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Toasted Coconut Chips

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Wide shavings of coconut, toasted until the edges brown, salted lightly or left plain.

  • Cut wide, so there is something to bite
  • Toasted to golden, watched rather than timed
  • No added sugar and no glaze
  • Snaps cleanly rather than bending
  • Good in a bowl and good on a plate
$7

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Size: 100g

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Description

Broad chips shaved from mature coconut and toasted until the edges catch and go golden. They snap rather than bend, taste far more of coconut than the desiccated kind ever does, and disappear from a bowl faster than anybody plans.

Desiccated coconut is shredded and dried and mostly there to disappear into a mixture. Chips are the opposite: cut wide and thin so there is something to bite, and toasted so the sugars in the flesh brown and the taste concentrates.

Toasting is the whole trick and it is easy to overdo. A shade past golden and the whole batch tastes scorched, which is why they get watched rather than timed.

Eat them from the bag, scatter them over curd and treacle, or throw a handful over a curry at the table the way roasted coconut gets used in the north.

How to Use

  • Eat them straight from the bag
  • Scatter over curd with treacle
  • Crumble on top of porridge or granola
  • Throw a handful over a curry at the table

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Frequently Asked

No. Desiccated coconut is shredded small and dried so it blends into a mixture and vanishes. Chips are shaved wide and thin and then toasted, so they stay crisp, taste stronger and are meant to be noticed.

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