Hosting Veggie/Fruit A Month - Coconut Event

Hello friends,

I apologize for delay in announcing this event for this month. I could not get in touch with my blogger friend who was hosting this event, so I waited and waited and now ready to host it after a long time.


And, boy, am I glad to host it and have this event make a "home coming" :) And what a coincident that I had hosted it in October 2010 as well as a friend who was hosting then had requested me to.

This month for Veggie/Fruit a Month event, the STAR ingredient is COCONUT. In Indian and many other tropical cuisines coconut is an integral part of their day-to-day cooking. But, there are cuisines, which hardly or never use coconut at all. It will be fun to see all different sides of this tropical fruit.

Found across much of the tropics, the coconut is known for its great versatility as seen in the many domestic, commercial, and industrial uses of its different parts. Every single part of coconut tree and coconut itself is used in some or other other way. Some for cooking, some for medicines and some for making things like brooms etc.

Here are some nutritional values from Wikipedia.

Coconut, meat, raw

Nutritional value per 100 g (3.5 oz)
Energy	1,481 kJ (354 kcal)
Carbohydrates	15.23 g
- Sugars	6.23 g
- Dietary fiber	9.0 g
Fat	33.49 g
- saturated	29.70 g
- monounsaturated	1.43 g
- polyunsaturated	0.37 g
Protein	3.3 g
Thiamine (vit. B1)	0.066 mg (6%)
Riboflavin (vit. B2)	0.02 mg (2%)
Niacin (vit. B3)	0.54 mg (4%)
Pantothenic acid (B5)	0.300 mg (6%)
Vitamin B6	0.054 mg (4%)
Folate (vit. B9)	26 μg (7%)
Vitamin C	3.3 mg (4%)
Calcium	14 mg (1%)
Iron	2.43 mg (19%)
Magnesium	32 mg (9%)
Phosphorus	113 mg (16%)
Potassium	356 mg (8%)
Zinc	1.1 mg (12%)

Sorry, not a very creative logo, but this is the best I could do.

(Coconuts in logo is credited to Google Search).

There are few rules of this event:

• You can use Coconut raw, tender, cooked, toasted, dry or baked. You can use coconut milk or oil or a combo of many from above. But, the only thing is that COCONUT has to be the STAR of the recipe. Get Creative !!!
• It can be any course of the meal (appetizer/main course/side dish/dessert/beverage or breakfast/lunch/dinner/snack).
• Recipe has to be strict vegetarian (eggs are allowed ONLY in baking). This is simply to re-enforce the fact that we can eat veggies without any meat and also for all our vegetarian friends, who do not eat meat.
• You HAVE to make new recipes and old archived posts are not allowed. This is just so that we try and make new fresh recipes :)
• Please send in your entries before end of October 31st 2011.
• If you are a blogger, you can simply send your Name and URL of your recipe at priya DOT mitharwal AT gmail DOT com with the subject of "Veggie/Fruit A Month - Coconut".
• Non bloggers can email me your name, recipe and picture at priya DOT mitharwal AT gmail DOT com with the subject of "Veggie/Fruit A Month - Coconut".
• Link your post to this event.
• Always try to buy and use locally grown veggie and fruits :)

If anyone is interested in hosting it for any of the future months, please feel free to email me or leave a comment here. Here is the future hosting schedule.


So, what are you waiting for. Put on you culinary caps and start cooking a storm.

That's all for now, take care till next post.