Thursday’s Raw Recipe
I see lots of recipes that use young coconuts. I have bought one before, but it spoiled before I could use it-(like it sat in my fridge for 3 months!) So I bought another recently without a plan in mind. I had some left over fresh pineapple and thought it would go really well with the young coconut. That was if I could get the darn thing open!!!! Several knives later I remembered seeing directions in a cook book for opening young coconuts.
By the way, this is the first raw cook book I ever bought-at least 3 years ago. And do you want to know why I bought it-because who wouldn’t want to look like Sarma and Matthew! I thought if I ate raw food I would look just like them. Call me gullible or stupid. But marketing works.
Finally I was able to open the coconut and pour about 2 cups of water out of it!
Into the vita-mix it went along with the cocnut meat I was able to scrape out of the inside. This is fresh not dried coconut-so it’s a little different.
About 2 cups diced pinapple
1 orange-with the white still intact
2 frozen bananas
6 dates-which you may want to add less. I think my blades need sharpening so most of the dates are still in a clump at the bottom of my vita mix
1 cup frozen blueberries
splash of vanilla
The taste was like summer! It didn’t have a super strong coconut taste and it wasn’t too sweet. I froze what was left for a sorbet for later.
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