Coconut Lime Sours Food

COCONUT LIME SOURS

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.
• Combine flour, sugar, and salt in a bowl. Cut in margarine until mixture resembles coarse meal. Press crust into ungreased 10 by 15-inch baking pan. Bake for 15 minutes or until golden brown.
• Mix eggs, nuts, brown sugar, and coconut until well blended; spread over baked crust.
• Bake an additional 30 minutes or until set.
• While still warm, loosen the edges with a metal spatula. Mix together the powdered sugar, lime juice, and zest with a fork. Working quickly, spread the lime paste all over the top with a spatula while still warm. Let cool to room temperature and cut into bars. Cut 11 cuts crosswise and 3 cuts lengthwise.

LIME COCONUT YOGURT

Steps:

• Mix all the ingredients together in a large bowl. Keep sealed in fridge for up to 5 days.

COCONUT-LIME CHICKEN

Steps:

• In a large saucepan, bring the rice, water, coconut milk, sugar and salt to a boil. Reduce heat; cover and simmer for 15-20 minutes or until liquid is absorbed and rice is tender., Meanwhile, in a small bowl, combine the lime juice, soy sauce, lime zest, ginger, vinegar and honey; set aside. In a large skillet, saute chicken in canola and sesame oils until no longer pink. Add lime mixture to the pan. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes. Sprinkle with coconut and cilantro. Fluff rice with a fork and serve with chicken mixture.

COCONUT-LIME SORBET

Steps:

• Combine coconut water and sugar in small saucepan over low heat; stir until sugar dissolves.
• Remove from heat, and allow to cool completely.
• Stir in the coconut milk and lime juice; cover and refrigerate until cold.
• Stir the chilled mixture, then freeze in ice cream maker according to manufacturer’s instructions.
• For a firmer sorbet, transfer to freezer-safe container, and freeze at least 2 hours.

COCONUT-LIME ICEBOX CAKE

Steps:

• Whisk first 3 ingredients until blended. Add lime juice; mix well.
• Pour 1 cup of the sour cream mixture into 8-inch square dish, top with single layer of 9 cookies. (Do not press cookies into sour cream layer.) Repeat layers twice. Cover with remaining sour cream mixture.
• Refrigerate overnight.
• Sprinkle with coconut just before serving.

COCONUT-LIME CUPCAKES

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Grease 12-cup muffin pan or line with baking cups.
• In large bowl, beat butter and sugar at medium speed 5 to 6 minutes or until light and fluffy.
• Beat in egg, 1 tablespoon lime peel and 1 teaspoon lime juice.
• In medium bowl, stir together flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• At low speed, beat sour cream into butter mixture alternately with flour mixture.
• Spoon batter into muffin pan, filling two-thirds full.
• Bake 25 to 30 minutes or until golden brown and toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.
• Cool on wire rack 10 minutes.
• Remove from pan; cool completely.
• In large bowl, beat all frosting ingredients at medium speed until stiff-peaks form.
• Spread each cupcake with frosting; sprinkle with coconut.
• Refrigerate until ready to serve.

COCONUT LIME SQUARES

Steps:

• Make crust:
• Preheat oven to 325°F. and butter and flour an 8-inch square baking pan, knocking out excess flour.
• In a bowl blend together with fingertips flour, butter, coconut, confectioners' sugar, and salt until mixture resembles coarse meal. Pat mixture into prepared pan and bake in middle of oven 25 to 30 minutes, or until golden brown.
• Reduce oven temperature to 300°F.
• Make custard:
• In a bowl whisk together eggs and granulated sugar until combined well and stir in flour, lime juice, and zest.
• Pour mixture over crust and bake in middle of oven 20 minutes. Top custard with coconut and bake 5 to 10 minutes more, or until just set. Cool confection in pan on a rack and chill 1 hour.

COCONUT LIME RICE

Steps:

• Rinse rice until the water runs clear and drain.
• Heat coconut oil and coconut flakes for 3 to 4 minutes.
• Stir in the lime juice and add the coconut milk, chicken broth, salt, and lime zest.
• Bring to a low boil, then cover and reduce heat to low.
• Cook for 20 minutes.
• Remove from heat and keep covered for 5 minutes.
• Fluff with fork and season with pepper.

LIME & COCONUT CREAM PIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350°. On a lightly floured surface, roll pastry dough to a 1/8-in.-thick circle; transfer to a 9-in. pie plate. Trim pastry to 1/2 in. beyond rim of plate; flute edge. Refrigerate while preparing filling., Finely grate, peel and squeeze juice from limes; place both in a blender. Add 1 cup coconut, coconut milk, eggs, sugar, flour, salt and, if desired, extract. Cover and process until blended. Add remaining 1 cup coconut; cover and pulse just until combined. Pour into pastry-lined pie plate (pie will be full)., Bake on a lower oven rack 50-55 minutes or until a knife inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool on a wire rack; refrigerate until cold., In a small bowl, beat cream until it begins to thicken. Add confectioners' sugar; beat until soft peaks form. Spread over pie. Sprinkle with toasted coconut before serving.

SOUR CREAM COCONUT QUICK BREAD

Steps:

• Cream together butter and sugar.
• Beat in eggs and coconut extract.
• Mix in sour cream, then add coconut and mix well.
• Stir flour, baking powder and baking soda together and add to batter and mix well.
• Place batter into greased loaf pan and bake at 350° for 45 to 50 minutes or until done.