Chefs... What can I replace coconut milk with in a curry?

[Tricky Dicky]

Should we have an "Ask the Chef" forum on the board now?

After all, FDM is looking for a new role with the club!

Would be a lot more interesting than some of the other rubbish posted on here !

 

[clapham_gull]

If it's Thai

I wouldn't try and substitute the coconut milk with anything, because nothing else will work.

What I would do is make it more like a stir fried Thai dish.

So use exactly the same ingrediants but make a sauce by adding a little water, Oyster sauce and a generous slurp of Fish Sauce.

If it's Indian, simply don't add it.

Personally to make an Indian type "gravy", I would slowly fry equal quantities of tomato and onion, with some garlic and ginger in a little oil.

When really cooked through, liquidise it adding water ( or preferably some chicken stock made up from a cube).

This will make a nice sauce for a ruby.

On the curried fish front, I think the mistake they make in the curry houses is to simply substitute meat with fish. I was never sold on curried fish until I had some at an Indian wedding.

Basically, fish cooked in spicy batter which you dipped in a selection of sauces.

 

[Tricky Dicky]

Oh, and if you want that authentic indian Tandoori taste, I have just found this ...

http://www.spicesofindia.co.uk/acatalog/Tandoor-Oven.html

 

[macky]

condensed and evaperated milk
seems sweet to me but it s from the horses wouth

 

[defrocked priest]

Fully agree, you can't substitute coconut milk in a curry because all the other spices really masked the coconut taste. However, if your hard pressed and to fickle to adapt then heavy cream will do.

 

[Grassman]

Evaporated milk in a curry? You are f*cking joking. Evaporated milk is only good for bannoffi pie (a Sussex invention, of course) or being poured over a tin of fruit cocktail! Reminds me of my childhood that!

 

[Vankleek Hill Seagull]

Evaporated milk in a curry? You are f*cking joking. Evaporated milk is only good for bannoffi pie (a Sussex invention, of course) or being poured over a tin of fruit cocktail! Reminds me of my childhood that!

Correction: Banoffee Pie uses condensed milk, not evaporated.

Banoffi (Banoffee) Pie Recipe - The Hungry Monk Restaurant - Jevington, Near Eastbourne and Brighton, Sussex, England T: 01323 482178

 

[dougdeep]

Rice milk of course. Available in all good shops.

 

[macky]

Evaporated milk in a curry? You are f*cking joking. Evaporated milk is only good for bannoffi pie (a Sussex invention, of course) or being poured over a tin of fruit cocktail! Reminds me of my childhood that!

well i was told by a thai ??
you probably know more ?

 

[Lord Bracknell]

You could have said sailors - you make it sound like a bodily fluid discharge!

HCQ

A curry without cumin is missing a VITAL ingredient.

 

[John Byrnes Mullet]

when you are in Thailand they used condensed milk, the thick blobby sort
of stuff. If you are in posh hotels you have coconut milk but the Thai's prefer the condensed stuff.

 

['sladegull]

If I over do the chilli I use low fat yougurt to calm it down but have also used low fat fromage frais when I ran out which worked well.....

 

[Crispy Ambulance]

A large dollop of horseradish sauce works a treat, particularly with a homemade Madras. Gives it a nice, creamy texture.

 

[Billy the Fish]

The coconut milk isn't what gives thai curries their taste anyway - it comes from the paste, sugar and fish sauce.

 

[macky]

when you are in Thailand they used condensed milk, the thick blobby sort
of stuff. If you are in posh hotels you have coconut milk but the Thai's prefer the condensed stuff.

exactly people over here think they are eating thai when in fact its nowhere near it
i just had taro and red oinion for desert