A Raw Vegan Recipe with Shortcuts
You can buy both young coconuts and frozen kefir leaves at Asian markets, but you can also find the young coconuts at many health food stores. Young coconuts have a delicious jelly-like meat inside, along with some of water which is super-high in electrolytes and nutrients. These are a staple food to many raw foodists. The only drawback is that the seemingly impenetrable husk takes some practice in learning how to open, but I provide a shortcut so that you can enjoy this soup often:
Asian markets also usually carry frozen shredded young coconut meat in their frozen food section. They are slightly preserved and do contain sugar, so while defrosting I open the package and place the frozen coconut meat in a colander so that the sugared water will run off. Then run fresh water over the meat for several minutes to remove the rest. You can also buy some preservative-free coconut water to blend with the defrosted young coconut.