Ingredients: chicken 1 piece, coconut meat 250g, yellow wine 1 teaspoon and a half, salt 1 teaspoon, a little pepper, 2 slices of ginger and 2 strips of onion.

Practice: (1) Cut the chicken into pieces and cut the coconut into pieces. (2) Cook the chicken in a frying pan, add yellow wine and onion and stir fry. (3) Put the processed chicken into a porcelain container, add coconut meat and appropriate amount of cold water, simmer for about three hours, and season with salt and pepper.

Boiled glutinous rice with coconut juice

Ingredients: coconut 1, glutinous rice 1 cup, jujube, lily, wolfberry, a little rock sugar.

Practice: (1) Remove the coconut top cover and pour out the coconut water for later use. (2) Put glutinous rice, jujube, lily, medlar and crystal sugar into the shell, pour coconut water and cover it. (3) Add water to the pot, press the coconut with a small dish, and heat it 1 hour.

Efficacy: clearing away heat and strengthening the body.

Health care function of coconut

Supplementary nutrition: Coconut contains nutrients such as sugar, fat, protein, vitamins and microsatellite elements, which can supplement human nutrition and improve the body's disease resistance.

Diuretic swelling: Coconut juice is rich in minerals such as potassium and magnesium, which can prevent dehydration and achieve the effect of diuresis and swelling.

Insecticidal and malnutrition relieving: Coconut meat and coconut juice can kill intestinal parasites and have no toxic and side effects, so they are ideal foods for insecticidal and malnutrition relieving.

How to choose coconuts?

There are two kinds of coconuts: green coconuts and yellow coconuts (also known as golden coconuts). Green coconut is more suitable for drinking water, and yellow coconut is more suitable for eating coconut meat and stewed coconut rice. If you just want fresh coconut water, you must choose a coconut with a complete blue skin when choosing a coconut. Besides, you should shake the coconut in your ear. You can't hear the sound of water when you shake it, but coconut with crisp sound is the best.

How to eat the most nutritious food

Coconut juice is more nutritious.

Suitable for the crowd: generally everyone can eat.

Not suitable for people: Coconut is warm and will be hot and dry after eating, so it is not suitable for people with excessive heat in the body, otherwise there will be symptoms of "getting angry".

Suitable collocation: Coconut and chicken eaten together can play a role in invigorating qi and blood.

Not suitable for people: Coconut should not be eaten with seafood, otherwise it will accelerate the formation of uric acid in the body.

Pre-meal suggestion

Coconut is warm and can be eaten with some cool foods, such as lily and tremella.

How to store the freshest?

Coconuts can generally be stored in dry and ventilated places. If it is a cut coconut, it can be sealed with plastic wrap and stored in the refrigerator, but the time should not be too long, because the cut coconut is easy to deteriorate.