How To Make Coconut Oil At Home
Coconut oil is beneficial for your health as well as hair and skin. People also use coconut oil for cooking, because it is light and easy to digest. In this way, apart from eating, coconut oil can also be used externally. The good fats present in it are beneficial in many ways including boosting energy. You will find many types of oils in the market, but which one is pure? It is very difficult to identify it. You will find different oils being sold for hair, for eating and also for skin. You can use pure coconut oil made at home in many ways.
If the coconut oil available in the market is adulterated too much, it can not only harm your skin but also have a bad effect on your health. You cannot use such oil for hair also, because instead of providing nourishment to the hair, it can increase hair fall. So let us know how to make pure coconut oil at home.
How to make coconut oil
- You do not need many things to make coconut oil. All you need is 4 water coconuts and some water.
- First of all, break the coconut and keep its water aside and then remove the coconut cover and cut it into small pieces with a knife.
- Removing the hard cover of coconut is a task, so the simple way is to heat the whole coconut on the gas for some time.
- When you heat the coconut, the cover and the inner part loosen a little, due to which it can be easily removed.
- Put the cut coconut in the grinder and add little water to it and grind it well. Add just enough water in it so that it grinds properly and forms a thick paste.
- Now separate the milk from the coconut paste with the help of a strainer. If you want, you can use cotton cloth instead of strainer.
- The bowl or container in which you have kept coconut milk. Cover it and keep it for some time so that the water gets separated from the milk.
- Now pick up the container and freeze it for at least 4-5 hours. Due to this the water will settle down and a layer of milk will settle on top.
- After taking out the container from the fridge, take out the layer of milk in a pan with the help of a ladle and now it is the turn of the finishing step.
- Make coconut oil in the same way as desi ghee is extracted. Turn on the gas, keep the pan and cook it on low flame until oil comes out.
- After the oil is prepared, filter it and store it in an air tight glass jar. You can use it for food as well as for hair and skin.
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What to do with leftover coconut?
Coconut milk is filtered better through cloth, because by filtering it through cloth, it can be squeezed properly and less moisture is left in the remaining coconut, due to which it can be easily dried in the fan air and can be stored. You can also use this leftover coconut powder by grinding it with spices to make kheer, halwa, laddu, barfi and to make vegetable gravy thick.