Coconut cookies - Macaroons

In modern world, when we hear the name macaroons, the picture in mind would be the lacy, colorful, fancy cookies. But the traditional ones are not that eye candy, but the fancy ones cannot beat the taste of it. So here I m talking about coconut macaroons, which doesn't have any fancy look, but when you dip in your mouth...Mm it just melts in your mouth.

So as you know Coconut, one of my obsessions I developed lately, and it started when I moved from Kerala to Bangalore. Coconut was never a public figure till then to me coz we have that in and out in everything we eat daily. But moving out of Kerala, I faced this question from every non mallu, "you guys are coconut eaters no".

Was taken aback by that question first time, but lately got attuned to it. Then I realized, coconut needs support from mallus, and then have seen the other part of it the "health benefits". Now I have those YouTube videos to preach about Coconut to my gang of non mallus, and finally they had to accept, yeah it's really a treasure mallus have ;)

So now it's time for the recipe :)

Ingredients:

Desiccated coconut - 2 cup
Thick coconut milk or coconut cream - 1/2 cup
Granulated sugar - 1/2 cup

Chocolate Dip

Dark chocolate, chopped - 1 cup
Coconut oil - 2 tsp

Method:

Mix all ingredients together and make lemon sized balls out of it. Flatten a bit and bake in preheated oven at 190 C for 20 mins or until lightly brown.

Cool completely in wire rack and dip one side in chocolate ganache.

Note: No intention of regional favoritism. I love every cuisine and embrace every culture :)

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