What is a coconut bar?

Coconut bar is a culinary treatment for generations throughout Asia and the Polynesian islands. The traditional recipe is embodied by the dessert dim sum , which mixes coconut milk, sugar and possibly grated coconut. To complete the candy, an adjustment agent is used to provide either a creamy, block texture if the corn starch and flour are used, or the one that is more like anll-O® if agar and agar and gelatin are preferred. Over time and many cultural interpretations, the coconut bar has taken over many other ingredients, from chocolate, eggs and almonds to butter, salt and even fresh grated corn.

The usual coconut bar begins to harmonize coconut milk. For a real densely packed stick, corn starch and rice or wheat flour are mixed with milk and maybe some water to form a dough that poured into a bakery pan for cooling and cutting into squares. Some flattened the dough in the patties and write them in a pan or bake them in the oven -after about 20 minutes at 400 ° F (about 200 ° C). Other iterations include those adding agar agar and gelatin instead of flour, with the mixture poured into a mold to solidify like a spring jel-o®.

This dessert is several names. In Hawaii, the locals call this treatment haupia -s-like cream with mere coconut milk, water, sugar and corn starch, which is mixed and set to cool. For those in the Philippines, it is a gelatin called Maja Blanca , with the addition of grated corn cores and gelatin agar agar. The Thai version, known as the BA bin can be used by two types of rice flour, sugar, salt, water, coconut milk and grated coconut.

Many in the West were introduced to the classic coconut bar in the Asian buffet or Polynesian Luau. Others were slowly assimilated with more complex versions of the recipe. It could be a recipe for Almond Joy® candy, with coconutLiking with almond triggering, which is immersed in milk chocolate. It could also be chewing coconut rod loaded not only with standard coconut and coconut milk, but also ingredients such as brown sugar, salt, vanilla, chocolate chips, nuts, flour and eggs.

coconut can be prepared for great culinary effect, in various salty and sweet dishes. A close cousin of the coconut bar is a coconut out ganache , which is widely considered a gourmet pleasure. This is made by determining the chocolate layer, then by boiling cream, sugar and coconut milk for the upper layer. The whole nugget is then brushed by coconut rum and dusted in roasted coconut. Occasionally, the chef can complete these delicacies by fast burning from hand -marketing.