This article is a step by step description of how to make Coconut Candy. They are various kinds of coconut candies but we are emphasizing on the kind made specifically in Nigeria. This candy itself is easy to make, just that it involves a little more work to grate the coconut meat into little pieces.
Ingredients:
1 head fresh coconut with the juice
200 g of icing sugar
Water
Preparation
Break open the coconut
Collect the coconut juice
Remove the meat from the shell
Grate the meat into small pieces( make sure you grate along the coconut meat and not across it, so as to get long thin coconut pieces rather than a mass of grated coconut.)
Directions
Pour the coconut juice in a pot.
Add icing sugar and stir
Add the grated coconut pieces and stir
Add water of the same quantity as the coconut juice to the mixture.
Cover the pot and let it boil at high heat.
Once its boiling, continuously still till water is almost evaporated.
Reduce the heat to low and continue stirring.
Keep stirring till the coconut pieces turn slightly brown.
Turn off heat and scoop the hot coconut candy to a flat plate and leave to cool.
You can serve as dessert or snack once it is cold.
Things to watch out for
The candy should be sticky and not dry when cold.
You can store it in a refrigerator for up to a month
It is a sweet snack that's why we have sugar in the preparation, but you can reduce the sugar content according to your taste.
Better to clean the pot as soon as you scoop off the candy, because the caramel from the sugar can be very tough to clean off the pot once it cools.
Other uses of the Coconut Plant
Exocarp or Fibrous husk: When it is soaked in salt water, its fibers are separated to produce coir. Coir is commonly used material in creating ropes, mats, and coarse clothes.
Endocarp: This is also used as a material in different handicrafts. In cooking, its shells are used in producing charcoal and creating dishes and kitchen utensils
Endosperm or Coconut meat: The meat or nut is a good source of protein and acts as a natural laxative. The meat has many uses like animal feeds, flower, desiccated, milk, chips, copra, candies, latik, salad, and other sweet delicacies
Liquid Endosperm or Coconut water: The water inside the young fruit is the purest and most health benefitting water. It provides proper hydration of the body, natural cleansing of the kidney, and balances the electrolytes in the body.
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