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Coconut milk

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Coconut milk is made by pressing grated coconut flesh with water, producing a rich, white liquid that is mildly sweet and nutty, with a fat content that gives curries their silky body. Tinned versions separate into thick cream on top and thinner milk below; Thai cooks often fry curry paste in that cream until the oil splits out, a technique behind dishes like Green Curry with Chicken and Thai Basil. In Rice and Peas it cooks into the rice with thyme and beans, perfuming every grain. Shake the tin well unless a recipe wants the layers. Simmer rather than boil hard, which can make it grainy. Leftovers keep for a few days covered in the fridge.

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Recipes with coconut milk

Goan Fish Curry — shot from directly overhead: white fish poached in a coconut and tamarind sauce ground from whole spices
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Goan Fish Curry

White fish poached in a coconut and tamarind sauce ground from whole spices, sour and hot in equal measure and cooked in under half an hour.

35 minServes 4
30 minutesCurriesDinner
Green Curry with Chicken and Thai Basil — shot from directly overhead: cracking the coconut cream before the paste goes in is the step most recipes skip
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Green Curry with Chicken and Thai Basil

Cracking the coconut cream before the paste goes in is the step most recipes skip, and the one that decides whether this tastes fried or boiled.

45 minServes 4
ChickenCurriesDinner
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Rice and Peas — shot from directly overhead: rice cooked in coconut milk with kidney beans
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Rice and Peas

Rice cooked in coconut milk with kidney beans, thyme and a whole scotch bonnet left in the pot and never broken.

55 minServes 6
CaribbeanSide dishesVegan