I bought a coconut! Now What???

[Holli]

This probably sounds incredibly lame, but I just bought my first young thai coconut and I have no idea what to do with it! Can I just cut it open and eat it like I would a melon? Should I juice it? Blend it? I keep picturing Alissa in her jacuzzi with a straw sticking out of hers...how'd she get the straw in there?? Does that really work?? :confused: :confused: What do you all do with your coconuts?

[EZ rider]

Here's a video of someone opening a young coconut:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hkJJZuf2Voc

I like to put the young coconut juice and pulp into the blender and blend smooth for a delicious drink.

[StarFire]

OMG!! HOW FUN!! young coconuts are THE BEST!!! watch the video... and then -- drink the water -- then chop the rest open and enjoy the meat!! so much you can do with it... if its a young coconut -- I'd just eat the scoop meat and enjoy it!!


rawk on... !! enjoy the adventure!!

http://i149.photobucket.com/albums/s43/FireStar_830/th357582627l0ng1ru-11.gif

[jacsam]

I like to make two good sized smoothies with mine. It makes them extra smooth and creamy....also adds a bit of a different tast.

[lori ann]

I usually put the water and meat and add mango or pineapple and make great smoothies :)

[oai]

i hack at it. then, i drink all the juice & scoop out the meat. it's so delicious as it is. :p it's one of the best fast foods, if you're really good at the hacking. :cool:

[sweetlou]

nice link there.. "EZ rider" :D
i had never thought that i could do so much with a coconut..

[GlimR]

Opening the coconut is very easy once you get the hang of it! And fun!!!:D
I put the water and meat in the VM and blend till very smooth...add a squirt of agave and a dash of vanilla, blend.....I use this over rawnola...delicious!! If it is really thick, I just eat it with a spoon~ Yum!!!!

[SmilingRawDancer]

As above mentioned - to me, the most satisfying way to eat is:
Open, pour water into vitamix, scoop meat into vitamix.
Add vanilla, cacao and some cinnamon, along with a tad of salt and ice, and blend away. It's the best thing EVER. I swear, if I had to pick one food to live on....coconut shakes. THE BEST.

[GlimR]

SRD~
Thanks for the yummy supper idea~:D

[Holli]

Thanks so much for the ideas! The video was very helpful...I'm off to open my first coconut and make my first coconut shake! I'll let you know how it goes. :D

[SmilingRawDancer]

I've had one every day for the past week....

Ahhhh indulgence :)

[Holli]

WOW! I think I found my new favorite thing! I just want to make sure that I've done it correctly. I cut off the top like in the video and opened up the nut. I poured the water into the blender and scraped all the white coconut fat in to the blender as well...I just tossed the rest...the outside of the coconut is just trash right? It seemed to fibrous to do anything with. Two more questions: Is the water in the nut "coconut milk" ? And is the white yogurt textured stuff, coconut "meat"? Just want to know for future recipes.

Well, whatever they are I put the water and meat into the blender with frozen pineapple, fresh oj and a dash of agave and it tasted like an orange julies! So dang good!

[EZ rider]

Is the water in the nut "coconut milk" ? And is the white yogurt textured stuff, coconut "meat"? Just want to know for future recipes.Here's a link to info about coconuts:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut

Scroll down the page to "culinary" for the description there :)