Ingredient Challenge: Coconut

Ingredient Challenge: Coconut

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Coconuts are one of the few ingredients that immediately conjure images of palm trees, and by extension, warm, tropical days spent sipping the refreshing water out of the cavity of their tough shells. Not sure people realize there’s young coconut, and the water inside, but the milk we often see in Thai restaurants comes from pressing on the grated flesh from the inside of the more mature coconut. Coming up on this episode, a coconut challenge with Chef Patty Neumson from the upscale Thai restaurant Herb, as she and Rick attempt to come up with an easy weeknight meal in 15 minutes or less, using just some coconut, plus five extra ingredients you can find pretty much anywhere.