How Do You Cook With Coconut?

There are a lot of dishes you can prepare with coconut. These are mostly south Indian dishes. Once you crack open the coconut, there is no limit to what you can do with it. You can use it in deserts, in main courses, in rice, as seasoning. Coconut milk can be obtained from fresh coconut very easily. Coconut milk can be used in a number of recipes, soups, deserts or can even be served as a child refresher. Let me tell you how to obtain coconut milk first. Simply grind the coconut with milk. Use a sewer to filter out the milk which is now coconut milk.

Another simple and delicious dish you can make with grated coconut is coconut rice. For preparation, wash rice and set aside for an hour. Heat butter or beef fat in a pan, add cloves and washed rice, cook for 5 minutes. Put boiling water (double the amount of rice) on rice; cook till the rice is done. After, spread it on a flat dish to cool. In another pot, put the grated coconut, jaggery or sugar, leave aside till coconut becomes soft. Add rice, food colouring (optional), cardamom, nutmeg powder, raisins and almonds. Sweet coconut rice is ready.