How to make coconut cream: juicing a coconut, health benefits, and culinary uses.

How to make coconut cream in your kitchen can be done quite easily with the right juicer.

Yes, you heard that right - a juicer!

Raw coconut cream is kind of similar to raw coconut milk which you can also make.

However, raw coconut cream contains less water and has a much thicker consistency. 

Learning how to make coconut cream can provide you many surprising and unusual health benefits.

This rich and thick tropical raw cream has a light sweet taste that has many delicious culinary uses.

At one point in my life, I was involved in a raw coconut cream business and had a great experience with this special nutrient dense food.

Juicing a coconut: how to make coconut cream with mature coconuts.

We have made raw coconut cream in small and in large batches using various types of juicers.  It's important to look for mature coconuts and organic is better, but not absolutely necessary. 

It's also important to warm up your mature coconuts to make the juicing process easier.  You can do this by raising the temperature of your house to about 80 degrees for about an hour prior to juicing.

Please keep away from coconuts that are cracked, moldy, or have very little coconut water in them.

It's best to drain the coconut water before cracking open your coconut. 

Locate the softest of the three coconut eyes and then poke that eye with a sharp object like a screwdriver.

Then drain the coconut water into a bowl or glass jar.  You can save this coconut water to drink for later.

Although, we would always taste the coconut water to get a feel for the quality of the coconut.  If it passed the taste test, we would proceed to the next step which is the scariest part of how to make coconut cream.

There are many different ways to crack open a coconut, but the easiest is probably using a hammer and hitting the middle of the coconut.

The indented line that runs around the center of the coconut is the equator line.  Just hold the coconut firmly with one hand and hit the equator line of the coconut with a hammer.

Do this several times while carefully rotating the coconut until it cracks open.

Carefully, scoop out the coconut meat with an appropriate tool and use leather gloves for extra protection.

Using a coconut meat removal tool will make this job much easier.

Be sure to rinse the coconut meat with clean water or use the coconut water.

You will then need to cut the mature coconut meat into smaller pieces and throw away any off-colored pieces of coconut.

Feed the small pieces of coconut meat into a Greenstar, Champion, or other "appropriate" juicer.  Juicing the coconut meat gets rid of the pulp or fiber which is how to make coconut cream.

Be sure to use a juicer that effectively removes the pulp without creating much heat.  You don't want the cream or the pulp/fiber to go above 95 degrees F.

Important tip: it is best to grate the coconut meat and the fastest way is to use a food processor before feeding the coconut meat into your juicer.

Fill food processor about half way full with small pieces of coconut meat and pulse a few times before turning on to grate the coconut meat.

This extra step puts less stress on your juicer and makes juicing a coconut more efficient.  Keep in mind that a regular sized coconut will produce about 6 to 8 ounces of coconut cream.

It's best to put the raw coconut cream into smaller-sized glass jars to minimize oxygen exposure and screw the lid on tight before putting into the refrigerator.

Raw coconut cream keeps for weeks in your refrigerator by adding 1/2 tsp. of lime juice (extends shelf life) for every 8 ounces of coconut cream. 

Otherwise, raw coconut cream will ferment in just a few days.  Just be aware that lime juice may kill important bacteria.

Remember, only use mature coconuts as they contain the most fat to get the most health benefits from raw coconut cream.

Health benefits: raw coconut cream is a potent cleanser!

Did you know that coconut oil just like raw coconut cream is made from mature coconut meat?  However, raw coconut cream will have more health benefits than coconut oil.

Mature coconut meat comes with healthy saturated fats, amino acids, some vitamins, important minerals, enzymes, and lots of lauric acid.

Raw coconut cream and coconut oil both have high amounts of medium-chained fatty acids called lauric acid. 

Lauric acid is acclaimed for its extraordinary properties and acts as a natural shield against harmful pathogens.

Mother's milk is another good source of lauric acid.  As you probably already know - nursing gives growing babies important health benefits.

Lauric acid will enhance the ability of their pancreas to secrete insulin and  has been associated with beneficial metabolic effects.

Unlike coconut oil, which is only fat soluble - raw coconut cream is both fat and water soluble. 

Aajonus Vonderplanitz, considered raw coconut cream to be a very potent cleanser.  He has said that raw coconut cream has about 7 to 8% coconut oil and the rest is water soluble fat.

Raw coconut cream may give you the most powerful solvent for breaking up hardening in the body created from stored plague due to cooked fats, cooked cholesterol, and medications.

In his book, "We Want To Live", Aajonus Vonderplanitz stated that frequently eating fresh raw coconut cream with cucumber dissolves the hardening of nerves that causes Alzheimer's, effecting reversal in its early stages.

And that eating fresh raw coconut cream with banana gradually dissolves hardened mineral build-up in arteries.

Here''s some food for thought, he also said that meat fat and coconut cream have all of the healing properties of all other fats and oils.

I highly recommend that you learn how to make coconut cream to receive the health benefits found in mature coconut meat.

Culinary uses for your raw coconut cream.

My favorite culinary use for raw coconut cream is creating delicious and refreshing raw food desserts. 

You can learn how to make tasty pies using raw coconut cream and many different types of fresh fruit.

It's probably best to use equal amounts of raw dairy fats like raw cream or raw butter to help balance out the potency of raw coconut cream.

Then you can make other types of luscious desserts like a passion fruit or berry cheesecake with your raw coconut cream - yum!

Another tasty and great dessert idea is creating exotic ice cream flavors with the raw coconut cream.  How about a tropical banana split?

Raw coconut cream can also be used in your fruit smoothies to give them a healthy fat and add a tropical flavor.

You can create different coconut cream sauces for your favorite seafood.

Raw coconut cream can also be used to create delicious sauces for acidic foods like raw seafood when your in the mood for a healthy protein meal.

I bet you can come up with many different raw coconut cream sauces to use with your favorite seafood.

Raw coconut cream is the perfect healthy fat to add to fish or shrimp ceviche to create a delicious meal.

For an Asian flavor, add ingredients like lemongrass, ginger, and hot chili peppers to flavor your raw coconut cream.

For a more tropical flavor, add a little fresh pineapple juice or passion fruit juice to your raw coconut cream.

Keep in mind, coconut cream will harden like butter in the refrigerator and you will probably need to bring it to room temperature before using in your recipes.

You can also just spoon feed this nutrient dense food right into your mouth to get the health benefits of this amazing fat, but it won't be as much fun.

Just keep in mind that 4 Tbsp. a day may be the limit for most people or you could experience too much detoxification.

I recommend that you learn how to make coconut cream because you won't find this type of coconut cream in any grocery stores. 

Resources

1. How to make coconut ream (by Aajonus) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Py3x625-I

2. We Want To Live by Aajonus Vonderplanitz, Published by Carnelian Bay Castle Press