How to Extract Coconut Milk from a Coconut

Coconut milk tastes great, I personally love to use the coconut milk extract for my smoothies and fruithies, it adds that extra silk, classy and exotic taste to drinks or even recipes.

However, most people do not know how to extract the coconut milk and due to that settle for the canned coconut milk, which , according to researchers could be detrimental to ones health.

Not to worry, here are easy steps you can take to extract coconut milk from a coconut, now you can enjoy your coconut milk by yourself, with family and friends.

What you need

A bowl

Corkscrew to pierce the eyes

Sharp implement for Cracking the coconut

And a blender

Directions

• The first thing to do is to pierce the three black eyes with a sharp instrument 

• Then you drain the watery juice out of the eyes ( this is not your milk :) 

• Crack open the coconut with a sharp instrument 

• Remove the white meat from inside the two halves of the coconut shell.

• Wash the coconut meat and cut into tiny pieces

• Place the coconut meat in a blender, add warm water (Vary the amount of water to produce thicker or thinner milk) and grind into a smooth paste

• Pour the mixture of coconut milk and chaff into a sieve and squeeze out as much milk from the chaff as possible.

Tuna Sandwich

Food is that one thing a man cannot do without, apart from it being that entity that we need daily to survive, the food also serve so many other purposes like it being a beautiful art, a luxury, that thing that adds flavour to your life and to others, that thing that either keep you away from the doctor or help you heal faster, stay healthy or manage a health condition.

Bilkisu sent in this amazing recipe (tuna sandwich, cinnamon and ginger infused green tea) that she tags 'breakfast for diabetics. It is not a new knowledge that vegetables are great for our health, so is the ginger infused tea which is basking with great health benefits 

Bilkisu, apart from being a great cook that has come up or thought us different recipes, also care for what one most eat to stay healthy.

Here is how Bilkisu made her amazing breakfast for Diabetics:

Ingredients

Hummus( chickpea)
Whole wheat Bread
Cucumbers
Tomatoes
Tuna fish
Avocado
Ginger
Cinnamon stick
Honey
Lemon
Green Tea

Directions

Tuna sandwich:

• Spread hummus(chickpea spread) on wholewheat toast.

•  Layer sliced cucumbers, tomatoes and slices of grilled or pan fried tuna on the toast to make sandwich.

• Serve with avocado

Cinnamon and ginger infused green tea:

• Boil water with fresh ginger and cinnamon stick.

• Allow to infuse for 5mins then use it to brew the green tea.

• Serve with honey and lemon.

Submitted By Bilkisu Ibrahim

Coconut and Date (Dabino) Drink

We all love sweet stuffs, could be sweet drinks, candy, ice cream and so on. Our taste bud just crave for that sweet thing and we can do anything or spend a lot to satisfy that need .

However, most people associate sweet stuffs to being unhealthy and then we try to stay away from them regrettably.

Our subscriber, Haj Swat has come up with an alternative drink for us, which is both healthy as well as sweet and tasty. This is the coconut and Dabino drink and now we can satisfy our taste bud without worrying about how detrimental it is to our health.

This is how she made it.

Ingredient:

Coconut.

Date(dabino).

Peak milk.

Water

 Directions

• Get your coconut and scrape the back and make sure you remove the brownish part... Wash and keep in a bowl.

• Break the Date(dabino) and remove the seed inside. Wash and put it together in the same bowl with the coconut.. Add water and soak it for an hour..

• Get your blender and blend it, using the same water you use in soaking the coconut and date(dabino).

Note: you can add more water if you wish but not too much...

• After blending it, you get your sieve and sieve it..

• After sieving you add your peak milk and put it in the Refrigerator...

• Drink it when chill...

After trying this, you will always wanna have it...

Enjoy!!!

 

 

Health Benefit of coconut and Date(Dabino)
Coconut:

 1. Helps Prevent Obesity.
2. Improves Heart Health.
3. High in Dietary Fiber.
4. Improves Digestion.
5. Quick Energy Boost etc


Health Benefit of Date(Dabino):

 Dabino is high in fibre and contains lots of natural sugars. It can be used in place of sugar in a smoothie,  milkshakes and cakes.

It’s a good source of potassium which helps in improving overall health. Potassium gives relief from stroke, anxiety,  stress, helps with blood pressure,  heart and kidney disorders.

From Hajia Swat

 

 

 

To learn more about the Nigerian Food Community click here

To view the Nigerian Food Community Home click here

To view our post on the Nigerian Food Community Food, click here

To view our post on the Nigerian Food Community Health Tips, click here

To view our post on the Nigerian Food Community Lifestyle here 

If you want to share your recipe with this blog, you can submit your recipes to bbmc.ngrfood@yahoo.com   

If you also want to submit an article to this blog, you can submit them to  bbmc.ngrfood@yahoo.com  

Click C00219980 to join our Black Berry Messenger Channel for updates on recipes, other peoples recipes (food selfies or Food recipes), food, health tips, kitchen tips and so much more.