How to Make Coconut Milk - Hot Thai Kitchen!

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These days, it's easy to buy coconut milk pre-packaged from the store, but when I was young, every drop of it was a labour of love. Join me as I show you how to make coconut milk fresh from the fruit using "the rabbit," the way I used to always do it growing up!
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Pailin “Pai” Chongchitnant is the author of the Hot Thai Kitchen cookbook, co-host of a Canadian TV series One World Kitchen on Gusto TV, and creator and host of the RU-vid channel Pailin's Kitchen.
Pai was born and raised in southern Thailand where she spent much of her "playtime" in the kitchen. She traveled to Canada to study Nutritional Sciences at the University of British Columbia, and was later trained as a chef at Le Cordon Bleu culinary school in San Francisco.
After working in both Western and Thai professional kitchens, she decided that her passion really lies in educating and empowering others to cook at home via RU-vid videos, her cookbook, and cooking classes. She currently lives in Vancouver, and goes to Thailand every year to visit her family. Visit her at hot-thai-kitche...
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@PailinsKitchen 5 лет назад

HELLO LOVELY VIEWERS! Important Note: If you have questions about this video, you can post it here for the community to answer. But if you want to ask me, please get in touch via Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or my website (all links are in the description above). If you leave questions in the comments I may not see them due to the large volume of comments I receive across the hundreds of videos on this channel. Thank you for watching!

@kristinefaithlumaban1320 3 года назад

You grate coconut the same way gere in the Philippines In Thai they call it THE RABBIT In the Philippines we call it IGAG

@jsonthixay 8 лет назад

when my mom came to Seattle from Laos, she brought the "rabbit" with her. I remember as a child, I used to sit there and grate the coconut for coconut milk or use the shavings for desserts. I swear this video brought back my childhood memories!

@Taweepthep 6 лет назад

Thai people call it rabbit because in the past, they carved it as a wooden rabbit. Its teeth are scraped iron. Its full name is "Kratai Kood Maprow" which means "Coconut scraping rabbit" But nowadays, they make its shape simpler like the one Khun Pailin use , the wooden rabbit is rare and valuable for collectors , but you might find one in Thai rural house

@pidunate 8 лет назад

it's beautiful to watch how you share the joy of your culture and Thai traditions. i hope you always share more of this joy in all your videos.

@LemLTay 8 лет назад

Sweet! In Malaysia, we sometimes use a spiked grater called a "parut" to grate the pieces of flesh. When I was young I was asked to help, and it kinda scared me as the spikes of the grater are very sharp, so I was told to stop when the pieces got too small. Nowadays, any provision (sundry) shop will grate the coconut for you for free - it comes as part of the service, so that's done away with one of the tedious jobs! The extracting of the milk is done through a cloth "windsock" like contraption - imagine a sturdy cloth cone, about 8" long and 4-5" at the opening. The opening has a wire hoop which helps gettting the grated flesh inside the "sock". Then you twist the "sock" up and squeeze away and out comes the coconut cream / milk. The squeezed out residue is not wasted in the villages - it gets fed to the livestock!!

@AsianPrideWoX1212 8 лет назад

i remember sitting down with my grandma spending hours grating coconuts for various uses. This really does bring back child hood memories

@stardustmotion 2 года назад

having first tried handmade coconut milk (made with store-bought grated coconut) and in second a brand of milk in a 1L carton box, i can tell handmade is at least equally (if not more, if you got the tools for it) concentrated than canned/carton box milk just a note : freshly made coconut milk has to be used quickly (1-2 days), it expires real fast (and so does the store bought one when opened)

@ericokamura3150 8 лет назад

Pai, your cooking videos inspire us in the kitchen but your Thailand videos have been bringing back memories of childhood which is very inspiring! I remember having to climb the coconut tree and pick coconuts as a boy, then husking them. I used to pound a nail into 2 of the 3 holes on top of the coconut and stick a straw in it to drink the water. Then depending on what it was going to be used for, I had to crack it open. There were tons of uses for coconut shells here in Hawaii, the coconut shell bra which is used in hula dancing that most people know is only 1 way to use it. I don't remember how the female's used to dig out the meat from the shell but when I wanted to eat some, I would just shatter the shell into flat pieces and eat the meat right off of the shell fragments... Yummy! I do remember that "rabbit" though, don't remember ever using it, seems like an eternity ago but your video just bring back a lot of fond memories... Thank you very much! :)

@KeySquaredYeah 8 лет назад

I used to grate coconut this way and felt like a champ when I reached the shell!

@DNOJ 7 лет назад

where I'm from... we crack the coconut ( lots of pieces take off the hard shell.... cut up the insides put it in a blender with a bit of Water and boom MILK

@chethanawickramasinghe6189 8 лет назад

Wow..! We do this everyday in Sri Lanka and it does not take that long... Fresh coconut milk tastes really good on food !

@benedictlim3344 8 лет назад

bring back old memories, one of my neighbor used to own a groceries store , they have a machine to grate the coconut.

@CourageousKitchen 8 лет назад

Don't know how I missed this video, but this is awesome and so important in Thai culture!

@mooncake5016 7 лет назад

The name "rabbit" to that tool to extract coconut meat makes sense. It's like 2 rabbit front teeth sticking out. Funny and interesting. Thanks for sharing!!

@yusufbucheeri2625 8 лет назад

You're full of positive energy I love that! Definitely a subscriber now 😊

@malangpou 4 года назад

I really happy to watch this VDO. As I'm Thai, when I was a kid, I saw my granny make the Gati by this old school way and it was so fun for me to help her. This VDO bring back my childhood and I miss my granny :)

@LakshmiCanteen 8 лет назад

We just grind the grated coconut with little bit of water and then squeeze it over a strainer to extract the milk. This way you can extract more milk I guess. This is how I grew up with. Good to know about your method :)

@mrsvaibhavivaidya 8 лет назад

This is how we do in India... Love the video

@RareCandeh 6 лет назад

My grandma used to do that when I was younger! I loved grating coconuts! We still have our grating chair. It's in the garage collecting dust 😢

@juneseongmin 8 лет назад

my grandma has the machine kind to grate the coconut meat from the shell ^_^ and we can get that pure thick coconut milk no water added at the wet market easily here and it sell by weight. it's heaven to use it to cook any coconut base dish.

@earlystrings1 8 лет назад

this is priceless. You look so happy :)

@bjarnesmith640 4 года назад

That was a beautiful coconut, looks so white and pure inside when you cracked it open. I want to try making coconut milk one day.

@rauldelcastillo4035 6 лет назад

What the...!?! 😁is there anything you don't do!?! Wow you're amazing! They have "rabbits" here in the Phils too! Thanks Pai! Cheers!

@gtlkthfc6741 8 лет назад

Wow. Thank you for sharing this I learn so much about Thai culture every time I visit your channel.

@julialupercio1124 8 лет назад

wow I will try to make some coconut milk thank you so much for sharing

@DStrayCat69 8 лет назад

Awesome! I use Coconut milk everyday... I make and drink Pena Coladas all of the time (with or without alcohol). I go through probably 20 cans per month. I also use Coconut Oil in nearly everything... Even my Toothpaste. I also do something called Oil Pulling, as part of my Dental Hygiene. Coconuts are a Superfood, with hundreds of health benefits. Even the husk has incredible properties... I use Coconut Char, in my Activated Carbon, Water Filters and Coconut husk in my Hydroponic gardening... It's better than peat moss :-) Coconuts are AWESOME!!! :-) Thanks for sharing this.

@haratisharas2698 6 лет назад

I am contacting you,becouse you are doing oil pulling.Tell me please if that process can stop gum reducing???I am doing oil pulling for more than a year now and no result ,my paradentosis is still in progress.Do you know anything about it?Please let me know

@iluckicharm 8 лет назад

thank you for showing this! I love watching all your videos :)

@kbhat1958 8 лет назад

This is the way we scrape in India, the sam gadget. It reminded me of India, while i was growing up. Left over you can add Palm Sugar scraped and add green cardamom powder filling for a desert in a rice dough flatten and steam like dumpling.

@Digityz 6 лет назад

This brings back memories. I used to grate the coconut for my Lola and great grand Lola and Lolo, astride not side saddle lol.

@AFFIRMATIONCB 8 лет назад

Reminds me of my childhood. :)

@amanda87ism 5 лет назад

I love the way you sit on the rabbit very femininely ❤️ yes, that's how real lady sit.

@davidmoza8499 8 лет назад

When I was 5 or 6 (I'm 20 now) my mom used to bring a whole bunch of coconut and asked me to help her with the coconut milk. We do it kinda differently here in Indonesia. Sometimes, they would shave and cut all those brown bits, and left with all the white juicy coconut. And then they would shave it in a machine, or what my mom used to do is to shave it by herself using grater. Oh, good old times. :) I feel like really really old now.

@gdastray 8 лет назад

We call it 'horse' hahaha. But I don't know what other Malaysian call it. Oh Pai I haven't been doing these starting from 'de-husking' for ages. I can't stop smiling while watching.

@xvzw 8 лет назад

koob khun krub for showing us how coconut milk is made in Thailand

@trangcampbell5195 8 лет назад

You're lucky to have that tool to shred the coconut. As a kid, I only had a hand tool and it was very laborious.

@imaphantomfan 8 лет назад

We do that in Bahia all the time.

@nhuphuong060688 8 лет назад

We still do this even now in Vietnam. But we buy the already shredded coconut from the market. They have a machine to shred coconut so it is really fast. Not many people here know about the pre-packaged coconut milk here. I wouldn't have known it if I had not gone to Europe to study though.

@laichan8679 4 года назад

Thai's desserts are so amazing !!!

@williamtan4470 8 лет назад

I have always enjoyed your posts. Very educational. Your explanations made this so interesting and helps me understand the logic behind it all. I always wanted to join a Thai cooking class in my many visits but your videos are so much so helpful. Thank you.

@JinxedKaetzchen 8 лет назад

This is awesome, always fun to see how things are made old school like you said :)

@malfirst 8 лет назад

wow, I use the same thing called rabbit! even though I have table mounted scraper I love to sit on this and scrape, Feel lot comfortable! But scraper is much more popular for some reason.

@lidianigusnita9538 3 года назад

I'm in Indonesia and I am still using that stuff to make coconut milk😀

@mavispersaud5122 8 лет назад

It's all traditional.its fun it's nutritional Can put into different dishes.

@youwerentthere4835 5 лет назад

I don't even like coconut but you are such a joy and this is so interesting! I LOVE Thai food but so many recipes call for it and I'm wondering if you have any suggestions/experience using anything else in its place?

@fudgestripes 8 лет назад

Great video! We have one of those "rabbits" at home! No one uses it anymore, because...it is a lot of work. Haha.

@user-vb9fr3vh9o 4 года назад

Your video was so fun to watch! I hope I can try this recipe tomorrow. Greetings from Turkey. 😍

@katskusinatwenty9044 6 лет назад

We still do that at home (the Philippines) and nobody in the province buys the canned/bottled coconut milk. In the local market, pick an unopened coconut, the vendor will crack it, split it in half and use a motorized grater all in 5 minutes or less (you then squeeze it at home asap).

@CherryJ2911 4 года назад

I love your channel !

@Hoshino.K 8 лет назад

That reminds me a lot of my grandma. I help her grade coconut with the rabbit a lot growing up hahahaha. She never ever permit me to help her squeeze out the coconut milk. She said I don't have enough strength and I guess she's right (even now, when I am 22 already hahaha)

@A1qwerty55 2 года назад

I still do it. Straight from the yard.

@sunthorn 6 лет назад

My grandmother used too make her own coconut milk back in Thailand

@DailyBread2007 8 лет назад

Awesome! Loving your videos from Thailand.

@shas400 4 года назад

Love the video

@RazaliZakaria890 8 лет назад

to get straight cut, or divided beautifully, u must hit ur cleaver on the line. the line on shell. try it and its guaranteed. its my mom's trick. good luck

@recklesslove2880 2 года назад

I want a chance to taste fresh coconut milk.

@vikashthapa3023 4 года назад

The way u laugh mam,I really loved it

@chaiT07 8 лет назад

they have this other contraption that uses a spicky spigot ball type thing that you can just hold up the coconut to then it grates it for you.

@LemLTay 8 лет назад

+Ntxhais Vaj Yup - I describe it as a citrus juicer with spikes that went on steroids!

@gore5011 8 лет назад

I love making my own fresh coconut milk, I became addicted after living in Bangkok and my neighbour made it every morning, but coconuts here are so small and so expensive relative to the yield :(

@MrKingsley16 6 лет назад

You are so charming, I just love watching, and learning, from your videos.

@piwatliao8825 4 года назад

Thai call it rabbit because in the old days they carved the chair to be a rabbit just to make it more artistic , sometime carved it to be bird , elephant or else but mostly was rabbit ,you still may find the real rabbit one in Thai old house in rural

@eateastIndian 8 лет назад

o what fun..quite an interesting process.

@rayyanali4471 4 года назад

We still make coconut milk this way but with a power grater specifically meant for grating coconut.

@Francescadbg 7 лет назад

I used to "help" grate coconut when I was young in the Philippines. We used that chair too but I'm not sure what we called it.

@mattysong 8 лет назад

my mom has one, and I've been looking for one ever since. storage is a bit difficult though.. haha

@elleh3495 4 года назад

Coconut: "Take me to the hospital, my water broke."

@catherinegaravito9095 6 лет назад

I'm Hawaiian and we always cut the meat out. I wonder if you cut the meat out and toss it in the food processor with a tiny bit of water and using a milk bag or cheese cloth to squeeze and strain it if that would be a quicker, but still fresh coconut milk?

@bjarnesmith640 4 года назад

I watched another video, and the way you described it was how that person made it.

@dogmom007 8 лет назад

I am from Burma and we use the same method there as well. But I was not strong like you to shave it. I always had to ask my brothers for help.

@mark91345 4 года назад

Wow, that is a lot of work for a little amount of coconut milk. How many coconuts would you have to grate to make, let's say, tom kha gai?

@AdamHotThaiKitchen 8 лет назад

White fluffiness!! :) Awesome video as always.

@supercoolstuff4626 3 года назад

i do this all the time. same method in india....

@joyjoyoo 8 лет назад

New found respect for coconut milk, lol

@albertofaustino2908 7 лет назад

please do a vid on how to cook sweetened cassava or tapioca...i used to buy it from street vendors in Bangkok....we dont have the same thing here in Manila....tnx so much....

@Nkaujhmoolis 4 года назад

Do you have a video on coconut drink? One that you buy on the street in Thailand. They have them in big display glass jug. Love love those but can’t never find any recipes on it😔

@Mamboro17 8 лет назад

"I was used to make coconut milk!" Haha! didn't we all have chores like that! *ahum* peeling garlic...for example

@melancholic6619 2 года назад

I think water of mature coconut does not taste good, than young coconut we call butong in philippines. Usually mature coconut water were discarded. Extracted milk is called gata, which is closely similar to yours as gati. 😊

@aewe7120 8 лет назад

It is very nice to see you in jeans. I also like your garden. Thanks for sharing.

@erichananel2000 2 года назад

Any chance to have a recipe how to make coconut cream (to use in curries) from dry coconut flakes?

@indiomechudo1 7 лет назад

THANK YOU FOR SHARING

@dayzyrules1 6 лет назад

i love this! thankyou!!

@mmmssbb23 4 года назад

We call it as "chirava" in malayalam

@everydayrants663 8 лет назад

great video. we do this in miami also. BTW looking good pai

@discusme3279 4 года назад

interesting

@RovingPunster 7 лет назад

FILTERING THE COCONUT WATER: I keep a box of 5000 Bunn paper coffee filters in my cupboard (which cost me like $15), and use them for making tea, filtering cooking oil, etc. Anyway, they work great for filtering coconut water ... just slip one into a bunn filter basket, rest the basket atop a bowl or container, and let the coconut water drain through it. Sweeten as desired with stevia or simple syrup.

@elidahernandez3675 8 лет назад

Nice video, I really like it!

@2NE1972000 8 лет назад

Can the flesh used for macaroons? do i have to take out excess water from it?

@dahliadelamerced8613 7 лет назад

New follower here🙋🏼

@purplelavender3249 8 лет назад

Wonderful!! Could you use a juicer?

@kymyeo3157 3 года назад

Hi how long can the milk be kept in the fridge? Tks

@adamthehtkminion6750 3 года назад

About two weeks when opened? Cheers! Adam

@anandmohan23 8 лет назад

Hi Pai, love your recipes. Could you use the leftover coconut for some dish ?

@dahliadelamerced8613 7 лет назад

New follower here 🙋🏼 we call it 'horse' in my country... Lol

@rowdymrlotso 8 лет назад

so what do you do with the left over coconut flesh? can it be eaten? or does it become those dried coconut that people use in desserts?

@cherrie1415 8 лет назад

Oh my god! We use a VERY similar tool in India! There's the stool, but the blade is the same. It has been passed down 4 generations. It's called boti and this coconut one is called Sarasi! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boti