Coconut Ice Cream (I Tim Kati)

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A Thai street dessert — coconut milk churned to a creamy, dense ice cream, served in a hollowed half-coconut shell or cone, with toppings of roasted peanuts, sweet corn, taro, and sticky rice. Thai coconut ice cream's distinction from Western coconut-flavoured ice cream is in its simplicity and its fat source: the cream used is coconut cream and milk without dairy, and the result has a lightness and a clean coconut flavour — uncluttered by the dairy fat that makes Western ice cream rich. Thompson identifies it in Thai Street Food as the preparation that most completely captures the Thai street food philosophy: a single, pure ingredient expressed through correct technique.

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