Koprapak (coconut sweet dish)

Name: Koprapak (coconut sweet dish)
Total time: 1500 s
Yield: 4-serving
Cuisine: Indian
Ingredients: 1 Cup coconut shredded; 2 Cups milk; 1/3 Cup sugar; 2 Tablespoons butter clarified; 2 Tablespoons almonds - vertically thin slices; optional 1 Teaspoon cardamom cinnamon powder or powder

Shivani Nair @cook_7804171

Austin, TX, USA

Kopra pak is a very simple dish. The main ingredient of this is coconut.

Shivani Nair @cook_7804171

Austin, TX, USA

Kopra pak is a very simple dish. The main ingredient of this is coconut.

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Ingredients

25 mins

4-serving

1 Cupcoconut shredded
2 Cupsmilk
1/3 Cupsugar
2 Tablespoonsbutter clarified
2 Tablespoonsalmonds - vertically thin slices
optional 1 Teaspooncardamom cinnamon powder or powder

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Steps

25 mins

1

Take a heavy bottom pan, add clarified butter and keep it on medium heat
2

Once it’s warm add almonds (Here you can use cashew nuts and pistachios also, as per your liking) and sauté it for about 1 minute
3

Add coconut and mix it, stir it continuously for 2 minutes
4

Add milk slowly and mix it well
5

Stir it continuously for about 7-8 minutes till coconut tenders
6

Add sugar and mix it well
7

At this point you can add cardamom powder or cinnamon powder, in case you like it to be flavored. Note that I did not add it while preparing the recipe
8

Stir it continuously till the mixture becomes thick paste (It will take approximately 8-10 minutes)
9

Take the pan off the stove and keep it aside
10

Grease a flat base plate with clarified butter and spread the paste in a square or rectangle shape with the help of spatula
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Keep it refrigerated for 2 hours then cut it in to desired shape I cut it into square pieces
12

You can store it for maximum a week but keep it refrigerated