Coconut Cream: Use, Benefits, Recipes

Coconut cream is a new product on the shelves of our stores. He can not yet boast of enviable demand, but this is due solely to the lack of information. In the West, coconut cream 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 fruit of the coconut 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 their consistency. Density of the product varies depending on the number of produced wring-offs. Creams are both quite liquid, and very thick. For example, after one pressing, 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

Dieticians say that this product is extremely useful. 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, which is 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, decorated with fluffy 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 in domestic 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 sauces, 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.

Whisk 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 crushed fruit pulp (mango, banana, nectarine) or half a glass of coconut shavings in the blender . Try a lot: maybe you need sugar? Sweeten to taste, again, carefully beat everything, put it in a bowl and send it to the freezer.

This product is also excellent 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 cream bartenders 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 cook "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 a thorough beating, the liquid is poured into a wine glass and decorated with a cocktail cherry.

And tropical creams are unusually good with brewed black coffee.