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Meal in a Pot

Also known as: Tuvalu meal in a pot

Tuvaluan breadfruit, germinating coconut, tuna and bele baked with coconut cream.

About Meal in a Pot

Kavapua Napoe’s Meal in a Pot is recorded in the Nanumanga section of a cookbook shared by Tuvaluan women community leaders. This version combines breadfruit, germinating coconut nuts, tuna and bele leaves with coconut cream.

Coconut cream brings the ingredients together, with breadfruit forming the bottom layer and tuna and greens arranged above it. The germinating coconut is retained as its own ingredient, distinct from the cream.

The layered meal bakes covered in a banana-leaf-lined pot. The cookbook also offers a coconut-basket vessel, while its separately named Nanumea-style recipe has a different ingredient arrangement.

Allergens in this recipe

Contains: Fish.

Other allergen details are unconfirmed.

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Ingredients in Meal in a Pot

Kavapua Napoe’s Nanumanga Meal in a Pot.

Ingredient details & uncertainties

Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.

  • Breadfruit: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
  • Germinating coconut nuts: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Exact ingredient160 and coconut context141/142; not generic tree-nut allergen inferred.
  • Coconut cream: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual161, full product formula unspecified; coconut not automatically listed tree-nut allergy.
  • Bele leaves: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual original leaf option162 retained rather than substitute greens.
  • Filleted tuna: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Fish source-confirmed. Literal tuna163 confirms Fish; exact species unprovided.
  • Banana leaves: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Explicit method166 lining, retained even though omitted from five-item ingredient table; not claimed eaten.

Origins & food traditions

Countries

  • Tuvalu
  • TuvaluCatalogue link pending review

Cuisines & regions

Sources & references
  1. Kavapua Napoe’s Nanumanga Meal in a Pot