Coconuts are not exotic for a long time and sold in almost all grocery stores - in hypermarkets, for sure. Many hostess use a dry coconut chips to decorate confectionery products, but not everyone knows that the finished chips usually contains flavors, and dyes. It is the latter that make chips by the product that you should not use constantly, especially since it is impossible to prepare anything interesting with chips. But the natural coconut pulp can be added to any dishes.
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Coconut pulp is used in the preparation of all sorts of snacks, first and second dishes. Coconut milk add to yogurts and various desserts. Snow-white fragrant pulp in the form of small pieces can be served on the table in kind and eat it simply as ordinary nut.
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In which dishes you can use coconut pulp, milk and chips, you can familiarize yourself hereBut how to get this very flesh - we are now learning. First of all, you need to buy a good major coconut - the nuts should be evenly sourced by brown fibers, it should not have dents and various spots.
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At the top of the coconut (in the area of \u200b\u200bthe place where the tail is growing with a watermelon) you can see three small eyes. You need to take a thin sharp knife or even a screwdriver and carefully, but confidently, to divert two of them. Now it is worth tilt the coconut toward one of the holes and substitute a container under it. Due to the fact that air will begin to flow through the second hole, the transparent liquid is poured - coconut milk. It is very pleasant to taste and you can just drink.
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Then the coconut must be put on the side, and mentally retreating from the holes a distance of 1/3 of its length, confidently to hit this place with a large cutting knife, his stupid side. Turning the coconut around its degree axis by 15-20, hit the knife along the mental line again. Coconut turning and hitting the knife over it until it splits along the strike line. Or as soon as the slot appears that it is possible to insert a knife into it, then it is possible to split the knife with a knife to split the nut.
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Some amateurs after being made a couple of blows with a knife, cast coconut on the ground - and then it splits into small parts. This is also a method, but this can be done only if you are one hundred percent confident in the sterility of the floor in the kitchen and if you do not feel sorry for the germ or other coating.
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When the coconut is split, the inner snow-white elastic flesh can be separated from the shell using a small knife.
But the resulting flesh can already be eaten in the raw form, even add to all sorts of dishes. Bon Appetit!