Hi,

does anyone have an idea how to use unground coconut in food? It
doesn't become soft in cooking.

floe

Hayabusa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> does anyone have an idea how to use unground coconut in food? It
> doesn't become soft in cooking.
>
> floe

By unground do you mean Whole? Perhaps as a bowl for a dip or a
container for a liquid beverage. As if that beverages weren't liquids...

Personally I like my coconut shredded. Or used to make coconut milk/cream.

Hayabusa wrote:

> Hi,
>
> does anyone have an idea how to use unground coconut in food? It
> doesn't become soft in cooking.
>
> floe

As a child, I'd sometimes get fresh coconut flesh and it it as it was.
Is that the kind you mean?

On Sun, 18 Dec 2005 20:59:45 +0100, jake >
wrote:

>Hayabusa wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> does anyone have an idea how to use unground coconut in food? It
>> doesn't become soft in cooking.
>>
>> floe
>
>As a child, I'd sometimes get fresh coconut flesh and it it as it was.
>Is that the kind you mean?

Yup. I just think there might be a way to use it this way. Of course I
know that shredded coconut is a delicious ingredient to curry plates;
it mellows the spiciness and increases the other tastes. But the pure,
hard coconut, either fried or whatever, - I have so far found no use
for it, and still I think someone out there might know something.

fkoe

Hayabusa wrote:

> I know that shredded coconut is a delicious ingredient to curry plates;
> it mellows the spiciness and increases the other tastes. But the pure,
> hard coconut, either fried or whatever, - I have so far found no use
> for it, and still I think someone out there might know something.

Try this: Combine coconut chunks, Brazil nut chunks, jícama chunks, salt,
sour orange juice, powdered chile of your choice (depending on your
tolerance for capsaicin), and cilantro. Use it to dress fish tacos or as a
simple relish for broiled fish.

Bob