Make Coconut Butter and Coconut Milk Yourself – That’s How it Works

How to make coconut yourself

All you need to make fresh coconut butter and delicious coconut milk is coconut flakes and a good blender with the most powerful motor possible. The knives should run flat on the ground.

1. Put about 300 grams of commercially available coconut flakes in the blender and, in the first step, prepare a fine flour from them on a medium level.
2. So that the flour can become a mush, continue to mix at a medium level until the coconut oil slowly escapes. Take breaks from time to time so that the mixer and coconut mass do not heat up too much.
3. During these breaks, use a spatula to push the mass towards the knife so that everything is covered.
   Mix until a creamy mass has formed from the escaping oil.
4. Then let the coconut butter rest for about ten minutes and then mix again at the highest level until it has almost liquefied.
5. If you fill the finished mush into airtight jars with screw caps, it will keep for several months without refrigeration. If you keep the mousse in the fridge, it will harden, but it will keep longer.

From coconut butter to coconut milk – that’s how it works

Most of the time there are leftovers of the coconut butter in the blender that you can’t get out completely. You can process this straight away into coconut milk.

1. Depending on how clean you scraped the blender, add 100 to 200ml of water to the blender.
2. If you now run the mixer at the highest level for 10 to 20 seconds, your first portion of homemade coconut milk is already ready.
3. You can make coconut milk from your coconut butter at any time. Depending on the mixing ratio, the fat content of the milk also changes.
4. Mix a tablespoon of coconut butter with 100 ml of water to get low-fat coconut milk that is suitable for drinks, soups, and body care products.
5. If you want a particularly high-fat content, for example for vegan whipped cream, mix 100 grams of puree with 1000 ml of water.