While in the Solomon Islands, I've committed to learning how to make my own coconut milk. Despite my apprehension, or any encouragement from friends who don't understand why I don't ask my housemaid to do it (oh it's a hard life here), I want to learn how to make this funny looking fruit into creamy white deliciousness, the only white deliciousness here that I'm not dependent on a shipment from Australia from (on a happy note, the last boat brought in chocolate soy milk! JOY!).
I'm the proud owner of a coconut scraper - a wooden board with a jagged circular metal saw thing on the end. This weekend I will be purchasing a bushknife, and a strainer, and then we'll see what happens!
For anyone else who wants to take this journey/cluck in sympathy at my stupidity... here's what my Solomon Islander friends told me to do (in between giggles and asking if they could come and watch):
Step one: whack the coconut open with the blunt edge of the knife. Do this over a container to try and capture as much of the water/juice inside as you can.
Step two: Scrape, scrape, scrape. I've been assured this will take me, the weak white novice, up to an hour to do. I've also been told that I will probably cut my hands with the scraper multiple times and put blood in the coconut, therefore ruining it for anyone else to eat.
Step three: Put all the coconut "meat" into a strainer (with a container underneath) and push, push, push. Mix with the coconut juice if you want it stronger.
Tadaaa... coconut milk.
Now let's just see how brave I am...
I'm the proud owner of a coconut scraper - a wooden board with a jagged circular metal saw thing on the end. This weekend I will be purchasing a bushknife, and a strainer, and then we'll see what happens!
For anyone else who wants to take this journey/cluck in sympathy at my stupidity... here's what my Solomon Islander friends told me to do (in between giggles and asking if they could come and watch):
Step one: whack the coconut open with the blunt edge of the knife. Do this over a container to try and capture as much of the water/juice inside as you can.
Step two: Scrape, scrape, scrape. I've been assured this will take me, the weak white novice, up to an hour to do. I've also been told that I will probably cut my hands with the scraper multiple times and put blood in the coconut, therefore ruining it for anyone else to eat.
Step three: Put all the coconut "meat" into a strainer (with a container underneath) and push, push, push. Mix with the coconut juice if you want it stronger.
Tadaaa... coconut milk.
Now let's just see how brave I am...
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