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Coconut Rice

By Leela Punyaratabandhu

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Photo of Thai coconut rice recipe with papaya salad sweet shredded beef and chicken curry.
Photo by David Loftus

This coconut rice recipe appears in Leela Punyaratabandhu’s cookbook, Bangkok, as part of a meal that includes green papaya salad and chicken red curry. “The coconut rice,” Punyaratabandhu writes, “is the center of the meal.” She traces the combination back to the early 20th century or even earlier. “It was my grandparents’ favorite family meal when they were young, and that love has been passed down to their children and grandchildren.”

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