Oceania
Recipes from Oceania: Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific islands.
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Grilled Barramundi with Coconut Milk, Marshall Islands Style
Learn how to make grilled barramundi with coconut milk, a Marshallese lagoon dish featuring juicy fish and a creamy sauce scented with lime.
Traditional Solomon Islands cassava pudding: the grated cassava cake with coconut milk baked in banana leaf
The dessert and snack of the Solomon Islands: grated cassava mixed with coconut milk, sugar and a little ripe banana, spread on a banana leaf and baked until…
Traditional te bua toro ni baukin: Kiribati pumpkin cooked in coconut cream with sugar and lime
The sweet-savory dish of the Kiribati islands: grated or cubed pumpkin slowly cooked in fresh coconut cream with a little sugar and lime zest, until it becomes…
Traditional Palau tinola: the chicken soup with ginger, green papaya and moringa leaves from the islands
The chicken broth Palau inherited from the Philippines and made its own: chicken cooked with lots of ginger, garlic and onion, with green papaya or chayote in…
Traditional laplap: Vanuatu's grated cassava pudding with chicken and coconut milk, baked in banana leaf
Vanuatu's national dish: cassava, yam or green banana grated into a mass, spread over banana leaves with pieces of chicken or meat, drizzled with coconut milk…
Traditional mumu: Papua New Guinea's pork, sweet potato and greens cooked in the earth oven with coconut milk
The feast of Papua New Guinea's highlands: pieces of pork, kaukau sweet potato, green banana, taro and pumpkin and aibika leaves, stacked between hot stones…
Traditional lu pulu: Tongan taro leaves with beef and onion in coconut cream, baked in the umu
Tonga's Sunday and feast dish: taro leaves (lu) filled with beef (pulu), onion, tomato and coconut cream, wrapped in banana leaf and slowly baked in the stone…
Traditional palusami: Samoan taro leaves filled with coconut cream and onion, baked in the umu
The most Samoan dish of all: young taro leaves wrapped into parcels with thick coconut cream, onion and a little salt, slowly cooked in the umu stone oven or…
Traditional kokoda: the Fijian ceviche of raw fish marinated in lime and coconut milk
Fiji's national dish: cubes of fresh white fish cured in lime juice, then folded into fresh coconut milk with tomato, onion, bell pepper and chili. Creamy…
Traditional pavlova: the New Zealand meringue, crisp outside and soft inside, with whipped cream and kiwi
The dessert New Zealand claims as its own: a large meringue baked at low temperature until it forms a crisp shell and a marshmallow center, topped at serving…
Traditional lamington: the Australian cake of cubes coated in chocolate icing and desiccated coconut
Australia's national sweet: squares of soft sponge cake dipped in a thin chocolate and milk icing and rolled in desiccated coconut, with or without a jam and…