Coconut Kitchen: Appetizers and Main Dishes
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From meat to shell, Coconut Kitchen brings you many ways to make appetizers and main dishes absolutely healthy and delicious! Each recipe has been personally selected, tested and retested by the author with you, the reader and home cook, in mind. This cookbook also features coconut-based recipes from the following well-known personalities in the culinary world: Amy Besa and Romy Dorotan, Norma Chikiamco, Pia Lim-Castillo, Elizabeth Ann Quirino, Ige Ramos, Beth Romualdez and Editha C. Singian.
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Coconut Kitchen - Maria Regina Tolentino Newport
coconut Kitchen
Appetizers and Main Dishes
coconut Kitchen
Appetizers and Main Dishes
Ma. Regina Tolentino Newport
Coconut Kitchen
Appetizers and Main Dishes
Copyright to this digital edition © 2017 by M. Regina Tolentino Newport and Anvil Publishing, Inc.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means without the written approval from the copyright owners.
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Photography by Paulo Antonio Valenzuela
Food styling by Tina Concepcion Diaz
Book design by Paulo Antonio Valenzuela (cover)
Ysa Garcia and Marielle Tayona (interior)
E-book formatting by Arvyn Cerézo
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Table of Contents
Introduction
About This Cookbook
All About Coconuts
The Tree of Life
Food Products Derived from the Coconut Tree
Health Benefits of the Coconut
How to Cook with Coconuts in Your Kitchen
Kitchen Basics and Techniques
Vegetables
Creamed Corn Soup with Coconut and Vegetables
Eggplant Coconut Parmigiana
Green Beans & Mushrooms Casserole
Kale & Sweet Corn au Gratin
Red Lentil Coconut Soup
Roasted Tomatoes with Pesto Topping
Spicy Pineapple Coconut Salad
Sweet Potato Coconut Casserole with Marshmallows
Vegetables in Sweet & Sour Sauce
Winged Beans in Coconut Milk (Sigarilyas sa Gata)
Zucchini Coconut Fritters
Coconut Couscous with Vegetables
No-Pasta Eggplant Lasagna
Smokey Asian Eggplant Salad
Bell Pepper Cups with Orzo and Vegetables
Bicol Express (by Beth Romualdez)
Guinataang Kurakding at Kadios(by Beth Romualdez)
Guinataang Saba na Binalot sa Kolis (by Pia Lim-Castillo)
Garden Salad with Coconut Vinaigrette
Coconut Coleslaw
Zucchini Lasagna
Seafood
Salmon Poached in Lemongrass Curry
Pink Salmon & Vegetables Cakes
Shrimp Basil Risotto
Crab and Shrimp Salad with Coconut Dressing
Coconut Shrimp Macaroons
Crunchy Shrimp and Vegetable Patties (Ukoy)
Coconut-Crusted Shrimp
Roasted Shrimp with Coconut Sauce
Beets & Shrimp on Toast with Coconut Sauce
Squid Stuffed with Spinach and Heart of Palm (Ubod)
Seafood Curry with Vegetables
Coconut Shrimp Summer Rolls
Tilapia in Red Curry Sauce
Fish Poached in Turmeric Sauce (by Pia Lim-Castillo)
Mussels in Coconut Milk & Lemongrass
Curried Vermicelli (Sotanghon) Soup
Pork & Beef
Egg-Stuffed Coconut Meat Loaf
Beef Coconut Adobo
Beef Coconut Kare-kare
Spicy Beef Stewed in Coconut Milk
Sweet & Sour Coconut Meatballs
Braised Pork Belly
Meat Lasagna with a Coconut Twist
Chicken and Duck
Buko Pancit (Young Coconut Pancit)
Baked Chicken Wings Coconut Adobo
Chicken Binakol
Chicken Coconut Lettuce Cups
Chicken Coconut Waldorf Salad
Quick and Easy Chicken Coconut Soup
Coconut-Crusted Chicken Thighs
Chicken, Spinach, and Kale Coconut Lasagna
Tinutungan na Manok (by Editha Singian)
Adobong Dilaw (by Elizabeth Ann Besa-Quirino)
Adobong Pula (by Ige Ramos)
Roasted Duck in Coconut and Red Curry Sauce (by Norma O. Chikiamco)
Coconut Salad Dressings
Basic Vinaigrette
Creamy Vinaigrette
Basil, Honey and Lime Dressing
Honey, Lemon and Mustard Dressing
Ranch Dressing
Creamy Avocado Dressing
Coconut Sauces and Dips
Coconut Cilantro Sauce
Coconut Anchovy Sauce
Coconut Dipping Sauce
Coconut Ginger Sauce
Measurements & Equivalencies
Glossary
Bibliography
introduction
Welcome to the wonderful world of coconuts! This book is dedicated to you, the home cook, and I hope that the information and recipes it contains will add a little magic to your life, your health and the long hours you spend in the kitchen.
Growing up in the Philippines, I took coconuts and cooking for granted. The humble coconut was always present in my mother’s kitchen, and learning to cook was a natural part of childhood. It was only much later in life that I came to appreciate the amazing qualities of the coconut and the real joy of cooking for family and friends.
This book represents an almost 15-year journey of discovery for me and the fulfillment of many dreams. When I took early retirement from the International Monetary Fund in Washington, DC, way back in 2003, I thought of setting up an import/export business focused on Philippine products. However, life is always full of surprises and fate had something else in mind for me.
On one of my trips to Manila, my dear friend, Rose, treated me to a cooking demo given by a popular local chef. This was something new for me, but my first thought was, "I don’t think I need a cooking class." After all, I came from a family where almost all the women were excellent cooks. Growing up, I used to do the food marketing and help my mom in the kitchen; I also learned how to dispatch and pluck a chicken. As an adult, I had cooked for my own children for many years. But Rose prevailed upon me and I went with her to the cooking demo. I’m glad I did because it turned out to be a totally unexpected and life-changing experience.
As I watched the cooking demo, the room packed with paying guests, I marveled at how the chef breezed through cooking five dishes. That was when I had my epiphany. I wanted to jump out of my seat and shout, "I can do that!" Within a month I was attending an orientation class for a 15-month Cordon Bleu program at a culinary academy in Florida.
And the rest is history. I had found my true calling in the culinary world at the tender age of 55!
I had a culinary baptism of fire shortly after graduating from the Cordon Bleu program. On a dare, my dear friend Sammy arranged for me to stage my own cooking demo in the state-of-the-art demo kitchen at the Culinary Center for Arts in Manila. I was on tenterhooks for the whole demo but I pulled it off—with a lot of support from family and friends. Back in Washington, D.C., my focus turned to food events, classes, workshops, cookbooks, and related research. I even attempted to set up my own catering and cooking demo business as I tried to find a niche in the rapidly evolving food world.
I became a member of the Culinary Historians of Washington, DC (CHoWDC), because I shared their objective of studying the history of cuisines and culinary customs from all parts of the world. In early 2011, I founded its sister organization in Manila, the Culinary Historians of the Philippines (CHOP). This is an informal nonprofit organization devoted to studying, preserving and promoting my country’s culinary history and heritage, and doing advocacy work. Its membership has grown rapidly since then, and the CHOP Board now boasts a tireless team of passionate champions of our cause.
CHOP kept me happy and busy and opened many doors in Manila—but, most importantly, helped me to meet and gain many new friends in the exciting food world of Manila. However, I was still looking for a focus for my culinary pursuits—something that would connect the many strands that had so attracted me to this fascinating milieu. That connection
came out of the blue, once gain in Manila. As they say, it is more fun in the Philippines!
In 2012, I was browsing through cookbooks at the National Book Store in Metro Manila. I chanced upon a misplaced copy of a book by Dr. Conrado S. Dayrit called The Truth about Coconut Oil: The Drugstore in a Bottle, published by Anvil Publishing, Inc. That sub-title caught my eye. I read the first chapter there and then, and bought the book. Oh, boy, what a revelation it was about the coconut and its seemingly endless magic and health benefits. What impressed me most was that every claim made by Dr. Dayrit was backed by science and years of laboratory tests and research.
It made me realize that I had been cooking with coconut products for years without thinking about their inherent health benefits. After undertaking further research, I decided that I wanted to focus my culinary pursuits on coconuts. And what better way to do that than write a cookbook that would, hopefully, introduce the home cook to the wonders of the coconut, not only in the kitchen but in the home as a whole.
I undertook an informal (and totally unscientific!) survey last year among family and friends to find out if they shared my knowledge of, and belief in, the health benefits that were now widely reported for virgin coconut oil (VCO). A vast majority of them used coconut milk in their cooking; over half who cooked used VCO, and many more used it on their hair and skin; nearly all believed in the health benefits of coconuts. These informal results and my own research of the relevant literature made me confident that the tide had turned for my humble
coconut. It was now a rock star!
There is a separate section in this book on the many health benefits of coconuts under the heading All About Coconuts.
I hope you will read it and, like me, be dazzled by their many qualities—and begin to share my passion for all things coconut. In my experience, almost any dish which contains some element of the coconut will have that subtle but unmistakable flavor which can enhance, transform, and take it to another taste level. Coconuts can work magic in the kitchen.
I use VCO for most of my cooking and for my hair and skin with visible effects. I find that taking one or two tablespoons of VCO a day helps to increase my energy and boost my immunity to common colds and infections. For me, Dr. Dayrit has truly delivered big time on his promise of a drugstore in a bottle.
I didn’t know it at the time, but picking up Dr. Dayrit’s book proved to be fortuitous because it brought on a series of happy events, connections, and friendships that would eventually lead to where I am now—publishing my own cookbook and fulfilling a dream that seemed impossible. Once again, welcome to the world of coconuts. I hope my book will find a home in your kitchen and that the humble coconut will find a