I had made this before with young Thai coconut but tonight I got a cheap regular brown coconut cheap at the Asian market so made some with this.
You need a v slicer that does the very thin slices (mine does just above paper thin).
Slice the coconut thinly or if using a young Thai coconut, peel out the thin gel like coconut meat (it is quite different in texture from the mature brown coconuts and has a lot more water which is a healthy drink).
Then add 2 or 3 drops of liquid smoke, 2 or 3 tbs of extra virgin olive oil and 2 or 3 tbs of nama shoyu (unpasteurized/raw soy sauce) or braggs liquid amino acid.
Add to the coconut and mix well.
To make it raw dehydrate at 105 degrees with a temperature controlled dehydrator about 12 hours.
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I also made a fresh juice with it that turned out to be very tasty
I juiced about 1/2 a coconut, a small beet and 1 large or 2 smaller carrots.
Do the coconuts a few pieces at a time then juice the beet and carrot to it.
If you juice the beet separately, one could use the coconut carrot pulp for a coconut carrot raisin bread if you eat any cooked foods or maybe can make some kind of similar raw bread in the dehydrator.
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This juice was recommended by the father of modern juice movement raw foodist Dr Walker.
He used 11 ox carrot. 3 oz beet and 2 oz carrot juice.
He used this for the following ills:
VERY HELPFUL for cystitis, enuresis (urinary incontinence),
gall bladder trouble and gallstones, gout, Hodgkin's disease,
HELPFUL for anemia, albuminuria (albumin in the urine),low blood pressure, dropsy, jaundice, kidney trouble such as excess uric acid, liver trouble, nephritis (kidney inflammation), pyelitis (inflammation of pelvis or kidneys that;s uric acid related), kidney stones, sciatica, scurvy, sexua| diseases, sterility,and uremia.
If you want to know what other juices help any of these or other diseases, let me know and I'll look it up.
yes you should try it. I think it is pretty close considering. Some people use eggplant but I don't think that sounds as good.
It also kind of looks like bacon if you leave a little of the soft brown skin on it.
It makes a good snack just as is or I think would be kind of like bacon bits in salads or maybe omelets if one eats eggs.
I got it from this book I think (or maybe small chance it was one of her other books as I have several she does a good book for raw foods).
http://www.amazon.com/Anis-Raw-Food-Kitchen-Delectable/dp/1600940005/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1361607207&sr=1-2&keywords=ani+raw
I got the regular hard brown coconut most of us grew up with a lot cheaper at the Asian/Indian markets than a regular store and one of my Asian stores sells young Thai coconut for $1.59 compared to like 4 bucks at whole food (they might not be as safe as the organic ones though).
You could try both young Thai immature coconut and the very mature brown coconuts and see which tastes better for you.
They also sell different kinds of liquid smoke which might give different taste to it.
If you have a temperature controlled dehydrator like Excalibur, and do it at 105 degrees, it will be a raw food.
I bet if one added it to a tempeh sandwich with veganaisse, tomato and lettuce it would taste kind of like a BLT.
In fact I tried it that way minus the tempeh and it did taste like that. Was very good sandwich. One coyld even use a raw bread with it if theyfind a good dehydrator bread recipe.
I use this soy sauce that's unpasteurized.
http://www.amazon.com/Goldmine-Nama-Shoyu-10-oz/dp/B0018PUIVW/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1361607733&sr=8-2&keywords=nama+shoyu
You can check around for best price or use a regular one form health food store if not concerned about raw. Its good to make greens when massage into raw kale or some other green I use white miso and raw apple cider vinegar with it garlic if desired and this can be eaten as it (massage the greens about 5 minutes) till wilted or one can dehydrate for to die for raw kale chips which is a good way to get raw greens into ones diet besides green smoothies. Can also add thinly sliced onions to the massage mix before massaging.
Greens are pound for pound THE most nutritious food on the planet according to green smoothie queen Victoria Boutenko who did an extensively study of nutritional content of greens, she found contain every nutrient but one b12.