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7 Great Recipes That Start With Coconut Milk
Coconut milk is a pretty underrated ingredient, but it should definitely be used more often, as it lends a silky texture and fat to boost satiety. You can whip up eggs for breakfast or use it in a creamy soup or stew. Whether you go with full-fat or not, you will still get that nutty, sweet flavor and a thicker consistency than you’d get with many other milks. Here are 7 delicious recipes that use coconut milk for its indulgent flavor and richness.
5 Satisfying & Delicious Ways to Eat Coconut Yogurt for Breakfast
The thing is: food has to be delicious. It seems obvious, but sometimes that message gets lost in all the chatter about nutrients and eating styles. It. Has. To. Taste. Amazing.
Delight Your Hostess with a Healthy Homemade Gift
Your mom taught you to never show up to a party or as an overnight guest without a gift (right?). Nothing is more personal, thoughtful and classy than a beautifully presented homemade gift. But what to make, especially during the rush-rush holiday season?
Coconut Chia Seed Pudding
This is one of my family’s favorites—you may want to double or even triple the recipe (it disappears fast). This also has healthy chia seeds, and is gluten- and lactose-free, which means that it provides energy without inflammation that can be caused by processed foods.
Banana Ice Cream 4 Ways
1 frozen banana plus some simple add-ins like coconut, honey, dark chocolate and almond butter make a delicious, fast and healthy ice cream.
Crunch On These 7 Healthy Chip Alternatives
Craving potato chips? Make these tasty healthy chips to satisfy the urge. It is certainly a yummy and easy way to add more vegetables to your diet.
Coconut Cream Smoothie
Double your coconut pleasure with shredded coconut and coconut milk, along with vitamin-rich nectarines and fiber-rich flax seeds and oats.
Coconut Chia Seed Pudding
A super simple dessert with a creamy sweet flavor and tons of fiber.
Coconut Kefir & Lavender Body Mask
This mask is perfect for dry skin and breakouts on your chest or back. A cheap and natural way to maintain great skin health.
Coconut Lavender Hydrator Mist
A deep hydration mist with anti-inflammatory benefits from lavender water.
How To Bake Like A Paleo Pro
Paleo baking tips, plus a chocolate coconut macaroon recipe, from Cynthia Spivey’s How To Eat Paleo.
Elizabeth’s Chocolate-Dipped Coconut Macaroons
A Paleo-friendly sweet treat, these chocolate-dipped coconut macaroons are easy to taste, and to love.
Coconut Whipped Cream
Coconut can mimic the heavy cream used in making whipped cream, without the cholesterol or the dairy.
Spicy Hot Chocolate
This decadent and luxurious spicy hot chocolate is good for colon and heart health and improving your mood any day.
Like That? Love This! Week 4
4 comfort food snacks and appetizers get a healthy makeover
With the holidays just weeks away, we’re busier than ever, likely feeling a bit stressed and not eating as cleanly as we would like. During these times, we’re more inclined to turn to our favorite comforting snacks and apps but they are often loaded with saturated fat, calories and sugary carbs to say nothing of artificial flavors, preservatives and additives. In our weekly Like That? Love This ! series, we’ve given better-for-you alternatives for comfort food entrees, desserts and breakfasts. This week we’re providing healthier, superfood versions of classic finger foods that you can easily serve at this weekend’s football party, an upcoming holiday spread, or even just whip up for the 3 p.m. hangries. They are simple to make and simply delicious. Smoked Salmon Phyllo Cups One of the most popular crudites, smoked salmon and cream cheese on toast, is a light bite that goes well with just about everything. We’ve enlivened the classic by replacing the bread with crispy light phyllo, adding a heaping dollop of all-natural Arla Cream Cheese (a sponsor of the Like That? Love This! series) and topping it with a thin slice of Omega-3 rich salmon. The Smoked Salmon Phyllo Cups are elegant enough to serve at a splashy holiday party but easy enough to whip up when hunger strikes. Chili Cheese Nachos We all love gooey cheesy nachos, but we don’t love traditional nachos’ high saturated fat, high sodium and sometimes its artificial yellow dye. But that doesn’t mean we should ban nachos from our lives—after all, what is life without an occasional cheesy chip? Angela Liddon’s super healthy cashew, potato, and carrot “cheese” sauce has both good taste and good nutrition. She serves it on her Chili Cheese Nachos, brimming with lentils, red beans, jalapenos and nutritional superstar apple-cider vinegar. A perfect potluck recipe, few dishes will be scarfed up faster at a party. Smashed Avocado Toasts Photo Credit: Leah Johnson The “It” snack of 2016, avocado toast became a snacking staple due to its filling and flavorful profile to say nothing of its high nutritional heart-healthy benefits. We like our amped up version, Smashed Avocado Toast, for its spicy wasabi paste bite and watercress garnish. (And double up on the cress—it’s a true superfood with cancer-fighting phytonutrients.) This super snack will keep you satisfied and sated during even the busiest days. Baked Coconut Crab Dip Crab dips are a retro treat, a sweet, meaty, sometimes cheesy appetizer that was a go-to party food for decades—and due to its hearty, delicious taste, it’s back amongst the foodie cognoscenti. We’ve given it a Brazilian twist and added toasted coconut, coconut oil and coconut water to significantly up its heart-healthy nutrition quotient. Serve the Baked Coconut Crab Dip with plantain chips for a more exotic and authentic flavor. Click here to see the others in the Like That? Love This! series.
Eating Coconut Every Day Just Got Even Easier
From breakfast to afternoon coffee, 5 tasty, healthy ways to eat more coconut
From a delicious coconut mocha for your morning mug to a dairy-free, coconut-milk-based whipped cream, find 5 healthy, easy ways to eat more coconut.
Coconut Mango Smoothie
Coconut and mangoes make a decadent marriage for this creamy, filling, fiber-rich smoothie.
Pumpkin And Coconut Spiced Smoothie
Freezing the bananas and coconut milk gives this smoothie its frothy consistency, so there’s no need for ice.
5 New Coconut Products We Love
Can't get enough of the coconut? Here are new food products that you'll be nuts over
Just when you thought you’d run out of ways to enjoy the tropical taste and nourishing health benefits of coconuts, we’ve found five new yummy products.
The Coconut Shell Game
Meredith Baird's cookbook focuses on all things coconut
Meredith Baird’s Coconut Kitchen Cookbook gives all the health benefits for not just coconut milk and coconut water but also a Coconut Milk Recipe.
Weekend Menu Hacks: A Feast Fit for An Olympian
Get a gold medal from family and friends with this decadent Brazilian meal
Yes, Zika, terrorism, doping scandals and presidential impeachment have dominated the conversation around the Olympics in Rio, but one dive from Michael Phelps, one…
Baked Brazilian Coconut Crab Dip
Also called Casquinha de Siri in Brazil, this healthy version of one of Brazil’s national dishes will become a popular dish in your rotation.
Coconut, Peanut & Cashew Chicken Stew
Also known as Xim Xim de Galinha, this chicken, cashew, coconut stew is a very popular dish in Brazil.
Kitchen Sink Almond Butter Snack Bars
Chockfull of fiber-rich almonds and brown rice cereal as well as heart-healthy coconut (nectar and shredded) and cacao, these energy bars are perfectly portable and eminently delicious. This recipe is from The Clean Plates Cookbook ($17; Running Press) by Jared Koch with Jill Silverman Hough.
The Better-For-You Beverage
Quench your thirst with organic Harmless Harvest coconut water
After having fun in the hot summer sun, don’t you wish you could dive into the center of a cool coconut and lap up all the good hydration of the water within?
6 Fatty Foods You Should Eat
Can't get enough avocados or nuts? Fear not—these ingredients will not make you fat
Afraid of fatty foods? Read this. We found six fatty foods that you could be eating without guilt.
The Top 10 Healthy Food Trends in 2016
At the Summer Fancy Food Show, coconut, chia, and pumpkin take over the aisles
Pickled cauliflower, ginger hemp granola, local maple kefir—these were just a few of the new products that debuted at the Summer Fancy Food Show…
Free Coconut Oil
...and more healthy staples for less from Thrive Market
If your coconut oil lust rivals ours, you’re going to want to grab this chance to snag a free jar of organic virgin coconut oil from Thrive Market.
Ever wonder what sprouted grains are and why they're good for you? Read on...
Take your whole grains to the next level—go sprouted.
2015 Food Trends
What was hot In healthy foods this year
Our goal is to turn you on to new products, recipes, cookbooks and trends that help make clean eating more fun…
Whip It Real Good
A vegan fro-yo alternative arrives in LA
Australia’s CocoWhip—a vegan fro-yo alternative crafted from coconut water and bio-fermented coconut and sweetened with coconut sugar—has arrived in Los Angeles.
You'll want to shell out for all that Coconut Organics offers
You might love coconut, but George Metrik is obsessed with it, so much so that he launched Coconut Organics…
Got extra guests coming, or need to whip up a dish in a hurry? Check out these fast recipe videos for the holidays or any time!
Food Talk: Jil Larsen of Magic Mix Juicery
Magic Mix Juicery founder Jil Larsen used to suffer from melasma, a skin condition that caused dark marks. Since changing her diet, her skin has changed, too. Read what changes she made.