A Love-a-ly Bunch of Coconuts - making your own raw coconut milk.

This is a labour of love. All the hard work your about to embark on is fully worth the glass of rich, creamy greatness you are left with in the end. In fact the only thing more fulfilling would be to grow and pick the coconuts yourself. To those who can, awwee luckieeee.....

Here's how I made my own coconut milk......

Get some coconuts and shake em around to make sure you can hear some liquid moving around in there. Then find yourself a hammer, mallet, brick, baseball bat or chainsaw. Choose whichever is most pleasing to you.

Locate the face on top of the coconut. The eyes and nose are especially soft and easy to pierce holes into for draining the water out. Although the coconut face has a cute, sad and scared little expression on don't be fooled. The coconut can be a rough and tough meanie and should be handled with necessary force, while, of course still holding love and gratefulness in your heart.

Pierce a hole in the face and drain out the liquid into a bowl. Then take the hammer, or your tool of choice, and start tapping around the equator of the coconut until splits in two. Scoop the coconut meat out from the shell.

( I couldn't up load the photo for these instructions for some reason, sorry)

Take a vegetable peeler and peel the brown skin from the meat. Hey, I didn't say this was gonna be pretty, a good job to spirit the hunter in all of us, even us raw vegans.

Grate the coconut meat with a cheese grater.

To the grated coconut add the reserved coconut water and some pure, regular H2O. You can play around with the quantities depending on how creamy you want it. You can't really mess up here, don't worry, just add the water bit by bit until you've reached the desired creaminess.

Then call on M. Le Hand Blender and thank him for all his wonderful uses. VRRRRMMMMM, le blend it up!

Strain the remaining meat from the milk.

 I then added fresh vanilla bean and raw honey and le bended the milk again. It was a delicious treat just like this.  You can also use it as a base for smoothies, or pour it on top of fruit for breakfast. Lots and lots of yummy things to do with coconut milk!

So, that's homemade raw coconut milk, enjoy! 

Bisous.