Like all Goan sweets, there are two main ingredients that go into making it, Patience and Love. The slower the flame, the tastier the sweet :) Lets see what goes into making this delicacy.
Coconut Ice Main Ingredients:

1 Cup Soji/Rava/Semolina
1 Cup Milk
Less than a Cup of Ghee
200 - 220 Gms Scrapped Coconut
2 & 1/2 Cups Sugar
1 Cup Ground Cashews
1 Table Spoon Butter
1 Tea Spoon Both Almond & Coconut Essence
Small Quantity of Cochineal or Red Colour

Procedure:
All the main ingredients have to be mixed together, you start off by heating the ghee and rava.

Make sure your flames on the lowest possible flame, add the sugar and ground cashew to the coconut ice mixture as well.

You can either do this step earlier, thats grind the coconut and milk together to get coconut milk.

Once your coconut milks ready you can add it to the mixture.

Now comes an essential part in most Goan sweets, stirring on a slow flame. Fast flames never get the desired result, patience is the key.

Keep Stirring the mixture, soon you shall see all the ingredients fusing together.

It changes texture and looks like what it does in the picture below.

Its not yet close to done, so change your stirring hand and go on.

As it thickens the stirring gets tougher, but its a good sign, the sweet is getting done.
Once you notice the sweet beginning to leave the sides of the dish, its time for you to add the cochineal or red colour.
The trick to getting the right colour is to always add less, on adding more you cant get the colour you want back if you put in too much.

Once you add the colour, stir it to check and see if its enough.
Add some more if the colours too pale.
Once thats done add the tablespoon of butter don't forget that you still need stir it a little more.
Check the consistency in water, you pour some normal room temperature in a small bowl.
Add a small ball of the mixture in it, if it hardens your Coconut Ice is ready.
If the ball is soft, it still needs to be cooked for some more time.
Add the almond and coconut extract at this time, and remove the mixture from the dish. 
You need to place the mixture on a greased surface, we use the granite platform itself, since its stone its cooler enabling faster cooling of the dish.

Once its out, flatten it, first with your hand and then with a baton to get an even surface.

Make sure its got the right thickness as well, that you would like.
Give it a little time for it too cool off and once thats done you can now cut your coconut ice.
We cut it into simple diamond shapes, which we have for other sweets as well.
Heres some of the coconut ice all cut up.
All the best with your Coconut Ice, I'm sure this coconut ice recipe will help you turn out another delicious goan special.








18 comments:
I have a question here, Clyde - do you add coconut milk or ground coconut + milk to the mixture. Thanks so much for the recipes. Your mom is doing a great job!!
yum yum
wow..this looks fab!!! will try it out. thanks..
Hi,
This is one of the most wonderful recipes that i have read about. It is so simple and yet looks so good. Even my little daughter can help me out with the preparations which i am sure she will enjoy doing.
I am going to try this recipe today itself. Will get back to you once i've tried it.
Woooow! I guess,the end result is worth all that pain while stirring.Very good recipes...
hi,
just stumbled upon your blog when searching for authentic seafood goan recipes.you indeed have a very nice blog.
t'row i will be trying your fish curry and let you know how it turned out.
rashmi
Dont know ya buddy, but this site just made my day !! so God Bless and keep it coming. Btw do you have a recipe for goa sausages ?
Hi,
Your recipe site seems lovely and real, just like we do at home not the picture books type ... and the recipes too seem very authentic ....
The step-by-step pictures are very useful and especially the dough at different stages was good !!! Thanks so much
Great recipe. Aunty please post a recipe for authentic goan fish cutlets.
Aunty please post recipe for goan fish cutlets and mutton chops.
hi,
the best goan blog on the net. thanks to u and ur mom.
riya
It is really great to see you posting this wonderful recipies. I pray to god that he may give you abundance streanght and love, keeping going. God bless you.
Julie Fernandes
boy oh boys this is the authentic goan receipe site and you cant imagine how cooks will start losing their jobs when everyone begins totry out these AUTHENTIC receipes...Yummy....love u jguys and god bless...susan
Excellent recipes with pictures and easy steps to follow. God bless for sharing which is the key point.
Hey Clyde,
Tried it out & it needless 2 say it was awesome!
Since I was out of red so add a dash of orange it turned a beautiful peach colour.Thanx a ton fr da recipe.
Regards,
Melita.
Hi,
I was looking for authentic goan recipe as my husband is goan and I am a gujju...our kid loves goan food and i could never find a recipe that was simple and easy to follow, it looked so daunting with all these ingredients and cook time...but your site is the best :) its very simple and my boy loves when I cook goan recipe and hubby is enjoying the food too so thank you so much .....
Eva
doubt...do i squeeze out the juice of the ground coconut n milk or do i add coconut paste + milk??
Merel
@ Merel
the ghee used here is dalda ghee!
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