Coconut cream: uses, benefits, recipes

2024 Author: Isabella Gilson | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:14

Coconut cream is a new product on the shelves of our stores. It cannot yet boast of an enviable demand, but this is due solely to a lack of information. In the West, coconut cream is very widely used in cooking and is very popular.

Production

Many people confuse coconut cream with coconut juice. The last product is completely natural, it is formed in the cavity of the coconut fruit in a natural way. And the cream is produced artificially: the pulp of the coconut is crushed, and then the resulting slurry is squeezed out.

Cream is thicker than regular coconut milk and tastes very similar to it. They are made from the pulp of a ripe coconut.

The recipe for coconut cream determines its consistency. The density of the product varies depending on the number of spins produced. Cream is both quite liquid and very thick. For example, after one squeeze, a product is obtained that resembles sour cream, and if the coconut pulp is soaked and squeezed again, you get a drink that looks like a strongwater-diluted cow's milk.

Technologically, of course, coconut cream is not cream. They are just a squeeze from the pulp of the fruit.

Benefits of coconut cream

Nutritionists claim that this product is extremely useful. People suffering from cardiovascular diseases, nervous disorders and depression should definitely include coconut cream in their diet regularly. Recipes with this product are widely used in their unusual and he althy cuisine by vegetarians and vegans.

Cream contains a lot of oils, vegetable fat and protein. They are extremely rich in B and PP vitamins, iron and manganese, ascorbic acid.

Role in cooking around the world

Dishes containing coconut cream are popular around the world. This product is highly respected in Thailand. There, on its basis, it is customary to cook soup, which is served directly in half a coconut. Residents of tropical islands, for whom coconut is one of the staple foods, add cream to desserts and pastries, served with fruit.

Europeans also liked this delicacy. The delicate taste, delicate texture and noble snow-white shade impress the French, who prepare ice cream, desserts and even sauces for meat and fish based on this product. Europeans often call this product "Asian cream", emphasizing its tropical origin.

In America, the coconut pie is very popular, decorated with lush foam, which is based on whipped coconut cream. This product is in perfect harmony with homeice cream, white and dark 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 - you may be lucky there. It costs relatively little, 200 rubles per jar.

Soups, meat sauces, fish sauces… Perhaps it's best left to those who long ago made friends with such an unusual product as coconut cream. And for beginners, it’s better to start with simpler dishes. For example, with ice cream. It is easy to make and the result is consistently good.

Beat a liter of regular heavy cream with a mixer, add 500 ml of coconut cream to them. If you want to make the taste even more tropical, you can add fruit pulp (mango, banana, nectarine) crushed in a blender or half a glass of coconut flakes. Try the mass: maybe you need sugar? Sweeten to taste, beat thoroughly again, put in a bowl and send to the freezer.

This product is also great for making all kinds of desserts based on "Raffaello" and "Bounty": homemade sweets, cakes, cakes.

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

Bartenders and baristas are well aware of the properties of coconut cream. This ingredient is widely used in the preparation of a variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails, coffee. If you want to surpriseguests with an unusual drink, you can cook “Kiss under the mistletoe”. They do it this way: 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 glass and garnished with a cocktail cherry.

Tropical cream is also extraordinarily good with custard black coffee.