Coconut Milk/Coconut Cream/Creamed Coconut

[NotQuiteCockney]

Basically, what are each of these for? I keep using coconut milk to try to make a sauce, and it ends up runny. I used creamed coconut to make a sauce, and it ended up greasy and a bit too coconutty, so to speak.

So what is each for?

[morningpaper]

What kind of recipe are you trying to follow?!?!

Coconut milk is usually used in curries to make them creamy.

[NotQuiteCockney]

If it's a recipe, I'm fine, I just put in the one they say. It's more of a problem when I'm just putting something together, if you know what I mean.

Whenever I cook with coconut milk, it ends up wattery. Oh, except when I use it to make satay sauce, that works fine.

[chipmonkey]

i just add cornflour if its watery

[Pinotmum]

I buy Bart's coconut cream (blue carton) and it gives a nice thick creamy sauce. I used coconut milk on sunday and it's too watery for the recipe I was trying so tonight I used Coconut Cream and it was lovely.