If you want to prepare coconut milk at home then :-
- Mix about 1 small bowl of grated coconut with some water.
- Grind the above mixture in a mixer grinder (just enough to let water mix with coconut).
- Place a strainer (arippa) over a bowl. Taking a little coconut and water mixture at a time, squeeze it to extract as much liquid as possible into the bowl. This we call it as first milk.
- Again repeat steps 2 and 3 after adding some more water to the squeezed coconut from step 3. This we call it as second milk.
- You need one teaspoon of curd and boiled milk(any quantity).
- Let the boiled milk cool down till it is lukewarm.
- Add curd and mix it well.
- Leave this undisturbed for about 10-12 hours.
- The amount of time required to set the curd also depends upon the temperature. Curd tends to set faster when temperature is high. So keep checking and refrigerate once the curd is set.
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