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🇰🇮 Traditional dishes from Kiribati

1 dishes people actually cook in Kiribati: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.

What can you cook from Kiribati? 1 traditional Kiribati dish, from Palu sami (100 min, the quickest) to Palu sami (100 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.

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Palu sami

1 hour and 40 minutes · medium · 5 ingredients

Palu sami, a traditional dish from Kiribati

Young taro leaves folded around thick coconut cream and baked in parcels until the leaves turn silky.

  • 24 young taro leaves
  • 500 ml thick coconut cream
  • 1 onion
  • 4 banana leaves
  • 1 tsp salt

What do people eat in Kiribati?

Copper documents one dish from Kiribati: Palu sami. Banana leaves and onion each appear in more than one recipe. All one are baked. All one need an oven. Between them they use 5 different ingredients.

What ingredients do you need for cooking from Kiribati?

The one recipes need 5 ingredients between them, of which 4 are shared by more than one dish. Banana leaves and thick coconut cream the hardest to find: of the 586 dishes in Copper's atlas, 23 use banana leaves and 1 use thick coconut cream. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.

How long do recipes from Kiribati take?

Palu sami is the quickest at 100 minutes. The median is 100 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.

Which dish from Kiribati is easiest to make at home?

None of the dishes from Kiribati here is rated easy, but every one has the full method written out step by step, free to read. Palu sami is the shortest way in.

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