7Ray Organic Virgin Coconut Oil 500ml

Cold pressed in Sri Lanka from fresh coconut and sold in a glass jar, this is the grade of coconut oil you buy when you want to taste the coconut. It sets white and firm in a cool kitchen and carries a clean coconut smell into everything it touches, which is the whole point of it in a Kerala or Sri Lankan curry, and the reason it is no good at all when you want the spice to lead. For that, take the 7Ray Organic White Coconut Cooking Oil 500ml instead.

How to use it

Use it for the tarka, in sweets and baking in place of butter, and on toast once the kitchen is warm enough to spread it. Most South Asian homes keep a jar for hair and skin too, and this one is clean enough for both jobs.

Good to know

• Certified organic: EU LK-BIO-149 (non-EU agriculture), USDA Organic, Control Union

7Ray press their oil in Sri Lanka from fresh nuts instead of refining imported crude, so the virgin grade still smells of coconut. We stock both of their grades, from 7Ray, in the oils and ghee department.