How to make coconut milk?

Coconut milk is an unusually useful and nutritious product. If you wish, you can buy it already in the finished form, however, it is worth a quality product that is expensive. And you can make a little effort and independently get a high-quality and natural product. How to make yourself cooked coconut milk?

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Alone Obtaining a milk from coconut

In order to get natural coconut milk, you need to prepare the actual coconuts (one or more) and hot (the temperature is close to boiling) water.

• Catch the coconut. Good assistance in this issue has a hammer.
• Next, separate the coconut pulp from the fetal shell. It is not worth removing a thin brown skin - it is about it that contains the lion's share of fats and useful elements.
• Fuck the pulp on a small grater. If you have such automated helpers as a blender or food processor, you can use their capabilities at hand.
• The resulting coconut mass connect with hot water based on the ratio of 1: 1.5, where "1" is part of the coconut, "1.5" - the amount of water. Carefully smear the resulting composition.
• When the mass be cooled, overtake it through a sieve or skip through a blender.
• The resulting substance is strained through a gauze folded in several layers. Cake from coconut, which was delayed in the gauze filter, also squeeze. In the future (after drying), it can be used as coconut chips or powder. Dry coconut cake easier in the oven - spread the coconut mass on the parchment, install the minimum power of the flame and leave the door ajar.
• Coconut milk of own cooking is ready.

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Rules for using home coconut milk

• It is important to remember that the home product does not contain emulsifiers (substances that prevent the separation of water and fats), so coconut cream will be raised during the storage to the surface, and water will remain at the bottom. Before use of milk it is necessary to shabby.
• The maximum shelf life of homemade coconut milk is 4 days.

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The benefits of coconut milk

• This product is an excellent alternative to traditional cowhide milk, it can be eaten by people with lactose intolerance.
• In milk, vitamins (a, c, e, elements of the group B), iron, calcium and fatty acids are present.
• Coconut milk components normalize blood sugar and cholesterol levels, stimulate more productive glucose metabolism.
• Coconut product strengthens the immune system, protects the body from the negative effects of free radicals.
• Coconut milk normalizes metabolic processes, so it's great for those who follow their weight.