Food

Food for gay men: Coconut and Coriander Salad

Fresh, tasty, and super-versatile.

01 Sep 2025 • 3 min read

This is a simple salad mix that you can adapt to whatever you're feeling like and the dietary requirements of whomever you're feeding.

Your base for this salad is a red bell pepper (capsicum) and a red onion.
Finely slice the pepper and the onion and roast in the oven with some olive oil.
Once the pepper and onion are cooked, add in a tin of coconut cream and allow that to cook through in the oven.
Remove the cooked pepper and onion from the coconut cream.
[Don't discard the coconut cream - you can use a bit of that to add some sauce to your salad and you can use the remainder when you're making a curry]
Put the pepper and onion in a bowl, add in your protein of choice, stir through a handful of fresh coriander, and top with toasted coconut.

For a balanced meal, you need some carbohydrates to go with this salad.
I generally serve it with turmeric rice because it gives you a bold colour and an earthy flavour.

You can use pretty much whatever protein you want with this salad to make it a balanced meal from a dietary perspective.
If I'm serving meat-eaters, I'll generally oven roast some chicken thighs (flavoured with whatever you like - such as a curry-powder rub). I'll then shred the cooked chicken into the salad.
If I'm serving vegans, I'll generally go with tempeh. Slice the tempeh into strips, flavour with whatever takes your fancy (something sticky that's going to coat the tempeh is a good idea), fry or bake the tempeh, and then add into the salad.

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