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Dan Marek - Ask Me Anything (Office Hours)
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Tuesday, April 09, 2024 at 2:00 pm Pacific, 2:00 pm Eastern
Join Chef Dan Marek in his virtual office as he welcomes all of your questions. This event was created for you and we encourage you to Ask Anything – from cooking techniques to cours… Read More.
Question:
What is coconut butter and can I make it at home?
— Janet Batchelder
Answer:
So coconut butter is actually kind of like a coconut oil, um, and you can make it at home. I've done a couple different versions of it. I've actually done a coconut butter where it's actually like, I'll add nutritionally used and use it like, uh, a butter as well. But it's basically, um, you know, kind of using a food processor and chopping up the, um, the coconut meat, basically kind of down as far down as you possibly can. Um, and it turns into almost like a, it's like kind of a, a pasty liquid basically, you know, so it's, uh, you can add other things to it, like a salts, you can add vine, uh, vanilla to it, which is, you know, uh, kind of a normal thing as well. You can also add a sweetener to it as well too if you want. But basically putting it into a food processor, uh, shredded coconut that is, um, and blending it up until it turns, it churns basically into a butter. Um, now you can buy that in a jar. There are a lot of different companies that will sell, uh, coconut butter as well too. But that's basically the process is taking the, um, the, you know, little bits of coconut and processing it down into butter and churning it almost.