Coconut milk is a recipe for creation and uses

It would seem, why should we focus on foreign products, if ours is enough: there is flour and eggs, and dairy products are represented by a huge variety ... So no! Need, you see, is corn flour, or ground almond, or, say, asparagus in a certain proportion. Honestly, I do not know if it's better for our stomachs to have such a variety of not quite familiar products, but the reality is this: every year we expand the range of products needed for cooking everyday food.

Recently has entered our almost daily diet and coconut. Of course, the great merit is that the Russian consumer so loved the exotic fruit, belongs to the candies "Bounty" and "Raphaelo." Delicate taste of delicacies is simply magnificent - and it is impossible to resist it! Then coconut shavings became widely used in cooking , which can be perfectly used as decoration for cakes and pastries of any complexity. Now the culinary specialists - both professionals and amateurs - have embarked on the development of another component of the exotic nut - coconut milk. It turned out that with his help you can cook a lot of great dishes, both sweet and meat.

The market immediately responded to the request of housewives and produced coconut milk canned - a kind of mushy product consisting of coconut milk and small shavings. However, not everywhere this luxury is available, and the price is not too big, so the question arose: how to cook coconut milk yourself? And, of course, Russian umelitsy figured out how to make coconut milk at home. The recipe is very simple: coconut shaving (this product in stores is no longer a deficit) to grind in a coffee grinder and combine with milk - it will take 0.5 liters. Shavings will go 200 grams, sugar - a tablespoon. All components are mixed, put on the fire and bring to a boil. Boiling mass boil on a very low heat for 15 minutes, filter, cool, achieve a thickening in the refrigerator - about 30 minutes. Attention! For a long time such milk can not be stored - it is better to immediately use it in baking.

If there is no milk usual, but there is a need to make coconut milk, the recipe is even simpler and has obvious advantages - the product is stored for a long time in the refrigerator. 600 g of water is boiled and add coconut chips in an amount of 250 grams, bring to a boil and the resulting mass is ground in a blender. Now we cool on gauze. A great product, completely replacing the one that is sold in the store, can be used for cooking any culinary masterpieces.

Well, now consider the options for recipes, for which coconut milk is useful.

The lamb's recipe with almonds

For cooking, you need a pound of meat, a bulb, an apple, a couple of carrots, seasonings to taste (good to take cumin, turmeric), olive oil, flakes of almonds and, of course, coconut milk. The recipe is simple: the meat is quickly fried in a small amount of butter. Dried on a napkin. Then all the ingredients are added to the cauldron and stew for about 35 minutes - until the mutton becomes tender. Pieces of meat should not be large - about 3 cm. Serve with almonds. Coconut milk completely interrupts the smell of mutton, and the taste is simply amazing!

Panna cotta

And now - sweet tooth, adoring coconut milk. The recipe for panna-cotta will require: 400 g of coconut milk, slightly more cream, 5 leaves of gelatin, a spoonful of brown sugar, mango and 6 tablespoons of powdered sugar. Gelatin soak, boil milk and cream, add gelatine to the resulting mass. Give the delicacy to freeze in the refrigerator. To decorate the dessert, use mango, fried in a frying pan in brown sugar. It seems that such a dessert can surprise even the most spoiled sweet tooth!