Coconut soup sliced, chopped or shredded. Green coconut fruit from young coconuts can also be used to prepare coconut soup, and coconut water and coconut oil are sometimes used as ingredients. Many various coconut soups exist in the world, with myriad ingredients used. Coconut soup is sometimes prepared in combinations using other ingredients, such as chicken, potato, or curry. It can be served as a hot or cold soup. "Sopito" is a common fish soup or fish chowder in Aruba and Curaçao of the Lesser Antilles. The dish uses coconut milk and salt-cured meat as main ingredients. Coconut water is also often
Coconut are filled with rice and cooked to make "ketupat". Dried coconut leaves can be burned to ash, which can be harvested for lime. In India, the woven coconut leaves are used as "pandals" (temporary sheds) for marriage functions especially in the states of Kerala, Karnataka, and Tamil Nadu. Copra is the dried meat of the seed and after processing produces coconut oil and coconut meal. Coconut oil, aside from being used in cooking as an ingredient and for frying, is used in soaps, cosmetics, hair oil, and massage oil. Coconut oil is also a main ingredient in Ayurvedic oils. In