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 Yapese Taro with Coconut Cream

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Yapese Taro with Coconut Cream

Side Dish
⏱ 50 min
👥 Serves 4
Difficulty ⭐

Boiled taro topped with thick coconut cream — Yap's traditional staple.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

On Yap, taro grown in swamp gardens is the traditional staple, carefully tended by women. Boiled taro is topped with thick cream squeezed from grated coconut. It's an age-old meal on the island known for its stone money.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a house beside a swamp taro garden on Yap, boiled taro is laid out on leaves and drizzled with white coconut cream.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

👩‍🍳 Instructions

  1. Peel the taro.

  2. Boil in salted water for 15 minutes until tender.

  3. Warm the coconut cream in a small pot and add a little salt.

  4. Place the taro in a dish.

  5. Pour over the coconut cream to serve.

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