Paleo Diet Ice Candy with Mangoes and Coconut Cream

[goodsamaritan]

It is mid-April and we are in the peak of a hot summer season. My wife and children decided to make paleo diet ice candies made from ripe raw mangoes and fresh raw coconut cream. Here is the super simple recipe and pictures:

Buy your very ripe mangoes, make sure they are naturally ripened, they should smell sweet.

Buy your coconut niyog and have it shredded.

At home slice open the mangoes

Press your shredded coconut meat and get the coconut milk / cream.

Put the combination in a food processor / blender. And blend.

Pour in standard plastic ice candy wrappers.

Put in freezer.

Enjoy later in the mid-afternoon heat.

Gallery of pics here: http://www.myhealthblog.org/2011/04/19/paleo-diet-ice-candy-with-mangoes-and-coconut-cream/

[Techydude]

Sounds good! Reminds me of my ol junk food cream and fruit ices loved em.

[Löwenherz]

Buy your coconut niyog and have it shredded.

Press your shredded coconut meat and get the coconut milk / cream.

Hi GS,

what is coconut niyog? Is it the mature, hard brown coconut with high oil content?

How do you usually make coconut milk in your country? Do you use a conventional blender and sieve?

Löwenherz

[goodsamaritan]

Hi GS,

what is coconut niyog? Is it the mature, hard brown coconut with high oil content?

How do you usually make coconut milk in your country? Do you use a conventional blender and sieve?

Löwenherz

Niyog is our word for coconut that can be made into cream, the hard brown one.

We make coconut milk by having a machine or a tool shred the coconut meat.
Once shredded, add some water to it and start squeezing by hand.
In the wet market, they usually have a car jack as a machine press.
And a sieve. No blendering to make coconut milk.

[Löwenherz]

Niyog is our word for coconut that can be made into cream, the hard brown one.

We make coconut milk by having a machine or a tool shred the coconut meat.
Once shredded, add some water to it and start squeezing by hand.
In the wet market, they usually have a car jack as a machine press.
And a sieve. No blendering to make coconut milk.

A car jack?? Wow, great idea...
I guess that squeezing by hand is very inefficient.

It's really impossible to get high quality mature coconuts in europe. 99% are spoiled. :-(
But I can get frozen coconut shreds in some Asian supermarkets, very expensive, but better than nothing.

I wonder if coconut fat can replace saturated animal fats completely. What do you think?

Löwenherz

[achillezzz]

I wonder if coconut fat can replace saturated animal fats completely. What do you think?

Löwenherz

Very good question I would like to know that too!!

[goodsamaritan]

Very good question I would like to know that too!!

I do not think coconut fat can replace animal fats.

Coconut fat is good to get rid of parasites.

Animal fats are just more satisfying and more inflammation reducing.

[Josh]

Some people on standard paleo seem to replace animal fat coconut, olive, avocado. In my experience it made me feel nauseous to eat them after a couple of days. Whereas animal fat I crave.