Learn more about amazing ingredient

What makes a good food? To make a good food we need 2 mostly important elements, which are good recipes and good ingredients. A good ingredients is a very important part because it will have great impact on the food texture and taste.

One of the most commonly know Malaysian food is nasi lemak and Malaysian curry. Both of these food have great texture and taste. But what gave them that incredible texture and taste. For example nasi lemak, basically it is a rice but it has great and fabulous flavors, what makes it so tasty.

The answer is coconut milk. Coconut milk maybe one of the most common ingredients found in Malaysian food. Coconut milk is one of the ingredient to create a curry and nasi lemak. Basically, coconut milk is the liquid that come from the grated meat of a coconut. One simple way to make your own coconut milk is to grate the coconut meat and ad few cup pf water and put them all inside a food processor and let it blend until it thickens. With this fantastic ingredients, food will become more creamy in texture and gain rich flavours. The texture of the food will become more thick and freamy with coconut milk.

Coconut used to make coconut milk

Coconut milk

Ayam brand coconut milk. Available in Malaysia and Indonesia

However, despite the fact that this ingredients is very tasty and useful, it has a bad effect to the body. Because of high level of saturated fat inside coconut milk, consuming too much coconut milk will cause a high cholesterol level in human body. It is not healthy to consume to many coconut milk so beware.

But do not worry because there is always a substitute of this amazing ingredient. For some food, we can substitute coconut milk with other ingredients. One ingredient that I know and is useable as a substitute for a coconut milk is milk. Yes, milk. This is a personal experience as my mother uses milk instead of a coconut milk to avoid the fat in coconut milk. It may look a little bit weird but it is still quite tasty using milk as a substitute of coconut milk. Even though milk is a great substitute, coconut milk is still one unique and fabulous ingredient to use.