Coconut has a specific taste, for which many loved this tropical miracle. Coconut flesh leaves no one indifferent! Various dishes and drinks are prepared from coconut, and even used in cosmetics. Only not everyone knows how to carve a coconut.
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Ripe coconuts have a very thick peel, a real impenetrable shell. You need to be able to properly carve coconut in order to enjoy its pulp and milk.
The coconut in the shell has three eyes, one of them must be pierced. It’s not so difficult - use a knife or a spoke. Hole done? It's time to shake the milk out of coconut. By the way, the older the coconut, the less milk will be in it. Coconut water eventually turns into coconut milk, then into pulp.
Now it's time to take up the hammer. Wrap the shell with a towel or bag so that the entire apartment is not littered in the process.
Hammer the coconut shell. Usually the shell is easily separated from the pulp, but there are times when the pulp is very tight against the shell. Here you will need to take a knife and they carefully separate the flesh of the coconut from the shell.
When the whole shell is removed, it is necessary to peel the coconut from the brown peel. This is done with a knife or a peeler. Although you can not clean the flesh from the skin, because it contains a lot of dietary fiber and nutrients.