Recipes with Coconut milk
5 recipes
There are 5 recipes here that use Coconut milk, and every one of them is scored against what is actually in your fridge before it is shown. The quickest is Banana in Palm Sugar Coconut Milk at 30 minutes; the longest, Chicken in White Coconut Curry, takes 60.
None of these need an oven, an air fryer, or a microwave — a stove and a pan is enough. 2 are vegetarian. 2 have no chili at all, so they work for children. 2 are properly spicy.
Coconut milk turns up most often alongside Galangal, Indonesian bay leaf, Palm sugar and Red chili — if you have one or two of those as well, more of this list becomes cookable tonight rather than after a shopping trip. Add what you have to your fridge and the recipes reorder themselves around it, with anything missing collected into a shopping list.
Vegetables in Coconut Milk
Gentle coconut richness. Never cover the pot after the coconut milk goes in — it will split.
⏱ 35 min🍽 5 servingsMedium
Chicken in White Coconut Curry
Pale gold, rich, and fragrant with spice. The key is frying the paste until genuinely cooked.
⏱ 1 h🍽 5 servingsMedium
Spicy Potato and Chicken Liver
The potato is diced small and fried crisp first — that is what separates it from the soggy version.
⏱ 40 min🍽 5 servingsMedium
Catfish in Spiced Coconut Broth
The catfish is fried crisp first, then briefly simmered in spiced coconut broth. It stays firm rather than going soft.
⏱ 40 min🍽 3 servingsMedium
Banana in Palm Sugar Coconut Milk
The coconut milk goes in last and must never boil hard. Once it splits, there is no fixing it.
⏱ 30 min🍽 4 servingsEasy