Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 4 hours ago

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Get the recipe for Thai-Style Coconut and Chicken Soup here: bit.ly/4gYfikk

In Bangkok, chef Piched Kaewhem taught our editorial director J.M. to make a vibrant tom kha gai, chicken soup with a fresh coconut broth layered with lime, fish sauce, sugar, lemon grass, and ginger-adjacent galangal. No storebought coconut milk came close to the freshness of that broth, so we figured out a workaround—homemade coconut milk, pressed from dried coconut flakes. That one extra step yields one of the best broths we’ve developed at Milk Street (in our opinion!)

Our culinary production director Wes Martin brings you the recipe.

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0:00 How to make coconut broth (and thai style coconut and chicken soup)
0:13 How to make coconut milk
1:20 What should I use the leftover coconut flesh from making coconut milk for?
1:30 How to build a thai coconut and chicken soup
3:09 How to finish soup with a little acid