Coconut goes into both sweet and savoury dishes, and coconut chira, thin sugar-glazed strips of coconut, is as pretty as it is tasty. It is sold at roadside food stalls, but it is easy to make at home with very few ingredients.
Ingredients: one coconut, half a cup of sugar, half a cup of water and a pinch of salt.
Break the coconut and take out the flesh. Scrape off the brown skin at the back with a knife or a boti. Then cut the flesh into very thin, long strips with a sharp knife or a peeler, so that they look like flattened rice (chira). Wash the strips four or five times in clean water.
Put half a cup of water and half a cup of sugar in a pan over a medium flame. When the sugar has fully melted and the syrup thickens a little, add a pinch of salt.
Add the washed coconut strips to the syrup and stir constantly on a medium flame so that every strip is coated. As the water slowly dries off, the strips turn dry and slightly crisp; then turn off the heat.
Spread the strips on a dry tray and let them cool. Serve once fully cool. It makes a good sweet for an afternoon snack or for guests.
Agricare24's recipe draws on information from Jago News.
Photo: Janet Hudson / Wikimedia Commons (CC BY 2.0)
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