Fresh grated coconut

Maitri

Hello all,

Any chance of anybody knowing where can I get freshly grated coconut ready to be picked up vis-a-vis me doing it myself ??

Many thanks!!
Maitri

Nick-H

Get your maid to do it?

Food processor with a grating disc? Not quite the same, but grated a dozen hard, green mangoes in no time flat, for my wife to make pickle, using my trusted old UK Magimix the other day.

rsk11584

Go to some vegetable shop and ask, I remember seeing freshly grated coconut in some shop but dont remember whether it was vegetable shop or some supermarket, ask anyone in vegetable shop, they will tell you.

oleen

I've been hunting for freshly grated coconut too. I tried Spencers and a few local vegetable shops but couldn't find it. I have no food processor or a maid

Nick-H

Sorry to hear that you have neither mixie nor maid! Do you have one of those gadgets for getting coconut out of the shell?

I used to look at packaged ready-washed-and-chopped veg in London supermarkets, at several times the price of the raw alternative, and wonder, "Why?". Whilst coconut is rather more labour-intensive than cabbage, I suspect that the Indian shopper wouldn't even get as far as the 'why'.

nayan

OT - this is THE thing I miss most in India - chopped veggies.

Am extremely lazy. If I have to chop vegetables after reaching home from office and then cook, I give up and usually order food from a restaurant.
(Coordinating with maid is a problem because of my erratic schedule).
If the vegetables are already chopped I can finish cooking in 10-15 mins flat.

price of raw vegetable - Rs10
price of cut vegetable from supermarket - Rs30
price of a dinner ordered from restaurant - Rs100

aruna64

in chennai suriya sweets sells cut veggies can try there for grated coconut too.so does reliance fresh.

suriya has brnches in chennai try one nearest to you

de_cooky

Sitting in the room watching your favourite movie and enjoying hot food from the neighbourhood restaurent...Priceless
There are many things money can buy..peace of mind being the most precious one.

Nick-H

Nayan!

My illusions are shattered . I never expected such a thing of you!

rsk11584

@ Nayan

How many time does it take to chop vegetables?

nayan

OT again -

for me, it takes minimum 10 mins to peel and chop a potato and an onion. I groan and moan every second of those 10 mins. I hate this chore.

When the maid or the husband does it, it seems to take take no more than 2 mins.

Time is a relative concept


Sorry to disappoint

de_cooky

lets run a poll..
Do husbands make good potato peelers

theyyamdancer

Ha, ha. Good one! Mr. T. is a champion potato peeler (he had to do it in the Greek navy...).

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Nick-H

My picture of the traditional Indian woman, squatting on the floor, with one foot on that wooden-board thing with the knife sticking up at the end is in tatters.

Next, you'll be telling me you haven't even got one!*

It's as bad as my wife: she won't let me buy a wet grinder. Now, the fat that we are most unlikely to start making our own idly flour, or drying and grinding our own chilly, has nothing to do with it: an Indian kitchen should have a wet grinder in the corner!



* we haven't got one of those either.

aruna64

i am still waiting for info on ready to be picked up freshly grated coconut !