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Ducana

Name: Ducana
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Antigua and Barbuda
Ingredients: 2 Sweet potato; 80g Shredded Coconut; 100g All-purpose flour; 3 tbsp Sugar; 1/2 tsp Cinnamon powder; A pinch Nutmeg; A pinch Vanilla Extract; A pinch Salt; To taste Banana Leaves

Side Dish

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Sweet potato and coconut mixed, wrapped in banana leaves, and boiled — Antigua's sweet dumplings.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Ducana is a traditional dish of Antigua and Barbuda: grated sweet potato is mixed with coconut, flour, sugar, and spices, wrapped in banana leaves, and boiled. A gently sweet dumpling, it's classically eaten with sautéed salt cod. It's said to have African roots.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In an Antiguan kitchen, boiled banana-leaf parcels are opened and orange dumplings share a plate with sautéed salt cod.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Sweet potato 2
Shredded Coconut 80g
All-purpose flour 100g
Sugar 3 tbsp
Cinnamon powder 1/2 tsp
Nutmeg A pinch
Vanilla Extract A pinch
Salt A pinch
Banana Leaves To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Peel and grate the sweet potatoes.
Add the coconut, flour, sugar, spices, vanilla, and salt and mix.
Place 3 tbsp each on banana leaves, wrap, and tie with string.
Boil in plenty of water for 40 minutes.
Unwrap and serve with sautéed salt cod.

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