7Ray

7Ray is an organic label built entirely around the coconut. Its packs carry organic certification and short ingredient lists, and the range covers the fat, the sweetener and the milk that a coconut-based kitchen leans on every day. Each product tastes clearly of coconut, from the fragrant virgin oil to the soft caramel notes of the sugar.

From 7Ray we stock organic coconut oil in two styles: virgin, pressed from fresh coconut flesh and full of aroma, and a white cooking oil with a lighter scent for everyday frying. Coconut sugar sits with our palm and kithul jaggery, since it is a close cousin made from the sap of the coconut flower. The organic coconut milk powder keeps well in the cupboard and turns back into milk with warm water.

In a Sri Lankan kitchen, coconut milk powder is the quick route to kiri hodi, a weeknight parippu curry or a pot of kiribath on a Sunday morning. Kerala cooks reach for virgin coconut oil for avial and thoran and a finishing drizzle over puttu, while the white oil handles poppadoms and banana chips. Coconut sugar dissolves into payasam and tea with a gentle toffee note, and it stands in for jaggery in watalappan. Pick the virgin oil when you want to taste the coconut, and the white oil for deep frying where a lighter aroma suits the dish.

Coconut oil turns solid below about twenty four degrees, so a jar in a cool British kitchen will often be white and firm; stand it in warm water for a few minutes and it pours again. Keep the milk powder tightly sealed, as damp air makes it clump. To compare 7Ray with other makers, browse the wider oils and ghee department or the ready made tinned coconut milk shelf.