Treasure in a Coconut

I told L'abeille in msn long time ago that I wanted to cook this soup. But too bad, "someone" threw my coconut into the car and cracked it. So it was spoilt and I didn't know about it until we saw the coconut and saw some aliens in it. So the "someone" said.." see waste time only, go outside and buy and drink there la. Waste time and effort".

Seriously I have no idea why people wanna take the trouble to cook this soup. So troublesome with the coconut, the herbs, the double boiling.I cooked it merely just for fun! But then I realised there's another reason why people take all the trouble and effort after I tried the soup...

So we're in Old Town market yesterday and I went to buy another coconut again. This time I've asked the man to saw the coconut for me. This costs me Rm 2.50 . The workmanship for sawing the coconut was Rm1. (do yourself? try and see first. Rm 1, I'm willing to pay!) And I went to buy Rm1.50 of herbs for the soup. You gotto tell the person that you're making Coconut Herbal Soup (both the herbal and the coconut fella) so that they'll gather the right amount of herbs and the right size of coconut.

The ingredients.

If you're going to double boil it in a pot, stack it up like this..

Then I realized that I ran out of gas. Dang! Luckily there's a slow cooker.

Double boil it...remember to add salt. I cooked mine for about 4-5 hours.. and this is the outcome.

Pour it out..

Wah berasap!

here's the treasure in the coconut. It is super sweet and nice. Jayden keep on asking me for the chicken meat. Apparently the meat became super soft..bagus untuk orang yang takde gigi...

But then after you've consumed the soup, what about the coconut shell? Throw away? No....you take a knife, poke inside, crack the inner layer and twist your knife like this and the coconut flesh will come out just like this...

You removed the coconut flesh and you get a coconut shell with a cover. You can transform this into a coin box, plant pot (remember to make hole at the bottom), key box, whatever box la. I still don't know what I'm gonna do with mine..most probably it's gonna be Jayden's new toy.