DISH RESEARCH · Main dish
Tuna and taro patties
Also known as: Tuvalu tuna and taro patties
Tuvaluan taro and tuna patties with ginger, green onion and a breadcrumb coating.
About Tuna and taro patties
Tuna and taro patties are presented as a Tuvalu dish in the Pacific Community's collection of island cooking traditions. This rendition combines mashed taro and tuna with ginger, green onion and lemon juice.
Taro gives the patties their soft, starchy centre, with tuna providing the savoury fish character. Ginger and lemon add aromatic brightness to the filling.
A golden breadcrumb coating surrounds the rounded patties. Salad is an offered accompaniment, while precooked carrots, onion or taro leaves are suggested additions to the mixture.
Allergens in this recipe
Contains: Fish, Egg, Wheat.
Other allergen details are unconfirmed.
Ingredients vary by restaurant. Confirm your allergens with staff before ordering.
Ingredients in Tuna and taro patties
Pacific Community's Tuvalu tuna-and-taro patties.
- TaroBase
- Canned tuna in salt waterProtein
- Grated gingerAromatic
- Green onionAromatic
- Lemon juiceSeasoning
- EggBinder
- BreadcrumbsBinder
- SaltSeasoning
- Pepper, unspecifiedSeasoningIngredient page not linked
- Cooking oil, unspecifiedCooking medium
- WaterLiquid
- CornstarchBinder · Optional
- Precooked carrotsBase · Optional
- Precooked onionBase · Optional
- Precooked taro leavesBase · Optional
- Salad, composition unspecifiedAccompaniment · OptionalIngredient page not linked
Ingredient details & uncertainties
Allergen information is incomplete. Unconfirmed details do not establish that an allergen is absent.
- Taro: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Canned tuna in salt water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Fish source-confirmed. Actual first can tuna in saltwater over fresh cooked shredded alternative; product full brine/tuna formulation and species unprovided.
- Grated ginger: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Green onion: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Lemon juice: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Egg: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Egg source-confirmed. Actual egg dip.
- Breadcrumbs: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Wheat source-confirmed. Actual coating, standard bread Wheat positive; full upstream formula unprovided.
- Salt: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed
- Pepper, unspecified: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual unqualified pepper, form/colour not invented.
- Cooking oil, unspecified: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual small amount of cooking oil, source plant/animal identity unqualified.
- Water: Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual first method literal taro cooking water.
- Cornstarch (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual conditional sticky-mixture addition, retained optional.
- Precooked carrots (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual top note named optional same-mixture addition, upstream precooking medium not supplied.
- Precooked onion (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual top note.
- Precooked taro leaves (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual top note explicitly offered, no whole different tuber branch union.
- Salad, composition unspecified (optional): Recipe-specific ingredient evidence; Allergen details unconfirmed. Actual first offered end service over sauteed-vegetable alternative; parent optional, no own salad formula.
Origins & food traditions
Countries
- Tuvalu
- TuvaluCatalogue link pending review
Cuisines & regions
- Tuvaluan Cuisine
- Tuvaluan CuisineCatalogue link pending review