Now that you are all pros at cracking open coconuts, thanks to the video tutorial I posted yesterday, we can use all that beautiful creamy soft flesh to make our own Homemade Coconut Milk.
My oh my is this stuff ever good! I’m telling you, no matter how much I love my canned coconut milk, it doesn’t even come remotely close to this fresh homemade version in terms of taste.
That said, our home equipment is probably not quite as efficient at extracting all the goodness from the flesh than those commercial machines, so the texture isn’t exactly as thick and creamy. You couldn’t turn this one into whipped cream, for instance.
But still, the texture is craaaaazy creamy, pretty much like that of half and half cream. Seriously, you’ll want to just plain drink this straight from the jar… and I guess you could do that if you wanted to, there are no laws against that. You could even add a little bit more water, or coconut water, if drinking it was your intention.
But if you want to use it for cooking, or to put in your coffee, I find the consistency is just perfect!
And the taste. OMG. Did I tell you about the taste? It’s un-free-kin-buh-lee-va-ble. So fresh, so real, so fragrant… out of this world. It’s just like fresh coconut in the creamy liquid form. Really, you have to try it to understand what it is that I am talking about.
Let’s have you do just that.
Once you’ve got that coconut flesh all extracted from the hard shell and peeled and ready to go, just add it to your blender, along with the water from your coconut and an extra cup of plain filtered water.
Process that on the highest possible speed for at least 5 minutes, maybe even 10.
You really want to get the most out of that coconut flesh as you possibly can. You’ll notice, as the flesh spins around, that it will get looser and looser and will spin more freely after a while. You want to be able to see some liquid in there. A good amount of liquid!
When you feel your coconut has given all it had to give, transfer the contents of your blender to a fine mesh sieve that’s been lined with cheesecloth.
Add another half cup of plain water to your food processor and give it a quick spin just to get every last bit that was left behind. Add that to the rest of the fragrant pile of coconut.
Now comes the part that I hate (remember how I looooove squeezing water out of things?). You need to squeeze the bejesus out of this. And I do mean the beeee-jeeee-zzzzus. Squeeze until your hands turn blurry, like mine did!
