Coconut Cream: Uses? Ideas?

[Shel_B]

I got lots of coconut cream when I made coconut milk recently. More cream than I wanted from making the milk. Any suggestions on how I can use it? Can coconut cream replace regular cream in some dishes? I was thinking of using it in a panna cotta recipe.

[SylviaLovegren]

Yes, it's good in place of cow cream. Makes delicious rice pudding. Use to make Brazilian shrimp. Make Puerto Rican "eggnog" called coquito. Yummy stuff. And then there's always pina colada...

[annachan]

It's good in tapioca pudding.

[MikeHartnett]

Thai curry.

[Pam R]

You can try whipping it. I don't know what the fat content would be in homemade coconut cream but I had to come up with a bunch of non-dairy (parve) desserts last year and I layered whopped coconut cream with chocolate mousse for one of them. It was much lighter than dairy whipped cream and the flavour what great combined with the chocolate.

[cdh]

A little googling led to this fascinating page. Quick summary: no good for ganache... use it in curries. Use the coconut milk for the ganache.http://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/11793/could-coconut-cream-be-used-to-create-a-non-dairy-ganache-for-whipping

Edited December 7, 2013 by cdh (log)

[HungryC]

Try using a little in a salad dressing...nice flavor and texture.

[Shel_B]

You can try whipping it. I don't know what the fat content would be in homemade coconut cream but I had to come up with a bunch of non-dairy (parve) desserts last year and I layered whopped coconut cream with chocolate mousse for one of them. It was much lighter than dairy whipped cream and the flavour what great combined with the chocolate.

Yes, I'm thinking of it in desserts, in lieu of cream. Might work out well. Am definitely going to try making some "whopped" cream <LOL>

[Shel_B]

Try using a little in a salad dressing...nice flavor and texture.

Hmmm ... something to ponder, mating a salad with coconut cream dressing.

[HungryC]

I'm reading Mollie Katzen's newish Heart of the Plate, and she uses a coconut dressing on a roasted eggplant salad. Here's the recipe on her website: http://www.molliekatzen.com/recipes/recipe.php?id=1013

[Shel_B]

I'm reading Mollie Katzen's newish Heart of the Plate, and she uses a coconut dressing on a roasted eggplant salad. Here's the recipe on her website: http://www.molliekatzen.com/recipes/recipe.php?id=1013

Thanks!