How to make Coconut Milk at home - Healthy and Affordable | Cooking Basics

Coconut milk is an essential part of south Indian and southeast Asian cuisines. Though there are many packaged coconut milk brands available in the market, it’s ideal to make it at home as it turns out healthier and way affordable than the market ones.

Ingredients:

• 1 Coconut

• 1 cup Water

Method:

• Wet the coconut in running water and remove its husks.

• Break the coconut into two parts and start grating the coconut.

• Transfer the grated coconut into a mixer jar and grind it with 10 tbsp of water. Do not add all the water at once – add little by little.

• Transfer the ground coconut into a strainer and place it atop a vessel.

• Squeeze the ground coconut well so that the extracted coconut milk collects in the vessel. This is the first milk aka thick coconut milk which is mainly used to thicken curries and soup.

• Now transfer the remaining coconut again into a mixer jar and grind with 4tbsp of water.

• Transfer this ground coconut into the strainer and place it atop a different vessel now.

• Squeeze the coconut well and now what is collected in the vessel is the second milk aka thin coconut milk.

Tips and Suggestions:

• Don’t throw away the husks, rather use them as natural body scrubber (loofah).

• Break the coconut atop a vessel so that you can collect the coconut water so that you can drink it or use it as a natural face spray.