How Do You Buy Coconuts And Make Fresh Coconut Milk?
For really authentic coconut flavor in recipes that call for coconut milk or freshly grated coconut, you have to open and process the coconut yourself. Nothing beats the taste of fresh coconut cake, coconut shrimp, or ambrosia made with fresh coconut milk or meats. Learning how to buy, open, and process coconuts for their milk and meat is a necessary skill for anyone wanting to truly enjoy these heavenly tropical nuts. Step 1 Pick the best fresh coconut. To get good coconut milk and meat you have to have a fresh coconut and these days, unless you live in the tropics, those can be hard to come by. Shake the nut and listen for the liquid inside. You want nuts that make a good sloshy sound, that have lots of liquid in them. While this still does not guarantee that the coconut is good inside, it does increase the chances. The more liquid inside the nut the better and the heavier the better. Weigh several of the coconuts of the same size and pick the heaviest one as this is the one that has
