cray jr. made me buy a fresh coconut.
now what?
anyone have any good recipes where i can use this sucker?
now what?
anyone have any good recipes where i can use this sucker?
Well, first you've got to open the @#$^ thing. I recommend a hydraulic press, or perhaps dynamite.
Edit: In the unlikely event that you manage to open it, coconut creme brulee is really good.
Necro-thread timeThe liquid inside the coconut milk is coconut water. Coconut milk is made from freshly shredded coconut mixed with water, then squeezed to get all the liquid out of the coconut.
Also, here's a video showing how to open a coconut the easy way.
If you're looking for recipes that involve fresh coconut, I have a couple that I especially like - Pol Sambol and Pol Roti (pol means coconut in Sinhala ). I can dig up a bunch more, believe me. Freshly shredded coconut is used widely here.
You can drink it. My mother in law doesn't. In Sri Lanka, there are specific coconuts - called king coconuts - that are for drinking. The king coconuts have very little meat and are full of water, so full that frequently, when you first break into it, the water spurts a bit since it's under pressure. That's really really good drinking coconut water.Necro-thread time
I notice in the video that all the liquid goes down the drain - can you not drink it? Or use it some other way?
Also - for those of us who don't have either a score in our coconut or a handy machete, how do you get the blasted thing open?
Explosives are hard to come by in these parts too...
If the liquid is unpalatable, then there might be something wrong with the coconut. That's considered a sign that the coconut should be tossed in Sri Lanka.Laurie's video probably has a better way, but I couldn't get it to load(?).
The last time I had this problem I wrapped it in a towel and whacked it very long and very hard with a very big hammer. That worked, eventually.
The liquid that came out was completely unpalatable--not sure whether that's true of coconuts in general or if there was something wrong with that particular one.
Good luck.
They're readily available anywhere in Sri Lanka. Probably elsewhere in the region, too. Just about every Sri Lankan kitchen has at least one of them.I want a kitchen machete.