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Coconut milk Recipes

10 recipes with coconut milk for weeknights, meal prep, and quick ingredient searches. Choose by time, cuisine, and what is in your kitchen.

10 recipes

Curry Laksa with chicken, coconut milk and rice noodles — Malaysia recipe

🇲🇾MalaysiaMedium

Soups

Curry Laksa

Curry laksa is a Malaysian-Singaporean noodle soup: rice noodles sitting in a spiced coconut curry broth, topped with chicken or shrimp, bean sprouts, and a halved boiled egg. The coconut milk gives the broth a rounded sweetness, the curry paste brings heat and color, and a squeeze of lime at the table cuts through the richness. Malaysia and Singapore each have dozens of regional versions, from mild to fiery.

40 min900 kcal2 serves

🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free💪High protein

Keralan Fish Curry with fish, coconut milk and curry leaves — India recipe

🇮🇳IndiaMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Keralan Fish Curry

Authentic South Indian fish curry from Kerala — tender white fish fillets simmered in a coconut milk sauce with curry leaves, mustard seeds, and tamarind. This isn't your typical creamy curry — it's lighter, tangier, and deeply aromatic from the tempered spices and fresh curry leaves. The tamarind gives it that signature sour note that balances the richness of coconut milk. The golden rule: never stir the fish, just shake the pan gently to keep the fillets intact.

35 min350 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Chickpea and Spinach Curry with chickpeas, spinach and tomatoes — India recipe

🇮🇳IndiaAdvanced

Vegetable and Mushroom Dishes

Chickpea and Spinach Curry

Two cans of chickpeas, a bag of spinach, tomatoes, coconut milk, and a handful of spices. One pan, 35 minutes. The kind of meal that costs almost nothing, reheats perfectly, and somehow gets better the next day. The spice list looks long but everything on it is standard pantry — once you have them, this recipe costs next to nothing per portion.

35 min340 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌾Gluten-free

Rice and Beans with rice, red kidney beans and coconut milk — Jamaica recipe

🇯🇲JamaicaMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Rice and Beans

Long-grain rice cooked together with red beans, coconut milk, thyme, garlic, and allspice in one pot. The Jamaican version — called rice and peas — uses coconut milk and whole Scotch bonnet pepper for fragrance without full heat. The same combination feeds most of the Caribbean and Latin America under different names. Whatever you call it, it is one of the most complete meals you can make from a pantry.

35 min420 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌱Vegan🌶️Spicy

Bánh Xèo (Vietnamese Sizzling Crêpes) with rice flour, turmeric and coconut milk — Vietnam recipe

🇻🇳VietnamAdvanced

Appetizers and Sandwiches

Bánh Xèo (Vietnamese Sizzling Crêpes)

Golden turmeric crêpes fried until shatteringly crisp, filled with pork belly, shrimp, mung bean, and bean sprouts — then folded and eaten wrapped in lettuce with mint and cilantro, dipped in nước chấm. The name means 'sizzling cake': the xèo is the sound the rice flour batter makes the instant it hits the smoking-hot oil. Without that sound, the pan is not hot enough. Getting the crêpe genuinely crisp rather than soft and chewy requires three things: a thin batter, very hot oil, and patience — the crêpe needs 4 to 5 minutes undisturbed before it is ready to fold.

50 min380 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy🌾Gluten-free

Moqueca Baiana (Brazilian Fish and Shrimp Stew) with firm white fish, shrimp and coconut milk — Brazil recipe

🇧🇷BrazilMedium

Fish and Seafood Dishes

Moqueca Baiana (Brazilian Fish and Shrimp Stew)

Moqueca baiana is a Brazilian fish and shrimp stew from Bahia, simmered gently in coconut milk with tomatoes, peppers, onion, and lime, then finished with dendê — red palm oil that turns the sauce a deep orange and adds a nutty, faintly smoky depth found in no other stew. The recipe blends Indigenous, African, and Portuguese cooking, and it's built in layers rather than stirred, cooked on low heat so the fish stays in whole pieces. It's served hot over white rice, straight from the pot it was cooked in.

60 min430 kcal4 serves

💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Nasi Lemak (Malaysian Coconut Rice) with coconut milk, pandan leaves and dried anchovies — Malaysia recipe

🇲🇾MalaysiaAdvanced

Breakfast and Brunch

Nasi Lemak (Malaysian Coconut Rice)

Nasi lemak is Malaysia's national dish — fragrant coconut rice cooked with pandan, ringed by a spicy-sweet sambal, crisp fried anchovies, roasted peanuts, cucumber, and a boiled egg. Each element plays a role: creamy rice, fiery sambal, salty crunch, cooling cucumber. Traditionally wrapped in banana leaf and eaten for breakfast at roadside stalls, it's a whole plate of contrasts built around one bowl of rich, aromatic rice.

60 min620 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy💪High protein🌾Gluten-free

Dumpling Bake with Coconut Curry with frozen dumplings, coconut milk and red curry paste — USA recipe

🇺🇸USAMedium

Cereal and Pasta Dishes

Dumpling Bake with Coconut Curry

The dumpling bake is a modern American shortcut that earned its reputation honestly: a coconut and red curry sauce whisked straight into the baking dish, a bag of frozen dumplings set into it, foil on top, and half an hour later a pan of tender dumplings sitting in a silky, spoonable broth. Nothing is fried, nothing is folded, and the dumplings absorb the curry as they steam. Finished with chili crisp and coriander, it tastes far more deliberate than the effort it takes.

45 min520 kcal4 serves

🌶️Spicy

Mango Sticky Rice (Khao Niao Mamuang) with glutinous rice, coconut milk and ripe mangoes — Thailand recipe

🇹🇭ThailandAdvanced

Sweet Dishes

Mango Sticky Rice (Khao Niao Mamuang)

Khao niao mamuang pairs warm glutinous rice with sweet coconut milk, ripe mango and a lightly salted coconut sauce. The rice must be steamed, not boiled: the grains stay separate and chewy, then drink in the coconut mixture while they are still hot. Toasted split mung beans add the small crunch that keeps each spoonful from tasting flat.

300 min485 kcal4 serves

🌿Vegetarian🌾Gluten-free

Tom Kha Gai with chicken, coconut milk and galangal — Thailand recipe

🇹🇭ThailandMedium

Soups

Tom Kha Gai

Thailand's creamy coconut chicken soup: chicken poached in coconut milk infused with galangal, lemongrass, and kaffir lime leaf, then balanced with fish sauce and a squeeze of lime. It's the mellow, fragrant cousin of tom yum — rich rather than sharp — and its whole character comes from galangal, not ginger.

35 min320 kcal4 serves

🌾Gluten-free🌶️Spicy

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chicken garlic rice noodles chickpeas spinach tomatoes ginger rice rice flour turmeric pork belly fish sauce