Coconut meat recipes?

[ZeeMox]

I have a ton of extra coconut meat from making kefir. Is there a wrap or bread recipe people enjoy?

[Veganforlife]

Look in Alissa's book. She has a good number of recipes using that...

[ZeeMox]

Look in Alissa's book. She has a good number of recipes using that...
The only recipes that the index listing for "coconuts" actually lists a recipe uses more water than meat. I'm pretty much looking for a water-free, meat-intensive recipe. I was asking here because I was hoping people would know the names of some recipes off the tops of their heads. Going through the recipes one-by-one would take a while, and I'm lazy :o

[tzip]

Try a yummy pudding. Use coconut meat, coconut water or plain water _not much- vanilla, agave or dates to sweeten, and a dash of sea salt. You will need a high powered blender to make the pudding a creamy texture.
Enjoy!!

[smiley]

I love to make icecream with coconut meat. Raw food Real World has a great coconut icecream recipe.

How do you make kefir? I currently buy it from a raw vendor but would love to make my own. Where do you get your starter? Is it vegan? Cause the one I saw had milk in it. :eek:

Thanks for your advice.

[Veganforlife]

I know folks make noodles from the insides...

[StarFire]

I know folks make noodles from the insides...


I love making noodles out of the scoop meat coconut. The type of coconut you are speaking of ... is it soft scoop meat or hard coconut meat?

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this is Young Hawaiian scoop meat coconut -- to make noodles you need this consistency.

I make raw wraps with coconut meat - but I use the same soft coconut like above.

I'm sure you could make the wraps with the hard meat - you'll just have to shred it real good... I think... I'v never tried it though...

[ZeeMox]

I ended up making wraps and having spring rolls. Hurrah. If anyone's interested in making them, it's pretty easy. All I had to do was blend the meat with enough coconut water (I used kefir since I had extra) to get a crepe batter consistency. Spread very thin on a dehydrator sheet and give it a few hours at 105. Don't go too long though.


How do you make kefir? I currently buy it from a raw vendor but would love to make my own. Where do you get your starter? Is it vegan? Cause the one I saw had milk in it. :eek:

Thanks for your advice.
There are two types of kefir "grains", which are symbiotic colonies of beneficial yeast and bacteria, much like a Kombucha mother. Milk kefir grains require some kind of legitimate dairy to propogate, but water kefir grains are what you want for coconut kefir. You can find them on ebay - I bought mine from a vendor called Yemoos - but only because I couldn't find them locally. If you can find some nearby on craigslist or something, that's definitely the way to go.

Once you have the grains, it's super easy. 1 cup sugary water of some sort (coconut water in this case) to 1 tbsp grains and 24 hours later - bam - kefir. When they're happy, they'll grow pretty fast, and you can give extras to friends or freeze/dehydrate them as backups.

A lot of raw folk apparently make it from "starter packs" that the Body Ecology distributes, but these won't make authentic kefir. They will, however, make a very similar fizzy beverage, and are easier to get ahold of than kefir grains.