What is Coconut Powder?

[Cory Ander]

Coconut Powder
Other names: coconut milk powder

A powder made from desiccated (dried) coconut.http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/Dictionary/C/Coconut-flour-6716.aspx[/url]

I can tell you that coconut milk powder is not that

[Malc.]

Domi, Coconut Milk Powder is made from evaporated coconut milk not ground coconut meat.

Definition of 'powder' varies only as much as languages get distorted through translation. Flour is a powder but is ground from a solid, coconut milk is not a solid.

[Domi]

Don't shoot the messenger guys! lol

Only posted what I'd found on another site, I didn't say it was gospel

[Malc.]

Domi,

I understand, really I do, but this is the problem. With so much misinformation on the internet, we need to be accurate in our descriptions. Afterall, it is us that will get the recipe wrong if we don't.

[Razor]

Guy's

You're right about mis-information gathered from off the net, for example, there is this forum called cr0.online that is trying to tell ME how to make a bleedin curr............ooops

s**t, posted this on the wrong forum :

[Domi]

Domi, Coconut Milk Powder is made from evaporated coconut milk not ground coconut meat.

Definition of 'powder' varies only as much as languages get distorted through translation. Flour is a powder but is ground from a solid, coconut milk is not a solid.

It was the definitions of coconut powder and coconut flour that I posted it for in particular since it was being discussed again in another thread...since this is the thread discussing coconut powder I assumed it to be the right place? TBH I hadn't paid attention to the coconut milk powder reference...apologies

According to the manufacturers of coconut powder & coconut flour, they are one and the same.

[nai]

I had a problem with finding coconut powder from my local tesco yesterday. I had to use desicated coconut instead. I checked the goodnessdirect.co.uk site and they have both coconut powder and coconut flour on sale. The flour is used as a gluten free alternative to wheat flour, the powder is advertised as a rich and creamy sauce ideal for use in curries, etc.

[nai]

I headed over to Mullaco Asian supermarket in Dewsbury yesterday and bought some 'maggi' coconut milk powder, 150g, for ?1.29. http://www.mullaco.com/

http://www.spicesofindia.co.uk/acatalog/Indian-Food-Maggi-Coconut-Milk-Powder.html

[nai]

Weird! I've been to three large Asian supermarkets during the past few days and none of them stock 'coconut powder'. All three stocked coconut flour (in large sacks, which makes me wonder whether this stuff is used in bir cooking) coconut milk powder (in smaller box packets) and descicated coconut (in a range of pack sizes). I get by fine with coconut milk powder. May also give the flour a try. very odd that none of the three stock the powder

[Secret Santa]

Weird! I've been to three large Asian supermarkets during the past few days and none of them stock 'coconut powder'. All three stocked coconut flour (in large sacks, which makes me wonder whether this stuff is used in bir cooking) coconut milk powder (in smaller box packets) and descicated coconut (in a range of pack sizes). I get by fine with coconut milk powder. May also give the flour a try. very odd that none of the three stock the powder

When people refer to coconut powder nai they mean coconut milk powder. The BIRs use coconut flour, that's why they stock big bags of it in the Asian grocers.