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• Recipe Overview
• Ingredients
• Processes - Utensils
• Instructions

• Cuisine

  Latin American >> Mexican >> Mexican

• Dietary Style

• Source

  Genius Kitchen(food.com)

| 1. Hull and peel the coconut, reserving and straining the liquid. | 2. Grate the meat (it should be medium-fine). | 3. Measure the coconut liquid and add enough tap water to bring the total quantity to 1 cup. | 4. Place the grated coconut in a medium-size, heavy saucepan, stir in the liquid and sugar and set over medium heat. | 5. Cook, stirring frequently, until the coconut becomes transparent (it will look almost candied) and the liquid has reduced to a glaze, 20 to 30 minutes longer, to evaporate its liquid, then remove from the fire. | 6. Beat the yolks with the milk or cream, stir in several tablespoons of the hot coconut, then carefully stir the warm yolk mixture into the coconut remaining in the pan. | 7. Return to medium-low heat and stir constantly until lightly thickened, about 5 minutes. | 8. Scrape the cocada into an ovenproof serving dish. | 9. Spread the almonds onto baking sheet and toast in a 325 oven until lightly browned, about 10 minutes. | 10. Shortly before serving, heat the broiler. | 11. Dot the cocada with butter, run under the heat and let brown for a minute or so. | 12. Watch carefully: The sugar in the cocada will caramelized very quickly. | 13. Strew with the toasted almond slices and the dessert is ready to serve. | 14. Rick's Notes: After the egg-yolk mixture goes into the hot coconut, make sure the heat under your pan isn't too high, or the yolks can curdle. | 15. In no case should the coconut mixture come near a boil. | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------

Estimated Nutritional Profile for Ingredients

Ingredient Name	Quantity	Unit	State	Energy (kcal)	Carbohydrates	Protein (g)	Total Lipid (Fat) (g)
coconut	1			1405.38	60.4631	13.2201	132.9553
sugar	1	cup		805.98	201.59599999999998	0.0	0.0
sherry	1 1/2	1/2	sweet	-	-	-	-
egg yolk	6			328.44	3.6618	16.1772	27.0708
milk	3	tablespoons		27.45	2.151	1.4175	1.4715
almond	1/2	cup	sliced	963.56	0.0	0.0	109.0
butter	1 1/2	tablespoons	unsalted cut	152.721	0.0128	0.18100000000000002	17.2764

- Means that suitable USDA nutrition profile could not be mapped for this ingredient-unit combination.