Coconut Milk Recipe using a Blender
Equipment
- Blender
- Cheese cloth/muslin cloth/nut milk bag
Ingredients
- 1/2 Mature Coconut brown coconut, wet NOT the dry one. This will be approx. 1 cup coconut when loosely packed in pieces size of about 1 cm x 1 cm
- 2.5 cup Water you can use 3-4 cups water, based on how thick or thin you like it. Luke warm water will give better result.
Instructions
- Remove the outer husk/shell of the coconut. No need to peel the inner brown skin
- Roughly chop into cubes of approximately 1cm x 1cm. You can also grate it.
- Add these to the blender with 1 cup of water and blend to form a smooth paste.
- Add another 1/2 cup of water and blend again.
- Strain this through a nut milk bag/muslin cloth. This is your first batch of coconut milk.
- Now you will have the remaining coconut pulp in the nut milk bag.
- Put this pulp back in the blender and blend again with half cup water and repeat step 5. This will be batch 2
Notes
- Sometimes I use the pulp from batch 1 in other recipes, in this case, I do not make milk from batch 2 as it helps to have some milk left in the pulp.
- If you do not want to use the pulp elsewhere, it is a good idea to make milk 2nd time. However, this milk will be a lot thinner.
- I prefer to keep batch 1 for recipes that require thick milk and keep batch 2 for recipes that require thinner consistency.
- This will make approximately 1.5 cups of thick coconut milk in batch one and about 1 cup thin coconut milk in batch 2.