What to cook with coconut milk
217 recipes in the Saucepan catalog use coconut milk. 45 of them are built around it. It turns up most in Thai, Indonesian and Sri Lankan recipes.
- recipes use it
- 217
- are built around it
- 45
- median total time
- 45 min
- ready in 30 minutes or less
- 40
Recipes built around coconut milk
Thai Mango Sticky RiceThai
Haupia (Hawaiian Coconut Pudding)Hawaiian · 1 hr 45 min
Traditional Kiribath (Sri Lankan Milk Rice)Sri Lankan · 27 min
Colombian Coconut Rice (Arroz Con Coco)Colombian · 30 min
Tembleque (Puerto Rican Coconut Pudding)Puerto Rican · 13 min
Halayang Ube (Purple Yam Jam)Filipino · 1 hr 10 min
KleponIndonesian
Baked Nian GaoChinese · 40 min
Rainbow Kueh LapisSingaporean · 1 hr 20 min
Mango Sticky RiceThai
Thai Massaman CurryThai
TemblequePuerto Rican
With coconut milk, in 30 minutes or less
What goes with coconut milk
Ingredients that most often share a recipe with coconut milk, out of 217 recipes.
- Lemongrass17% of recipes
- Garlic51% of recipes
- Turmeric26% of recipes
- Ginger27% of recipes
- Shallot18% of recipes
- Coriander24% of recipes
- Coconut oil12% of recipes
- Galangal9% of recipes
How much recipes use
Across 95 recipes that give an amount, the median is 1 cup. Half of them fall between ½ to 1½ cups.
Where coconut milk shows up
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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.