[Closed] Substitutes for coconut milk in Thai cooking?

How much do you need?

Coconuts contain it.

Coconuts are available.

soy, oat, or almond milk, normal milk with a bit of flour to thicken, greek yoghurt

Creamed coconut plus water

Buy a few bounties, nibble the chocolate off and blend them up. Voila.

Look in the non dairy milk section, you can probably get coconut based milk substitute. It's nothing like coconut milk, but it would add the flavour and if you use some extra oil you'd probably get the richness as well.

Alternatively, any non dairy cream would work well but you wouldn't get the coconut taste.

Thanks for the input folks.
I'll try Greek Yoghurt today as I have that in the fridge and I'll work through the other choices short of buying coconuts. Not really into smashing and scraping them.

Got the cubes from these folks. Good prices and a very rapid delivery using Royal Mail. I'll be using them more once this is over.

https://www.thai-food-online.co.uk/products/thai-tom-yum-broth-cubes-knorr

Creamed coconut plus water

This.

Look at your world foods bit at local sains, there's always cheaper coconut milk/cream block in there, that some folk avoid cos it's a 'cheap' foreign brand.

If they've run out of honey badgers at the zoo maybe try milking the neighbours' cats.

Greek Coconut yoghurt from Aldi..

try milking the neighbours’ cats.

Or scrape the sudocrem off its fur!

Greek Coconut yoghurt from Aldi.

I want that, sounds great.

Coconut milk in cans has a high fat and satfat content - which is what makes it taste nice.
Yoghurt might do it, but a (un)healthy dollop of additional fat e.g. butter may also be necessary.

Desiccated coconut blended up with soy, oat, or almond milk. Did that the other day and it worked a treat.

Greek Coconut yoghurt from Aldi/LIDL.

I want that, sounds great.

It's great, but sweet.

Where do you live - I know I'm in Brixton but even the small supermarkets here have coconut milk. As does Lidl.

Living just outside Didcot.
I've tried all the local stores over the next couple of days. Waitrose in Wallingford may have some tomorrow but I doubt if I can be arsed to cycle over if its raining.

I’d seek out local Asian/Indian supermarkets or corner shops. Ours have coconut milk or creamed coconut as standard. Sometimes coconut milk powder too, though be warned it does contain milk solids (I nearly fed it to vegan Amanda - oops).

This is Didcot mate. We don't have any of that.
There again I could combine a Sunday morning exercise ride to Oxford with a bit of shopping in the Cowley Road.
Not been to Oxford since January...

There again I could combine a Sunday morning exercise ride to Oxford with a bit of shopping in the Cowley Road

You'd be better off going to Lung-Wah Chong Chinese / Asian supermarket on Hythe Bridge Street.

luckily tom yum soup doesnt contain coconut milk so you are sorted 😉

tom yum Kha does but i dont see the point really as normal tom yum is yummy enough.

A seafood tom yum is my fave. with a spicy som tam salad and pad thai to follow.. nomnomnom

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I have now just found out Tom Yum cubes exist. I am a lot happier than I was five minutes ago.

i used to work opposite a thai food emporium. lunch was good.

then i moved jobs and lunch quality has deteriorated badly.

mama tom yum noodles are the instant food stuff of the gods. nutritionally about as useful as eating cardboard but - oh my gosh - so darn tasty... you just cant beat the MSG

Morrisons, "world food" section 50p a tin or 10 metres away in normal section twice the price.

Aldi/Lidl or home bargains all stock it.

luckily tom yum soup doesnt contain coconut milk so you are sorted 😉

I'm sure that's correct but i've had it with coconut milk as well and I'm also trying to replicate an Asian Seafood Broth I used to eat at The George on Weymouth Quay and that had coconut milk in there.
Nothing that will stop me trying it without though.
Thanks for all the tips. I'm going to risk Aldi tomorrow and see what I can find.

Holland & Barret are full of the stuff. Lidl have flour now.....

Aldi's has a higher coconut content than any other brand I've seen anywhere so try there.

Asian seafood broth wouldn't happen to be Laksa would it? Now thinking of that is making me hungry...

Just use cream, single or double, tastes lush.

Plenty available online, just Google and take your pick. We got ours from Sous Chef

Found some today at both Aldi and Tesco. Also found the local Polish store will get some for me. Which is nice but the main thing I want from them is sausage for my hasselbacked kielbasa.
And more beers.

I read somewhere that you could use coconut milk/cream in place of buttermilk for various recipes, so at a guess buttermilk or even full-fat yoghurt would be a start (I'd add butter or double cream) Wouldn't have that sweetness or indeed particularly cocunutty taste. P'raps that's where half a bounty with the chocolate nibbled off would come in handy.