Check out a delicious recipe made of coconut.

Thai Chicken and Coconut Soup

Serves: 4

Time: 30 min

Ingredients:

• Unsweetened coconut milk One can (13.5-ounce)
• Green curry paste 2 tsp
• Lime zest Four (2-inch strips )
• Ginger( lightly crushed) 2 quarter-size
• Sugar 1/2 tsp
• Chicken stock 3 cups
• Boneless chicken 2 cut into 3/4 -inch pieces
• Asian fish sauce 3 tsp
• Cilantro leaves (chopped) 1/4 cup
• Basil leaves, chopped 6
• Fresh lime juice 1 tsp

Directions:

Mix the coconut milk, curry paste, lime zest, ginger and sugar in a big pan, and cook on moderate heat. Add the chicken stock, cover and cook on low heat for 8 minutes. Raise the heat and bring the soup to a boil. Add the chicken, fish sauce, three tablespoons of the cilantro leaves and the basil leaves. Mix and cook until the chicken is cooked through, about 4 minutes. Now add ginger and lime zest. Add the remaining one tablespoon of cilantro and stir in the lime juice. The soup is ready now serve hot and enjoy it.

The coconut is called as the tree of life because it has been providing us, human beings, food and drink, material for making home, fuels and for many other industrial uses. Its medicinal uses are many.

Coconuts play an exceptional role in the diets of mankind because they are the source of important physiologically functional components. These physiologically functional components are found in the fat part of the whole coconut, in the fat part of dry coconut, and also in the extracted coconut oil.

In a nutshell about coconut:

- Coconut is a simple dry nut known as a fibrous drupe.

- Coconut contains less fat than other dry nuts.

- In a coconut approximately 90% of the saturated fat found.

- Coconut meat also contains less sugar and more protein than popular fruits such as bananas, apples and oranges.

- It is relatively high in minerals such as iron, phosphorus and zinc

- Coconut water can be used as an intravenous fluid

- Coconut oil is processed and extracted as a fully organic product from fresh coconut flesh, and used in many ways including as a medicine and in cosmetics, or as a direct replacement for diesel fuel.
- Coconut is also commonly used as herbal remedy in Asia to treat bites from rats.

- Coir (the fiber from the husk of the coconut) is used in ropes, mats, brushes etc.

- The husk and shells can be used for fuel.