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Tuvaluan Cuisine

↳ from Funafuti, Tuvalu

One of the smallest nations: fish, coconut and pulaka (giant swamp taro) grown in pits dug in the coral.

must try ↓

Specialties

  • Pulaka
  • Fekei

History

The atolls have poor soil, so people dug deep pits and filled them with compost to grow pulaka.

Ingredients

  • Pulaka
  • Fish
  • Coconut
  • Breadfruit
  • Pandanus

How it's made

  1. Dig a pit and fill with compost
  2. Grow and harvest pulaka
  3. Boil or bake
  4. Serve with fish and coconut cream
to drink

What Tuvalu drinks

Toddy, coconut water

Ratings & notes

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