Coconut Milk

shoes34

When a recipe for deserts calls for coconut milk is it the same coconut milk that would be used for currys?

grandslamsmith

Certainly is, the groovy thing about it is it can be sweet or savoury...like cream. It's more a carrier of falvour and it's really like a blank canvass. Try making ice cream with it - blow you sideways.

Slam

Petite Treats

There is also a coconut milk that comes in a 1litre carton called 'Kara' - it has the texture of regular milk and does not have a strong coconut flavour unlike some of the canned coconut milks.

curly from cork

cans of low fat coconut milk also available if calories are a consideration.

Bill2673

OK really stupid question.....

Is it literally, crack open the coconut, pour the milk into a big vat and then can it.

Is it healthy? Good for you, so to speak.

grandslamsmith

Not really, the inside of the cocnut is full of water and white 'flesh'. Coconut milk is essentially the flesh of the nut and any liquid wazzed up to make the milk.

Healthy? Yes but is small doses - it's a diarrhetic and heavy on the cals as it's very oilly.

Slam

Bill2673

ta....

so if I am making a coconut milk curry and lob a can of it in, does that constitute an excess....? for example if i consumed half the can, or 1/3rd of it?

grandslamsmith

You'll find a lot of curry base sauces are just the curry paste with the coconut milk then lobbed in.

If it's cals you're worried about then temper your 'meat' selection ie use fish or prawns. or just leave teh milk out completely, use stock and cream it up with some low fat yoghurt.

Personnally I'm a sucker for coconut milk in my currys

Slam

unkel

curly from cork wrote: »

cans of low fat coconut milk also available if calories are a consideration.

Wouldn't recommend the low fat coconut milk. It's just watered down proper coconut milk