Raw Kokosnoot As Well As Lime Pie
This was non simply pie-making, this was a coconutty lead a opportunity of grand proportions. Firstly, I needed coconut, inwards many dissimilar forms. I saw that Waitrose were selling pre-cut kokosnoot chunks but I ever experience far to a greater extent than righteous eating something I've made alone from scratch therefore I institute 2 of the hairiest coconuts I've ever seen inwards my local Asian shop, equally good equally picking upwardly kokosnoot crude oil too dessicated coconut. As I wandered abode something struck me; my kokosnoot swell experience was express to the strange kokosnoot falling too breaking from the kokosnoot shy schoolhouse fetes. I was approaching thirty too was missing a vital life skill.
Unsure how to approach this task, I asked roughly to run across if anyone had the skills I required, but unsatisfied alongside the responses, I turned to the ever reliable source: YouTube. Assisted yesteryear my expert friend too immature homo foodie, Vega Van Teese, nosotros assail an meshwork search to detect answers. Now, if yous lead maintain some fourth dimension on your hands too aren't scrolling straight off downward to the recipe, I implore yous to picket these videos. The offset 1 nosotros came across is a really slick American video involving something that bears no resemblance to whatever kokosnoot I've ever seen. Despite that, nosotros were mesmerised yesteryear the calmness of the lady alongside the cleaver too the repose alongside which she cutting straight off into the fruit, releasing vast quantities of kokosnoot H2O too easing the flesh out effortlessly alongside the help of a uncomplicated kitchen device.
However, my coconuts looked cypher similar that, therefore nosotros kept searching. We institute a much to a greater extent than realistic - too British - version from a homo inwards a far less glamorous kitchen who had really trivial regard for his ain safety. Bizarrely he also had what looked similar an anvil outside, really convenient for kokosnoot bashing. Highly amused yesteryear the divergence inwards these instructional videos, nosotros took the British approach. Armed alongside a spoon, a dangerously abrupt knife too a brick wall, nosotros laid virtually getting ourselves some kokosnoot flesh.
Warning 1: if yous exercise purchase a hairy coconut, it volition brand a huge mess inwards your kitchen.
Warning 2: if yous also create upwardly one's heed to "take the British approach", beware wayward bits of kokosnoot pinging into eyes equally yous hack away.
This recipe makes 1 pie inwards a 4" cake tin.
Ingredients:
Now, procedure or blend the remaining ingredients until yous lead maintain a smoothen paste. Pour the mixture into the cake tin, decorate alongside a fleck of dessicated kokosnoot too popular the whole affair inwards the freezer. It volition laid afterwards a few hours but yous tin store it inwards in that place for a duo of days if yous don't desire to consume it straight off away (I don't know why yous wouldn't..).
However, my coconuts looked cypher similar that, therefore nosotros kept searching. We institute a much to a greater extent than realistic - too British - version from a homo inwards a far less glamorous kitchen who had really trivial regard for his ain safety. Bizarrely he also had what looked similar an anvil outside, really convenient for kokosnoot bashing. Highly amused yesteryear the divergence inwards these instructional videos, nosotros took the British approach. Armed alongside a spoon, a dangerously abrupt knife too a brick wall, nosotros laid virtually getting ourselves some kokosnoot flesh.
Warning 1: if yous exercise purchase a hairy coconut, it volition brand a huge mess inwards your kitchen.
Warning 2: if yous also create upwardly one's heed to "take the British approach", beware wayward bits of kokosnoot pinging into eyes equally yous hack away.
This recipe makes 1 pie inwards a 4" cake tin.
Ingredients:
- 1/2 loving cup solid put down flax seed
- 1 1/2 cups dessicated coconut
- 8 dates, soaked for an hour
- 3 tbsp kokosnoot oil, melted
- 1/2 loving cup kokosnoot milk (I used Koko dairy free, non strictly raw. You tin role H2O equally an option or whatever other form of milk, it's simply for binding the ingredients together)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- Pinch of salt
- Flesh from 1 small-scale coconut
- 1 ripe small-scale avocado (very ripe!)
- Juice too zest of 2 limes
- 2 tsp kokosnoot sugar
- 1/4 loving cup agave nectar/maple syrup
In a nutrient processor, mix upwardly the flax, dessicated coconut, vanilla extract, salt, dates, 1 tsp kokosnoot carbohydrate too 1 tbsp kokosnoot oil. Depending on how mucilaginous your dates are, that mightiness already brand perfect "pastry". If it isn't quite binding together, add together a fleck of kokosnoot milk.
Press the mixture firmly into the bottom too sides of your cake tin. It should live on fairly thick.
Now, procedure or blend the remaining ingredients until yous lead maintain a smoothen paste. Pour the mixture into the cake tin, decorate alongside a fleck of dessicated kokosnoot too popular the whole affair inwards the freezer. It volition laid afterwards a few hours but yous tin store it inwards in that place for a duo of days if yous don't desire to consume it straight off away (I don't know why yous wouldn't..). Once yous lead maintain it out of the freezer, cutting your slices too exit them at room temperature for at to the lowest degree an hr earlier serving, otherwise you'll fille out on the lovely lime flavours.
If yous lead maintain whatever of the light-green mixture left, add together a fleck of chilli too dark pepper too consume it equally a dip alongside carrot sticks!
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