DISH RESEARCH · Side dish
Taro with Coconut Cream
Grated taro baked in a banana-leaf parcel and mashed with coconut cream.
About Taro with Coconut Cream
Tumu Toma's suasua taro is a Nui preparation from Tuvalu. Grated taro is baked in a green banana-leaf parcel, then unwrapped and combined with coconut cream.
Coconut cream gives the taro a rich, mellow flavour. The recipe also offers local coconut toddy syrup as an optional sweetener.
The cooked taro is mashed into a thick pulp and thoroughly combined with the cream. The leaf encloses the taro during baking and is removed before the final mixture is presented.
Allergens in this recipe
Allergen details are not yet confirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Taro with Coconut Cream
Tumu Toma's Nui suasua taro with coconut cream.
- Grated taroBase
- Coconut creamLiquid
- Green banana leafCooking medium
- Coconut toddy syrupSweetener · Optional
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Grated taro: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Broader taro candidate; source grated form retained, exact variety unspecified.
- Coconut cream: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Green banana leaf: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Required first food-contact wrapper. Alternative oiled aluminium foil is not selected, so its oil is not added.
- Coconut toddy syrup (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Book typical-ingredient section identifies local toddy as sweet coconut-tree-sap syrup. Broader coconut-sap candidate; exact preparation/boiling or fermentation state unprovided here, no alcoholic toddy inferred. Listed optional, but method does not allocate its addition.
Origins & food traditions
A Nui community recipe supplied by Tumu Toma for the Tuvalu local-women cookbook Tapa aka tou alo.
Countries
- Tuvalu
- TuvaluCatalogue link pending review
- Marshall IslandsCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Nui / Tuvaluan Cuisine
- Tuvaluan CuisineCatalogue link pending review
- Marshallese CuisineCatalogue link pending review