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Pia sua

Also known as: Tuvalu coconut dessert

Tatava Isaia contributes this Funafuti pia sua to the Tuvaluan women’s cookbook Tapa Aka Tou Alo.

About Pia sua

Tatava Isaia contributes this Funafuti pia sua to the Tuvaluan women’s cookbook Tapa Aka Tou Alo. The English recipe calls it Coconut Dessert and pairs coconut cream with prepared vaatia starch.

The cream is heated and thickened with the starch until the mixture pulls away from the pot. Sugar is an optional ingredient in the English list, preserving the choice offered in this particular recipe.

The dessert is left to cool before serving. Its short ingredient list and starch-thickened coconut base remain distinct from the cookbook’s other coconut sweets and from the separate process for extracting vaatia starch.

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Ingredients in Pia sua

Tatava Isaia’s Funafuti pia sua.

Ingredient details & uncertainties

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

  • Coconut cream: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual English495; product formula unprovided, no Milk or tree-nut classification inferred.
  • Prepared vaatia starch: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual496/516. Named Tuvaluan prepared starch; reference92 shows extraction from vaatia tubers, not proof of a precise botanical species or interchangeable commercial arrowroot.
  • Sugar (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual English497 explicitly optional despite method combining sugar; retain optionality.

Origins & food traditions

Tuvalu association in the attributed source; no exclusive invention claim.

Countries

  • Tuvalu
  • TuvaluCatalogue link pending review

Cuisines & regions

Sources & references
  1. Tatava Isaia’s Funafuti pia sua