open
the baby coconut then
learn how to make
our coconut milk so that
you can use
it in your Thai style
recipes are you
ready alright there are
two ways that
you can open a young
coconut now the
the reason why you would
want to young
coconut is it's full of
delicious and
nutritious coconut water
and some soft
gelatinous flesh you can
use to thicken
up some recipes so the
first way the way
in case you're a little
bit nervous
about using a big knife
such as th
cleaver in this take the
knife this one
that doesn't have to be
too sharp and
you cannot weigh some of
the white
if you have a look at
the top of the
coconut you'll see that
there's a few
little cracks or lines
the cracks seem
to be quite hard and
tough but the
little spaces in between
the cracks
that's where you want to
hit with the
corner of the knife so
we use the corner
of the knife into that
spot there here
we go and smack the coat
up and open it
we do that, and then we
simply use the
corner of the knife to
open a little
hole in it all right the
second way
top of the coconuts are
a little bit
more courageous then and
this is my
a favorite way of
opening the coconut is
to just use it for big
whacks hopefully
and you get straight in
there you do use
the sharp edge of your
knife okay here
goes here you go okay so
now we're going
to get into the mature
coconut, it's a
a little bit of more
difficult process
then a young coconut
when you look at
the end of the mature
coconut there's
three little eyes that
you'll see when
you feel them one of the
eyes will feel
softer than the others
so we can use
that little eye that's a
software to
actually, help us get in
and release the
water so we don't make a
mess you can
use the end of a knife,
but I don't want
to roll a lot of my good
nose, so I've
just got a great tip
that is a really
good idea to use a
corkscrew to do that
so you find that softer
eye and then use
the corkscrew to screw
into that softer
eye and make a bit of a
hole excellent
once we've done that
there we go, we can
use the hole to pull the
water out yeah
so we just pour out the
water from
inside of the mature
coconut and pop
that aside just a quick
note on waiting
for that to happen when
you choose a
coconut inside the store
you want to
have a good shake and
make sure
that you can hear the
water inside the
Coco if there's no water
move on to the
next coconut and the
other thing that
you want to do is check
those three
little eyes in the
bottom of the coconut
if there's any black or
more again, move
on to the next coconut
because of that
means that there are
bacteria inside the
the coconut we don't
want that okay you can
drink the water from a
mature coconut
but I don't like the
flavor so
you could have put a
straw in there and
drink it yourself, or
you could just tip
it out you can discard
it use it for
something again it's not
my preference
so I won't be using that
today all right
let's do this
there you go we had to
get somewhere
inside our mature
coconut do I be afraid
to give it a good whack
now we want to
get the flesh out of the
coconut so just use
your knife let's group
out bits of
code that once you've
got the flesh out
of the mature coconut if
you want to use
it to make coconut milk
or to add to a
salad or other recipes
you want to take
the last of the brown
skin off the back
so you can simply use a
peeler and slide
it over the edge until
you remove that
the layer of brown skin
simple as that now
you use the white flesh
to gray into
your salads to eat well
oh do to make
coconut move excellent
well with your
young coconuts you can
just use the
coconut water inside you
can drink it
new smoothies or add to
other recipes
with the mature coconut
once you've
cleared the back you can
use it to make
coconut milk but if you
don't want to go
through the hassle of
opening up your
own mature coconut you
can also make the
coconut milk using
desiccated coconut
that you can buy from
the supermarket
I'd highly encourage you
to buy
the desiccated coconut
that doesn't have the
preservative to 200 in
it it's much
better for your health
that too - always
been linked to causing
asthma so you
want to leave that one
out now what I've
done already just to get
ahead is to put
3 cups of desiccated or
shredded coconut
straight into my optimum
9900 blender
it's ready to rock and
roll all I need
to do to finish off this
recipe is add 4
cups of filtered or
bottled water to the
blender as well we have
the blender 3
cups of desiccated or
shredded coconut**
from the supermarket and
4 cups of water
remember you could have
used that mature
coconut flesh but this
is a much easier
way than opening your
coconut even
though it's a fun
mission we put the lid
on make sure that it's
locked into place
and then you simply turn
on the blender
once it's well blended
all you need to
do is turn it off check
out you can see
it looks sweet and
creamy, but there were
plenty of pork inside
this part is the
the natural part we pour
the mixture from the
blender strain into one
of these this is
called a nut milk bag
there is a
difference between a
sprout bag and a
nut milk bag the nut
milk bag is a nice
fine weave which means
that the pulp
stays on the inside and
the liquid comes
out so we pop it in a
bowl I usually
hook it over the lip of
this particular
ball and hold it with my
hand and then i
use the joke and pour it
straight down
the side of the bowl
just being careful
that you don't let the
edges fall in
once you've got all the
liquid inside
the nut milk bag most
will start to come
through on its own but
just in case
squeeze gently all you
want to do is
turn and squeeze turn
and squeeze and
squeeze it's quite fun
if you
be cranky mm-hmm and all
that beautiful
coconut milk will come
through okay so
you'll see that all the
liquid starts to
come throughout, and
this is a great job
you've got kids or a
hubby or a partner
that you want to engage
in the kitchen
you don't have to do
very much, but it's
a little job that you
can share
with somebody else
after a while, there
won't be anything
coming out and you'll be
left with the
the pulp inside of the
bag and the milk
inside of the bowl now
this pulp you can
use to make coconut
macaroons or you can
pop it in a dehydrator
you'll
see that it's quite
excellent in a dehydrator
and turn it into coconut
flour to use
for your other baking in
recipes we're
going to put it aside
today and we're
not going
in the recipes that
we're making but
there are plenty of
things you can do
with it so don't waste
it pop it in the
freezer if you're not
going to use it
right away what we have
a big bowl of
freshly made coconut
milk which you can
use for lots of
different recipes any of
your Indian your Thai
you're getting important
to glass and
have a beautiful drink
to clean your nut
milk bag all you needed
to do was turn
it inside outruns it
under the tap until
it's nice and clean like
this and then I
usually hang mine over
the drainer until
it's nice and dry, so
we're going to go
and make something
different you'll have
to tune in next time to
see what we do
with this coconut milk
ciao for now
you
let me dress it
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