Palm Sugar and Ginger Coconut Cream Sauce

Name: Palm Sugar and Ginger Coconut Cream Sauce
Yield: Serves 8
Ingredients: 250 ml (8 fl oz) unsweetened coconut cream; 150 g (5 oz) coconut palm sugar, roughly chopped; 1 lump candied or stem ginger, finely chopped; 250 ml (8 fl oz) cream

Preparation info

Serves
8

Difficulty
Easy

Appears in

A World in My Kitchen

By Peter Gordon

Published 2003

About

I like to serve this drizzled over steamed paddings. This is the Pacific rim cousin of caramel sauce. You can make it up to 3 days in advance. Coconut palm sugar is sold at Asian food stores. If you can’t get any, use a sugar high in molasses such as demerara or molasses sugar.

Ingredients

150 g (5 oz) coconut palm sugar, roughly chopped
250 ml (

Dessert
Vegetarian
Gluten-free

Method

Place palm sugar and coconut cream in a pan and heat gently until the sugar has melted into the cream. Boil for 1 minute then add ginger and cream, bring back to the boil and simmer for 2 minutes.