Remember when we talked about how to make your own coconut milk, and I promised I would explain how to turn the leftover coconut pulp into flour?
Well, have no fear; I am a woman of my word. 🙂
You’ll be happy to know that the process is super, duper easy, too!
Ingredients:
- Coconut pulp from homemade coconut milk
Spread the pulp evenly on a cookie sheet.
Place the sheet in the oven for thirty to forty minutes. Â Be sure to check it regularly so that you do not bake your flour; remember, you are only trying to dry it. Â You could also use a dehydrator for this step, if you have one (lucky duck!).
When the pulp is dry, remove it from the oven and place it in a blender, food processor, or coffee grinder. Â Process until you have the consistency of a fine flour.
Voilà !
You now have coconut flour!!
I used the pulp from one batch of my homemade coconut milk, and it yielded about one cup of coconut flour. Â While this might not sound like much, keep in mind that just a tiny bit of coconut flour goes a looooooong way. Â For example, I only need half a tablespoon to make one of these giant babies.
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| You are only FIVE minutes away from this deliciousness! Â Seriously, that’s all it takes! |
Have you experimented with coconut flour before?? Â What’s your favorite recipe? Â Does its super-cool-expanding-capacity-when-heating make you feel like the kitchen is your laboratory, too??
No?
Just me? 😉
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Sounds brilliant! At some point I will have to try this!!
Yay! First comment.
So I did this and I don’t think my blender attachment is capable of turning this to a very fine powder. Just how fine of a consistency are we talking here?
Hi Mel! It doesn’t need to be super-fine. Mine usually turns out kind of “fluffy” and more like a medium-grain flour. I would go ahead and try the flour you’ve made and see how it works for you!
I’ve been making my own coconut milk (love it) and you’ve convinced me I can go one step further using the pulp for flour! I’ll try it asap! Thank you!
You are more than welcome! I can’t wait to hear how it goes for you; we were amazed at how simple it is to make! 🙂
Thanks for this tip! Now I can make some wheat flour-free sticky toffee puddings with this…!
Ooooo, that sounds awesome! Happy to be of help! 🙂
Hi Tanya could I use desiccated cocnut instead?
Hi, Shivani! You can certainly use the desiccated coconut to make coconut milk, and then use the pulp from the milk to make coconut flour. I don’t think it would work to simply use the desiccated coconut in place of coconut flour; the consistency isn’t quite the same. Hope that helps! 🙂
Agreed Tonya. Coconut flour is made from defatted coconut which is why the pulp works so great for it. Much of the fat is removed when you make the milk.
Hi,
Thanks for sharing.
I would like to ask, is there gonna be any humidity issues involved in processing coconut flakes into coconut flour?
The reason for my concern is that, i’m living in South east Asia with high humidity, and hence, i’m afraid that the outcome of the grated coconut/ coconut flakes would not be coconut flour.
Thank you.
You’re more than welcome! I don’t think you should have any issues with humidity. I’ve made it during the summer here in TX in humid 100 degree weather with success. 🙂 Let me know how it turns out for you!