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How to make Coconut Milk at Home / Homemade Coconut Milk / Thengai Paal

September 4, 2013 By Aarthi 16 Comments

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Coconut Milk is the base of many of the southindian cooking. Most of my recipes uses first extract and second extract of coconut milk. I have been getting lots of mails from my viewers to post homemade coconut milk recipe. I dont know why i didn’t post this till now, because i have been using coconut milk in my cooking often. So here you go to the recipe..Watch out for more coconut milk based recipes..

Preparation Time : 10 mins
Makes : 1 cup of Thick coconut Milk & 1.5 cup of Thin Coconut Milk


Ingredients:

Freshly Grated Coconut – 2 cups
Water – 1.5 cup

Method:

Take a good blender, add the coconut in it and blend them. Add in 1/2 cup of water slowly so it gets blended properly and finely.

Now pour this coconut mixture through a sieve. Press it with a spoon so the coconut milk gets collected in  a bowl.Press hard to extract as much milk as possible. This is the first coconut milk which is thick and creamier.

Now add the remaining coconut pulp in the blender and add in 1 cup of water and blend again.

Pass this through a sieve again and let it strain. Press to remove as much milk as possible. This is the second coconut milk which is little thin.

You can stop at this point or go ahead and extract third coconut milk if needed.

Use this in your favorite recipes..

Pictorial:

You need fresh coconut
Add it to blender
grind them first
add some water
make into a smooth paste
line a bowl with a sieve
add the coconut puree in this
press with a spoon
all milk is extracted
first coconut milk
add the remaining coconut in blender again
add some more water
puree again
pass through sieve
press again
all milk extracted
second coconut milk
Use in your favorite recipes

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Over the past few years I’ve been on a mission to find and create recipes that I can make from scratch. I hope you enjoy the recipes on this blog as they are tried and true from my kitchen to yours!

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  1. Coral crue

    September 4, 2013 at 11:11 am

    so useful, especially with the step by step pics. now i will be able to do it correctly.thanks!

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  2. Anonymous

    July 18, 2014 at 9:28 am

    The pictorial display is really very good and helpful. …

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  3. Anonymous

    September 2, 2014 at 8:23 pm

    Wao…its cheap at home

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  4. Anonymous

    December 2, 2014 at 2:53 am

    What to do with remaining coconut in chalni..

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  5. Aarthi

    December 2, 2014 at 7:27 pm

    @AnonymousYou have extracted all the milk, now there is no taste flavour in that coconut. You can throw it away.

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  6. preethi

    February 19, 2015 at 9:15 pm

    How to store this coconut milk for Further use.

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  7. Aarthi

    February 20, 2015 at 1:21 pm

    @preethiu cannot store this for long time use.

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  8. ANJALI JAIN

    June 14, 2015 at 11:09 am

    Hey, can you please clarify is the fresh coconut used is the one with dark brown cover?

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  9. Aarthi

    June 17, 2015 at 5:50 am

    @ANJALI JAINyes the same one.

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  10. Anonymous

    July 28, 2015 at 9:16 am

    Shall we cook this in normal kadai instead of aapam chatti

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  11. Aarthi

    July 29, 2015 at 10:17 am

    @Anonymousu can make appam in normal dosa tawa. cover with a lid.

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  13. 192.168.1.1

    September 20, 2016 at 8:41 am

    nice! thank you so much! Thank you for sharing. Your blog posts are more interesting and impressive. I think there are many people like and visit it regularly, including me.

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  14. hema

    March 3, 2018 at 7:50 am

    Hi,

    Can you mention how long we can store this ?

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  15. malik

    March 27, 2021 at 9:00 pm

    Seriously you say now tonight you tell your plans me try my bast

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  16. Malik

    March 27, 2021 at 9:04 pm

    You like now where or what time

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