Ingredients:
1. Coconut Pieces or Grated Coconut : 1 cup (180 ml)
2. Water :180 ml
Procedure:
Selection of coconut suitable for milk extraction is equally important. A coconut that is neither too tender nor too mature yields thick milk.Too mature coconut yields thin milk. After breaking the coconut, separate the meat from the shell and cut it into small pieces. It is not necessary to remove the peel.
Transfer the coconut pieces into a mixer grinder jar. Add water just enough to make a fine paste. Pour the coconut paste and the remaining water into a milk bag and gently squeeze it, until all the milk in the paste is completely extracted. You can adjust the milk consistency by adding more or less water.
Heat this milk until lukewarm, using hot water bath method. Now pour this milk into a tumbler, add palm jaggery syrup to taste and consume.
NOTE:
The milk thus extracted can be given to kids from fifteen months of age. For infants between nine months to fifteen months of age, this milk has to be diluted further by adding five to seven tumblers of water to a tumbler of this milk. Parents will understand better whether the child is able to digest it well or not and accordingly make changes in consistency of milk. It is not necessary to give this milk in the same dilution as specified by us. Adults can consume coconut milk three times a week. People with cold, cough, allergies, or any respiratory related problems like sinusitis may consume warm coconut milk. This milk can be used as a perfect substitute for dairy milk in the preparation of sweet dishes. According to Dr. Khadar Vali, infants should be introduced to coconut milk at the time of weaning.
