Coconut Milk

This fragrant coconut milk-based curry from chef Asha Gomez of Atlanta's Cardamom Hill delivers big flavor to this beef stew with very little work. "It's a complete meal, a one-dish wonder," Gomez says.

This delicious, silken ice cream isn’t meant to be super sweet, according to chef Andrea Reusing. It’s more about a fun way to taste corn. Using coconut milk in the base means there’s no need to make a custard.

This versatile coconut curry recipe is incredibly easy to make vegetarian (using vegetable stock, omitting the chicken, not using fish sauce, etc.).

This shrimp roti recipe is easy enough for a weeknight, thanks to store-bought curry powder.

If you think pumpkin is bland, this shrimp curry recipe exists to prove you wrong. Deliciously, happily, bowl-lickingly wrong.

This grilled mahi-mahi recipe is spicy and sweet, thanks to chiles, ginger, and creamy coconut milk.

Expedite the cooking process by using red curry paste and store-bought peanut butter.

Unlike most braises, these ribs aren't browned before they're simmered. The long, slow simmer tenderizes the meat, and the ribs get their brown, shiny exterior from a soy and brown sugar marinade.