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Why's coconut milk used to base curries?

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If you Google, you can see that many recipes use coconut milk as the "soup" base for curries. Why coconut milk though? I would've never dreamed of this mix! I would've guessed vegetable or some meat consommé as the base for curry.

Canadian Living: Fish & Seafood (2016). p 137.

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Peter Taylor‭ wrote almost 4 years ago

I think the word "sauce" would be better than "soup".

Peter Taylor‭ wrote almost 4 years ago

Insufficient research to make a substantial answer, but (a) many curries do in fact use tomato as the base. Obviously any curries which predate the arrival of the tomato in Asia will have some other base; coconuts originated in India and south-east Asia. (b) They would also almost certainly have been much cheaper than meat. (c) I wouldn't discard the possible relevance of vegetarian religions/philosophies (particularly Buddhism) in the relevant parts of Asia.