Can you Scrape Coconut for a Competition?These ladies can and they are from Sri Lanka!
Do you use coconut milk for your cooking? In Sri Lanka, most of our cooking is associated with coconut milk.We also use coconut oil and grated coconut. Usually we get coconut milk by scraping coconut. This freshly squeezed coconut milk is always delicious and that adds good aroma and taste for the Sri Lankan dishes.
However, scraping coconut is a bit lazy task for me. I know it is same for most of ladies. But, we Sri Lankans do that daily in order to get coconut milk for daily cooking.
Today I thought of sharing some interesting photos of a competition of coconut scraping. I captured these photos during Last year April visit to Sri Lanka.
In Sri Lanka, we celebrate New Year in April. Usually the New Year falls around 12th-14th of April and this day depends on an auspicious time. There are lot of traditions attached with the New Year and basically it is for family reunion.
After the auspicious time, that is after we start our New Year, there are festivals around to celebrate the New Year. Usually these festivals are full of traditional games. Interestingly, these games are full of fun.
Coconut scraping is one of such games where ladies in this competition scrape one coconut .The one who finish scraping a coconut become the winner.
However, there are some other rules too. That is, the scraped coconut must be thin and soft. Cannot have big pieces etc.
If you like to read about different cultural activities, I am sure you’ll like to see these pictures.
Here are some pictures of the coconut scraping contest.
Here are some pictures of the coconut scraping contest.
All the ladies had a coconut scraper from their home. Can you see the coconut scraper? That is one of the must have equipments in a Sri Lankan kitchen.
Here is a close picture of a coconut scraper.(aka hiramanaya)
Organizers of the festival gave a coconut for each lady. They broke the shell of the coconut and prepared for the competition.
They were ready with coconut in hand and waiting for the signal to start the competition.
Competition started. All the ladies started to scrape coconut.
They all were so fast. I captured photographs thinking, ah how energetic they are when scraping coconut. Because this is one of my laziest job in the kitchen. Luckily in Singapore, I use store bought coconut cream packets.
Most of the ladies were near to complete the scraping of the coconut.
Finally one lady completed scraping of whole coconut. She was the winner. 🙂
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This is how we also scrape our coconut! We have one of those scarper at home in the Philippines as a lot of our food are with coconut milk =)
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Nice that theses day’s you can find a competition for just about everything, not to mention each country has there very own little secrets as to what to do for fun.
Great pictures.
Great photos! So interesting to learn about this coconut scraping competition. Thanks for sharing!
This is awesome, i had never heard of such a competition! We use a lot of coconut in our cooking too (maharashtrian cooking) and the scraper that you have shown, we call it is ‘villi’. Nice post!
Used to be what we did but now, we buy. Interesting to read about the competition.
Wow, really interesting and so easy to follow with the photos. I am always amazed when I see the men climb to get the coconuts, but this takes it a step beyond what I have seen before.
That’s a really interesting competition. It’s really not that easy to scrape a coconut.
Nice photos interesting too 🙂
Have a coconuttastic week 😉
Wow, that is cool!! I doubt I could do it very well 🙂 Though I’ve never tried!
How interesting and cool all at the same time. Great photos too!
Very nice photos and thanks for teaching me something new.
This is fascinating. Thanks for sharing!
How interesting. Great photos. I always struggle to know what to do when we are gifted a coconut.
I cook with coconut all the time but have never scraped a coconut. This is amazing!
Thanks for sharing at OMHG WW!
That is such an interesting competition.
I wonder where I would rank had I participated.
Loved your post – thanks so much for sharing!
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Wow! I’ve never even thought of having to do something like that. I’ll have to look up some Sri Lankan recipes sometime. . . .. here maybe!
I always think of scraping the coconut is so much work. I cut a coconut only once when I was much younger and didn’t have a coconut scraper to help me. I think cooking with fresh coconuts would be much fresher and tastier but here I mostly buy it ready to use in a can.
What a good idea for a competition!
I’m rather fond of coconut but can’t often get a fresh one. They were popular when I was a child, we used to get them from the local market, We used to bore holes in them and drink the milk, then smash the coconut with a hammer, then eat the juicy coconut.
I use creamed coconut for curry recipes or tinned coconut milk is delicious in a Chicken Korma,
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It reminds me of my home Indonesia…we use a lot of coconut and we always try to get the freshly scrapped coconuts to cook many of our recipes. What a great contest…I can imagine how lively it is…and fun :). Cheers..
You COULD put the lime in the coacoanut and drink it all up.
ROG, ABCW
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