Thai
Kluay Buat Chi (Bananas in Coconut Milk)
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Kluay Buat Chi (Bananas in Coconut Milk) is Thai home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the fresh side. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.
Ingredients
The quantities follow this count.
How to cook it
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Peel the bananas and halve lengthwise if large.
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Warm the coconut milk with the knotted pandan leaves, palm sugar and salt in a pot over medium heat until the sugar dissolves.
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Add the bananas and simmer gently until just tender and the sauce has thickened slightly, about 10 minutes.
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Discard the pandan leaves.
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Serve warm in bowls, a home sweet made from pantry ingredients.
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Serve it with
A Thai dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Kluay Buat Chi (Bananas in Coconut Milk), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.
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The dish at the centre
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The cooked vegetable
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Something to sip
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What it is eaten with
Safe at your table
Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Kluay Buat Chi (Bananas in Coconut Milk) carries coconut. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.
| Allergen | In this dish | Cook this instead |
|---|---|---|
| Peanuts | No | |
| Tree nuts | No | |
| Dairy | No | |
| Gluten | No | |
| Shellfish | No | |
| Eggs | No | |
| Soy | No | |
| Fish | No | |
| Sesame | No | |
| Coconut | Yes | Ajat (Cucumber Relish) |
These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.
What it brings to the plate
Estimated, per serving
- Calories
- 250 kcal
- Protein
- 2 g
- Carbs
- 32 g
- Fat
- 13 g
- Fiber
- 3 g
- Sugar
- 19 g
- Sodium
- 100 mg
- Saturated fat
- 12 g
Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.
When to cook it
Kluay Buat Chi (Bananas in Coconut Milk) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.
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