COPPERSlippery cabbage in coconut milk recipe
Leaves of aibika, the Solomon Islands slippery cabbage, cooked for a few minutes in freshly squeezed coconut milk until they turn soft and silky.
Ingredients
- 1 bunch slippery cabbage (aibika)
- 500 ml coconut milk
- 1 onion
- 2 tomatoes
- 3 spring onions
- 2 small red chillies
- 1 tbsp ginger
- 1 tsp salt
How to make Slippery cabbage in coconut milk
- Grate the flesh of 2 mature dry coconuts, add 250 ml of warm water and squeeze hard by hand to get about 500 ml of coconut milk; strain it.
- Pinch the leaves of 1 bunch (about 500 g) of slippery cabbage off the stalks, wash them and cut them just twice.
- Bring the coconut milk to a boil in a pot with 1 chopped onion and 1 tbsp of grated ginger.
- Add the cabbage and cook for about 3 minutes, until half done.
- Add 2 crushed small red chillies, 2 sliced tomatoes and 3 chopped spring onions, then simmer for 5 minutes until the leaves are soft and slippery.
- Salt to taste and serve hot with boiled cassava, sweet potato, taro or rice.
- In villages it is cooked without a stove: stones heated in the fire for 20 to 35 minutes are dropped into the pot of cabbage and coconut milk, which is then covered for 3 to 15 minutes.
What is Slippery cabbage in coconut milk?
Slippery cabbage in coconut milk is a traditional dish from Solomon Islands, simmered in one pot, and takes about 35 minutes from start to finish. It is built around coconut milk. The recipe below uses 8 ingredients and is written out step by step.
How long does Slippery cabbage in coconut milk take?
At 35 minutes it is quicker than 92% of the 586 dishes in Copper's atlas. Copper's atlas has 36 dishes built on coconut milk. The method runs to 7 steps, the longest being 35 minutes.
Any tips for making Slippery cabbage in coconut milk?
Squeeze the milk from freshly grated coconut and cook the leaves only a few minutes in it, until they turn soft and slippery.
How Slippery cabbage in coconut milk compares
Small red chillies appears in no other dish in the atlas.
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