Easy things to do with coconut milk..(must be vegetarian)

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HELP!

(I'm making peanut sauce with it, which is the reason i bought it, but yet again, i fear i'm going to let the rest of the can go to waste, unless i can find something else to do with coconut milk that's easy and quick to make. Any curry powders out there that would fit a "Curry powder + Coconut Milk + Tofu + heat = goodness" variety? Dessert ideas welcome too)

― donut bitch (donut), Monday, 1 September 2003 23:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Coconut Milk + Rice + Heat = A flavorful treat

― ModJ, Monday, 1 September 2003 23:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Those curry pastes in a jar, like sharwoods and pataks (do they have those in the US?) are great with coconut milk. Just make them with some veggies and/or tofu. Fried onions, then add the curry paste, the veg/tofu, fry some more, then fill in with coconut milk... YUM!

― Trayce (trayce), Monday, 1 September 2003 23:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Soup! Saute any of the following, in order from longest cooking time to least, roughly: carrot, chile, onion, bok choy, lemon grass, ginger, garlic. Add can of coconut milk, a few cups of water, fish sauce if you have it and soy sauce if you don't. Simmer for twenty minutes or so (optionally, add broken rice in the last three or four minutes, if you have and like broken rice). Top with chopped scallions, cilantro, chiles, peanuts, as you like.

(You could put tofu in there somewhere, and it would probably be better with it; I don't know enough about cooking tofu to say where, though.)

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 1 September 2003 23:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Can I marry you, Tep? =D

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I believe you can also substitute coconut milk for the liquid ingredient in any fruit/nut bread (banana bread, carrot bread, apple bread, and so on), provided that ingredient isn't buttermilk (Her Ladyship Chemistry is involved in that one). My aunt's banana bread is made that way, iirc.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Only if you can fly me to Melbourne, Trayce :)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 00:02 (twenty-two years ago)

*looks at bank balance*

Damn :(

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

You would also have to be prepared for my wanting to cook kangaroo, and saying things like, "I'm bored. Can we go to the Outback?" for at least the first year of being there :) (And I don't drive.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 00:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Just got back from the market with red curry paste, red bell pepper, and carrots. armed with tofu. ready to cook. bows to trayce and tep. FIRE!

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 00:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Just send us some in the mail, DB ;)

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)

my goodness but this thread title sounds like a dirty personal ad!

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 01:43 (twenty-two years ago)

SWM seeks spicy dish ready for my coconut milk. Must be vegetarian, green okay, and accept that you are only one course in the buffet of my life.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 01:48 (twenty-two years ago)

pervalists!

― donut bitch (donut), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 01:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Also, Sterling Clover: To thread

― ModJ, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 01:58 (twenty-two years ago)

This time I didn't start it. My karma is healed.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 01:59 (twenty-two years ago)

The ubiquitous Thai Green Curry is easier to make than you'd think, and by making it from scratch you can avoid fish sauce and other things made from fermented seafood.

What I do is to blenderize a handful of cilantro/coriander (stocks and all) and a handful of Thai basil (has as mintier aroma and neat purple stalks).

The rest of the ingredients are very similar to Tep's soup recipe above. I use shallots, lemongrass, garlic, ginger (I have never been able to find galangal root), seeded thai chilis, a little sesame oil, a little soy sauce, and the zest of a lime (I haven't been able to find lime leaves).

All those things are added to the already pulverised ciliantro/coriander and basil, and given a final blending. The result should be a disgusting green paste. Throw it in the frying pan and let it sautee for a few minutes (mostly to cook the shallots) and then add half a tin of coconut milk. You will taste it and find it unsatisfactory. That is because at this point, the miraculous addition of simple sea salt will complete the transition from disparate ingredients to the classic green curry flavour. You may at this point decide to add more coconut milk. Never add the whole can without salting it and tasting it first, as the salt changes the flavour quite dramatically.

― fields of salmon (fieldsofsalmon), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 05:52 (twenty-two years ago)

This is why I prefer Indian curry pastes - they dont have the fish sauce in them (not sure if they really are vegetarian tho? I'm not a vegetarian so its moot to me).

I always wondered wtf cilantro was - its coriander! Of course. God I hate that stuff. I'm crap with Thai food as a result - I loathe coriander and lemongrass and chilli! heh. But I love sweet sweet mild coconut curries, like yellow (kari kai) curry, and satay.

Damn I'm hungry now.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 05:56 (twenty-two years ago)

What's the difference between red and green curry paste? I have only/mainly - hey I have WAY too many ingredients stuck in my cupboards - green curry paste.

― nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 06:08 (twenty-two years ago)

mangos and sticky rice w/the coconut milk poured over the rice is food of the heavens

(on sundays at the thai temple in Berkeley they have a cheap brunch w/amazing thai food. they serve this and it's the best thing in the world)

― JasonD (JasonD), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 08:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I pour leftover coconut milk into ice cube trays and freeze it. Works quite well -- I just grab a handful of cococubies and toss them in when I'm making a curry.

― quincie, Tuesday, 2 September 2003 14:06 (twenty-two years ago)

hi, cholesterol

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 15:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Onions + garlic heated in oil till they brown, add tofu in tiny strips, black pepper is grebt at this point. When fried to your liking add coconut milk, curry powder (Sherwoods Extra Hot or just Hot will do), tomato paste (not too muc), vinegar/tabasco, cheynne pepper and other such sundries to taste and cubed potatoes + add water to cover everything. Simmer covered till the sauce gets a good consitency, add chick peas with about 15 minutes to go. Serve with rice and other yummy things. That fine?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

pour rum in it. drink it. say "yummy".

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

coconut milk doesn't have any cholesterol! Fat, sure, but cholesterol only comes from animals.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 16:50 (twenty-two years ago)

doesn't it have very high amounts of saturated fat, which turn into cholesterol once they're inside an animal, like a person?

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:40 (twenty-two years ago)

my ex-gf is a vegetarian and she had wicked high cholesterol (mainly from cheese and unlucky genes) but she was told to lay the eff off the coconut milk & oil, which pretty much spelled the end of our relationship.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Coconut milk + ice cubes + sugar + vanilla extract + blender = shakey goodness. Add rum if desired.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Who in their right minds does not desire rum though?

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 17:59 (twenty-two years ago)

There are anti-rum activists. We must break their spirit.

Tep, write the goddamn cookbook already.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I only drink rum from a dead man's chest. Or some other homeerotic pirate thing like that.

― Horace Mann (Horace Mann), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Arrr! I only drink me rum from a bonnie boy's bum!

― Homoerotic Pirate (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

SQUAWK! BONNY BOY'S BUM! SQUAWK!

― Homoerotic Pirate Parrot (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:22 (twenty-two years ago)

"Homoerotic Pirate"...what, as opposed to non-homoerotic pirate? psh.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:24 (twenty-two years ago)

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"Arr, a triple shot this eve."

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 18:26 (twenty-two years ago)

i got this off the internet but i had some on sunday afternoon so it popped into mind:

Tom Yum Tofu

Ingredients:

1 1/2 pints vegetable stock
14oz coconut milk (tinned is fine)
3 tbsp chopped coriander
1 large onion chopped
3 cloves garlic crushed
1 or two fresh chillies chopped and deseeded
1 tbsp groundnut oil
250g tofu cut into half inch cubes
2 stalks lemon grass peeled and bashed
8oz tomatoes (tinned is fine)
half a cup dry Thai jasmine rice, cooked
Directions:
Place rice in rice cooker (or just cook rice). Place cubed tofu on a lightly oiled baking pan and bake in a medium oven for 20-30 minutes, turning occasionally.

Meanwhile, sauté onion, garlic, lemon grass and chillies in oil until onion is cooked through. Add tomatoes, stock and coconut milk, bring to light boil and then simmer. When tofu is cooked, (it should be a bit dried out and maybe starting to brown a little), remove from oven.

Fish out the lemon grass stalks and discard. If you have a handheld blender, whizz the soup until smooth (optional). Then add the tofu and coriander.

Spoon some rice into a bowl and top with the tom yum and serve.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 22:22 (twenty-two years ago)

the curry i made yesterday is still burning new holes inside of me. yeeeefuckingowwwwww!

― donut bitch (donut), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 00:21 (twenty-two years ago)

You hott lad.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 00:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Tep, write the goddamn cookbook already.

I'm actually gonna. Usually I write a short story for everyone for Christmas (actually, I may do this as well, and I'll like ... make a "this is Tep's Christmas present to ILE" thread or some twee thing and put it there), but this year I think a cookbook is in order.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 01:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Hurrah! :-)

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 01:34 (twenty-two years ago)

I want some of that curry!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 3 September 2003 01:49 (twenty-two years ago)

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