Dry coconut (copra / kopra)
Nuts & Dried Fruit
Roasted into Maharashtrian masalas, chutney podi and ladoo.
What to know
Dry-roast until it smells nutty and turns the colour of straw. Raw, it tastes of nothing and goes chewy.
- If you cannot get it
- Try: coconut fresh
Measures
- 1 cup ≈ 75 g
- 1 tbsp ≈ 6 g
Cups here are the Indian 200 ml cup, not the 240 ml US cup — a common reason a recipe does not work. Weigh where you can; the grams are the figure we cook to.