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Dish of the week: Holubtsi

13 Coconut Recipes From 10 Cuisines.

The flesh is used fresh and grated across South and Southeast Asia, toasted for texture and nuttiness in Indonesian serundeng, or dried into desiccated flakes for baking. Sri Lankan sambol, South Indian chutneys and Brazilian coastal dishes all start with grated coconut rather than the canned milk. Cracking a whole nut is a chore, so frozen grated coconut is a legitimate shortcut most cooks in the region also use. Toast it gently; it burns instantly.

13 recipes on this route

The recipes.

Stacked cornstarch alfajores filled with dulce de leche, their rims rolled in shredded coconut

Argentina1 hr 42 min

Alfajores de Maicena

Argentine Cornstarch Cookies with Dulce de Leche

Golden ANZAC biscuits with visible oats and coconut cooling on a wire rack, one broken to show the chewy centre

Australia30 min

ANZAC Biscuits

Oat and Golden Syrup Cookies

Golden semolina cake cut into diamonds in a tin, each piece topped with a peanut and glossy with syrup

Sudan2 hr 30 min

Basbousa

Sudanese Semolina Cake in Lemon Syrup

Small crimped coconut tarts with dark sticky grated coconut filling cooling on a wire rack

Jamaica2 hr 15 min

Gizzada

Pinch-Me-Round Coconut Tart

Squares of sponge cake coated in chocolate icing and desiccated coconut, one split open showing jam and cream

Australia13 hr 20 min

Lamingtons

Chocolate and Coconut Sponge Squares

Stacked Nanaimo bars showing a dark crumb base, pale yellow custard layer and glossy chocolate top

Canada3 hr 10 min

Nanaimo Bars

No-Bake Coconut Custard Squares

White and pale green glutinous rice balls rolled in grated coconut, one split to show palm sugar syrup running out

Cambodia45 min

Num Plae Ai

Khmer Palm Sugar Rice Balls

Baking dish of om ali with a blistered golden cream top, chopped pistachios scattered over bubbling milk and soaked pastry

Egypt1 hr 15 min

Om Ali

Egyptian Bread Pudding with Nuts and Cream

A mound of brick-red Sri Lankan pol sambol made from scraped coconut, chile and red onion with a lime half beside it

Sri Lanka15 min

Pol Sambol

Sri Lankan Coconut Chili Relish

Dark shredded beef rendang in a heavy pan, coated in dry spiced coconut paste with lemongrass and lime leaves

Malaysia3 hr 35 min

Rendang Daging

Malaysian Dry Coconut Beef

Bowl of yellow urojo soup topped with fried potato bhajia, crisps, green coconut chutney and lime

Tanzania1 hr 15 min

Urojo

Zanzibar Mix Soup

Plate of golden domed vitumbua rice cakes with crisp lacy edges beside a cup of spiced tea

Tanzania2 hr 40 min

Vitumbua

Swahili Coconut Rice Cakes

Every recipe on this route.

All 13 of them, alphabetically, with the country each one comes from.

also known asfresh coconut, grated coconut, nariyal

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