How to make Coconut Cream
Coconuts are a key ingredient in Samoan cooking. Every part of the coconut is used. You can eat the flesh raw or use it for cooking, you can drink the juice,the shell makes a handy cup or,together with the husks,you can fuel a cooking fire.The most widely used product from the coconut is coconut milk,so let me describe how the milk is traditionally made.
You will need
- Coconut/Popo
- Knife
- Scraper
- Coconut husk
- Bowl
Method
1.Gather all of your equipment and put it on a table.
2.Carefully using the back of your knife rotate the coconut and try to break the coconut both at the same time.
3.Turn the coconut as you scrape the coconut flesh into the bowl and make sure both sides of the popo is scraped.
4.Take the husk fibres add some coconut flesh and water into the husk squeeze this until cream comes out.
5.Repeat this with the rest of the flesh until even more cream comes out.
6.When the cream drys out you can use it for cooking feed it to the pigs or feed it to the chickens.
