How to make Coconut Cream

Coconuts are a key ingredient in Samoan cooking. Every part of the coconut is used. You can eat the flesh raw or use it for cooking, you can drink the juice, the shell makes a handy cup or, together with the husks, you can fuel a cooking fire. The most widely used product from the coconut is coconut cream, so let me describe how the cream is traditionally made.  

You will need

1. Coconut/Popo
2. Knife
3. Scraper
4. Coconut husk
5. Bowl

Method

1. Gather all your equipment
2. Using the back of your knife strike the coconut in half. Rotate the coconut as you strike it. But remember to strike it in the middle.  Be careful.
3. Pour the coconut water into a bowl
4. Get your scraper and start scraping the coconut. As you scrape it rotate the coconut.
5. Get your husk (tauaga) and put your flesh in the husk. Get your leftover water and put it into the husk too. Close the husk and squeeze tightly. Now you have some yummy cream.
6. If you have leftover coconut you can feed it to the chicken or give it to the pigs. With the leftover coconut shell you can use it in the in the fire as wood.

Now you can make coconut cream for samoan language week.