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Vakalolo

Name: Vakalolo
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Fiji
Ingredients: 500g Cassava (frozen); 200ml Coconut milk; 100g Brown sugar; 40g Shredded Coconut; A pinch Salt; 20g Butter

Dessert

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Grated cassava, coconut, and dark sugar mixed and baked — a chewy traditional Fijian sweet.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Vakalolo is a traditional Fijian sweet of grated cassava or taro mixed with coconut milk and sugar, wrapped in banana leaves, and steamed or baked. It's chewy with a gentle coconut sweetness. Sometimes steam-roasted together in the lovo (earth oven), it's loved as a dessert for celebration days.

🌆 Where it's eaten: After a church event, women open banana-leaf parcels and slice vakalolo baked dark with brown sugar to share with everyone.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Cassava (frozen) 500g
Coconut milk 200ml
Brown sugar 100g
Shredded Coconut 40g
Salt A pinch
Butter 20g

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Thaw the cassava, grate it, and squeeze out a little of the liquid.
Warm the dark sugar in 100ml coconut milk to dissolve.
Mix the cassava, sugared milk, desiccated coconut, and salt.
Pour into a buttered ovenproof dish and level the top.
Pour the remaining coconut milk over the top and bake at 180°C for 50–60 minutes until golden.
Cool and cut into pieces.

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