2 dishes people actually cook in Vanuatu: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.
What can you cook from Vanuatu? 2 traditional Vanuatu dishes, from Tuna kokoda (190 min, the quickest) to Laplap (210 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.
Vanuatu on the map. Drag to spin the planet.
Vanuatu's national dish: grated taro paste soaked in coconut cream, wrapped in banana leaves and cooked on hot stones in an earth oven.
Raw tuna cured firm in lime juice for hours, drained, then bathed in coconut cream with onion, tomato and chilli.
Copper documents two dishes from Vanuatu: Laplap and Tuna kokoda. One of the two are baked. One of the two needs an oven. Between them they use 11 different ingredients.
The two recipes need 11 ingredients between them, of which 1 is shared by more than one dish. Coconut cream the hardest to find: of the 586 dishes in Copper's atlas, 22 use coconut cream. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.
Tuna kokoda is the quickest at 190 minutes. Laplap is the longest at 210 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 210 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.
Tuna kokoda is rated easy — start there. The full method is on its recipe page, step by step, free to read.
Vanuatu is part of Pacific Island.
Countries close to Vanuatu on the globe — and close on the plate.
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