Palusami Kiribati

Taro leaves baked with coconut cream.

Ingredients

• 600 g Taro leaves
• 2½ cups Coconut cream
• 2 Onion
• 6 Banana leaves
• 2 tsp Salt

Method

1. Prepare the leaves — Wash and strip the tough stems from the taro leaves.
2. Form cups — Stack several leaves to make a cup in your hand.
3. Fill — Pour in the coconut cream with chopped onion and salt.
4. Wrap — Fold the leaves closed and wrap in banana leaf, tying securely.
5. Bake — Cook 90 minutes in an earth oven or at 180°C — taro leaves must be fully cooked or they irritate the throat.
6. Palusami is ready — Unwrap and eat leaves and filling together.

More Kiribati recipes

• Coconut Fish Salad
• Te Bua Toro Ni Baukin