roasted coconuts

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Last month there was a post about young coconuts being roasted-- I found the

following info at www.thaifoodandtravel.com-- perhaps the roasted coconuts are

not the same as young ones? ~Sheri

 

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" Young coconut (maprao awn). Young coconut is found in most of the markets we

went to and is also fairly widely available from street vendors. Easily

recognizable as a cylinder topped by a point (I'm sure there's a mathematical

name for this -- cone?). Cost is usually 10 baht, occasionally 15, once as high

as 20. Even some restaurants carry them, usually still very reasonable. Make

sure the vendor can chop it open and provide a straw and spoon for you (we carry

our own spoons as vendors don't usually provide them). They are not always very

young: sometimes the flesh is fairly thick and firm but, hey, that means more

coconut oil. Two things to watch out for: in restaurants it is sometimes

sweetened and if you purchase a plastic bottle of young coconut from a vendor it

is almost certainly sweetened; If the top has already been cut off, it usually

means that the contents have been replaced with a coconut/agar jelly that is

sweetened. "

 

" Roasted coconut (maprao pao). Also sold in markets and by vendors. These are

usually smaller white coconuts with a black scorch mark from the fire somewhere

on them. The juice can be wonderfully sweet as cooking concentrates the natural

sugars, as well as loosens the flesh. The meat can easily be peeled off and

eaten without the need for a spoon. The cost is about the same as young coconut.

"

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