Coconut Recipes That Make You Feel Like You Are In The Tropics

Coconut Recipes presented show you just a few ways that you can enjoy a coconut.

The coconut is a fruit much like a large nut, with a hard brown casing and covered with strong hairs coming out of its skin, its interior is a delicious sweet liquid.

Some Recipes

The coconut lasts 2 to 5 days after opening, store in water in the refrigerator, if you hear the sound of water inside it is very mature and will not last long. The aroma should be very sweet and pleasant. the color of the meat is very white, when it is very ripe it is yellow and tastes bad. the right time to use is 5 months after harvesting from the tree. Production time is between February and July.

Recipe for Coconut Rice or Arroz con Coco (Spanish)

• 1 Pound of Rice
• 1 Coconut from the fruit market.
• 1 Box of raisins
• A little salt
• Sugar to your taste
• 3 Cups of Coconut milk

Break the coconut and remove the white meat of the coconut, put in a blender with enough water to produce 3 cups, strain and only use this milk. Add a little cooking oil to the pan, the 3 cups of coconut milk and wait until it boils, add three spoons of sugar, a pinch of salt, add the rice and the raisins and cook at medium heat, when there are holes in the rice remove and por water over the pan to lower the temperature then put back on the burner until the rice is dry and soft.

Sweet Coconut

• 1/2 pound of sugar
• 1 Box of Raisins
• 1 Coconut
• Cinnamon
• 2 Cups of Water

Ice Coconut
Remove the white meat from the coconut.Put in a blender with water and sugarPour into small glasses and put in the freezer until frozenRemove when ready to serve

Perfect Tanning Oil
Remove the white white meat from the coconut and put in a blender with water. Once liquified place in a pan. Leave to coolAdd Vitamin E and carrot juice Put in a glass bottle in a cool place for a day. Put on your skin for 20 minutes then leave the sun for the shade Put on Aloe gel Do not use in the hot sun of Santa Marta, just in the morning from 7am to 9 am and 4pm to 6 pm.

First put the ice cubes in the blender, then the vodka, rum, the lime, creme de coco then turn on high, pour inside the coconut, garnish with cherries on long sticks with umbrellas.

Refreshing Coconut Water

• In the high thin coconut palms find a nice green coconut.
• Get the coconut
• Cut the top off
• Put ice inside
• Add sorbet
• Enjoy the sun

Important Coconut Recipes

Coco Loco Cocktail

• 2 oz Vodka
• 2 oz White Rum
• 1 oz Lime Juice Fresh
• 1 oz Creme de Coco
• 3 Ice Cubes
• Pineapple for decoration

Coconut Uses

• Cooking
• Cosmetics cosmetic products as soaps, creams, shampoo
• Women’s hair
• Shell or outer covering, ornaments, earrings, belts, animal figures and more.
• Medicine

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