What to cook with coconut

72 recipes in the Saucepan catalog use coconut. 28 of them are built around it. It turns up most in Sri Lankan, Brazilian and Colombian recipes.

recipes use it: 72
are built around it: 28
median total time: 48 min
ready in 30 minutes or less: 15

Recipes built around coconut

With coconut, in 30 minutes or less

What goes with coconut

Ingredients that most often share a recipe with coconut, out of 72 recipes.

Curry leaves15% of recipes
Coconut milk18% of recipes
Eggs31% of recipes
Chili18% of recipes
Cilantro19% of recipes
Mustard seed10% of recipes
Butter21% of recipes
Cinnamon17% of recipes

How much recipes use

Across 43 recipes that give an amount, the median is ½ cup. Half of them fall between ½ to 1 cup.

Where coconut shows up

Cuisines

Sri Lankan12
Brazilian7
Colombian6
Indian5

Courses

Dessert32
Breakfast13
Side10

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Counted from 5,756 public recipes, updated 2026-11-04. A recipe is built around an ingredient when it is in the title or among the first two lines of the ingredient list.