3 dishes people actually cook in Nauru: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.
What can you cook from Nauru? 3 traditional Nauru dishes, from Coconut crusted fish (35 min, the quickest) to Kokoda (130 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.
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White fish fillets dipped in egg, pressed into shredded coconut and breadcrumbs and pan-fried in coconut oil, served with lime and white rice.
Nauru's national dish: raw reef fish cured in lime juice until opaque, then dressed in thick coconut cream.
The Chinese-restaurant dish Nauru adopted: marinated chicken pieces fried crisp in a cornstarch coating, tossed in a glossy sweet-sour lemon sauce and served with rice.
Copper documents three dishes from Nauru: Coconut crusted fish, Kokoda and Lemon chicken. Two of the three are fried. One of the three needs an oven. Between them they use 25 different ingredients.
The three recipes need 25 ingredients between them, of which 1 is shared by more than one dish. White rice the hardest to find: of the 586 dishes in Copper's atlas, 21 use white rice. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.
Coconut crusted fish is the quickest at 35 minutes. Kokoda is the longest at 130 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 60 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.
Coconut crusted fish and Kokoda are rated easy — start there. The full method is on each recipe page, step by step, free to read.
Nauru is part of Pacific Island.
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