Many of us love an exotic product like coconut. In addition to being very healthy and nutritious, it is also delicious. The milk and pulp of the fruit are used in cooking for desserts, and the nut goes well with various meat and vegetable dishes. Everyone can choose in a store and bring home a product, but very few know how to split a coconut. Of course, you can throw it on the floor with all your might or hit it with a hammer, but at the same time the flesh will get dirty and the milk will pour out. You should not resort to radical methods if everything can be done beautifully and accurately.
On the shelves of these nuts get already peeled, so it is not so difficult to chop coconut. Everyone can have a home-made method of extracting milk and pulp, but the easiest way is to first drink or pour liquid into a glass, and only then completely break the shell. On the one hand, each coconut has three dark eyes, these are the places for which it was attached to the palm tree. You should pick out two of them with a knife and put them in one tube, through which you can drink milk or pour it into a container. In some cases, if the shell does not lend itself, you must resort to the use of a drill.
Before chopping a coconut, you should decide what to do with milk. You need to use it right away, because outside the shell it spoils quite quickly. When the liquid is drunk or drained, it is possible to start producing pulp. Although this nut seems so impregnable, but in fact there is nothing heavy here, you just need to know how to chop the coconut. At a distance of 1/3 from the eyes to the other end, he has a weak spot, which should be beaten.
Before chopping coconut, it must be laid on a hard surface, and then hit with a hammer or blunt side of the knife on the intended side. Insert a knife into the crack that appears and split the fruit into two halves. In some cases, coconut can be very hard and not give in, then it must be placed for 5 minutes in the oven, preheated to 200 ° C. The shell will become more fragile and supple.
It is important to know not only how to split a coconut, but also how to choose it. In stores, fruits get already cleared of the fibrous membrane, so their weight usually does not exceed a kilogram. From one coconut you can get about 0.5 kg of pulp and 300 ml of milk. Before buying a fruit, you need to inspect from all sides, so that it does not rot, cracks, mold. You always need to choose the coconut that is heavier, milk must splash in it. If, when tapping, only a dull sound is heard, then the product is spoiled, its middle has dried. The mold on the shell indicates corruption and inside.
Coconut milk and pulp can be used to make drinks, salads, pastries, various desserts, soups and sauces. If necessary, the pulp can also be stored in the refrigerator, previously cut into strips and sprinkled with milk. This delicacy goes well with fish or chicken. Dried shavings go to decorate cakes, pastries and other confectionery.
