Coconut Milk

This traditional South American honey-almond cookie gets a tropical twist with an easy-bake coconut dulce de leche filling.

It’s a humble combination of two everyday ingredients, but Kiribath has enormous significance in Sri Lanka—it’s cooked by the Sinhalese to mark the new year in April, and on other special occasions that celebrate new beginnings.

This smoothie is a fresh take on a Creamsicle—the secret ingredient is persimmon, which provides sweetness and creaminess while letting the mango flavor shine through.

This dish is made with an Indonesian chili paste for a deep, comforting, and rich curry.

Made of chiles, garlic, basil, shallots, lemongrass, and ginger—green curry paste packs amazing flavor.

This recipe picks up speed by calling for (slightly) wet greens. The water that clings to the leaves will help the greens cook; the fact that you don’t have to haul out the salad spinner is a time-saving bonus.

A light, fragrant and utterly delicious south-Indian-style curry, packed with juicy prawns and tempered with coconut milk.

For this vegetarian dinner, we roast thick wedges of cabbage, carrots, and tofu in a spiced coconut milk sauce until they're wonderfully softened and caramelized.

Pairing earthy, hardy leafy greens with cooling coconut milk, a hot chile, and spices gives this side dish a full range of bitter, sweet, and tingling flavors.

Coconut milk and curry powder lend comforting warmth and spice to this simple vegetarian dinner.

No searing, no chopping, one baking dish.

When you have more eggplant and squash than you know what to do with, turn to this quick curry.

Turmeric, chiles, and chewy-nutty cooked grains balance the sweetness of fresh corn in this loose vegan riff on creamed corn.

This chilled rice pudding pie is adapted from the popular dessert at MeMe’s Diner in Brooklyn, NY.

This curry is redolent with big spices like star anise and garam masala—you’ll be thrilled by how well they play against the sweet meatiness of the carrots.

This recipe is exceptionally weeknight-friendly (it goes from start to finish in less than an hour) and fully adaptable depending on the tastes of your family.

This hearty vegetarian stew comes together in under 30 minutes.

Meet your new favorite, cold-weather one-pan salmon dinner. It’s warm and creamy with coconut milk and just spicy enough with green curry paste, ginger, and garlic.

This velvety lentil stew, brightened with shredded apple and fresh ginger, is the antidote to holiday excess.

This super-easy recipe is a perfect canvas for punchy, crunchy toppers like toasted coconut and mustard seeds with turmeric oil and a zingy chutney. The dal is vegan but full of hearty protein thanks to the chickpeas, lentils, and coconut milk.