Coconut Cream: Use, Benefits, Recipes

Coconut cream is a new product on our shelvesshops. He can not yet boast of enviable demand, but this is due solely to a lack of information. In the West, the cream of coconut is very widely used in cooking and is very popular.

Manufacturing

Many confuse coconut cream with coconut juice. The latter product is completely natural, it is formed in the cavity of the coconut fruit naturally. And the cream is made artificially: the pulp of coconut is crushed, and then squeeze the resulting gruel.

Cream thicker than ordinary coconut milk, but to taste very much like him. They are made from the pulp of ripe coconut.

The recipe for coconut cream causes themconsistency. Density of the product varies depending on the number of produced wrenches. Creams are both fairly liquid and very thick. For example, after one spin, a product resembling sour cream is obtained, and if the coconut pulp is soaked and squeezed repeatedly, you will get a drink that looks like a cow's milk, which is very diluted with water.

Technologically, of course, coconut cream is not cream. They are only squeezed from the flesh of the fetus.

The Benefits of Coconut Cream

Dietitians claim that this product is extraordinaryuseful. People suffering from cardiovascular diseases, nervous disorders and depression need to regularly include coconut cream in their diet. Recipes with this product are widely used in their unusual and healthy cuisine by vegetarians and vegans.

Cream contains many oils, vegetable fat and protein. They are extraordinarily rich in vitamins of group B and PP, iron and manganese, ascorbic acid.

Role in cooking around the world

Dishes, which include coconut cream,are popular throughout the world. Very respect this product in Thailand. There, on its basis, it is customary to prepare soup, served directly in a half of the coconut. Residents of tropical islands, for which coconut is one of the main food, add cream to desserts and pastries, served with fruit.

This dainty also fell in love with the Europeans. Delicate taste, tender consistency and a noble white shade impress the French, who cook ice cream, desserts and even sauces for meat and fish on the basis of this product. Europeans often call this product "Asian cream", emphasizing their tropical origin.

In America, a very popular coconut tree is adorned with lush foam, based on whipped coconut cream. This product perfectly harmonizes with homemade ice cream, white and black chocolate.

What to cook with coconut cream?

This product is not so easy to get indomestic stores. If you set out to get it, immediately go to the largest hypermarket with an abundance of foreign-made goods - maybe that's where you'll be lucky. It costs a relatively little, 200 rubles for a jar.

Soups, meat sauce, sauces for fish ... Perhaps, it is better to leave those who long ago became friends with such an unusual product as coconut cream. And beginners should start with simple dishes. For example, with ice cream. Doing it is easy, but the result is invariably good.

Beat with a mixer a liter of ordinary fat cream,add to them 500 ml of coconut. If you want to make the taste even more tropical, you can add a pulp crushed in a blender (mango, banana, nectarine) or half a glass of coconut shavings. Try a lot: maybe you need sugar? Sweeten to taste, again, thoroughly shake everything, put it in a bowl and send it to the freezer.

This product is also great for making all sorts of desserts based on Raffaello and Bounty: home-made sweets, cakes, cakes.

Whipped coconut cream can decorate cheesecakes, open fruit pies, salad cocktails.

Well aware of the properties of coconut creambartenders and barista. This ingredient is widely used in the preparation of a variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails, coffee. If you want to surprise guests with an unusual drink, you can prepare a "Kiss Under the Mistletoe." Make it like this: add 45 ml of vodka (preferably cranberry), pineapple juice, and 30 g of cream to the shaker. After thorough whipping, the liquid is poured into a wine glass and decorated with a cocktail cherry.

And tropical creams are unusually good with brewed black coffee.