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Jekaro

Name: Jekaro
Total time: 10 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Marshall Islands
Ingredients: 500ml Coconut water; 2 tbsp Palm sugar; 1 tsp Lime juice; To taste Ice

Dessert

⏱ 10 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

A sweet drink made from coconut palm blossom sap — a Marshall Islands tradition.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Jekaro is the sap collected by cutting coconut palm flower stalks. In the Marshall Islands it's drunk fresh as a sweet drink or boiled down into syrup. It's a traditional gift of the islands, gathered by climbing the palms every morning. This version recreates it with coconut water and palm sugar.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On an atoll morning in the Marshall Islands, a man climbs a palm to gather sap and hands it out to children in coconut-shell cups.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Coconut water 500ml
Palm sugar 2 tbsp
Lime juice 1 tsp
Ice To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Finely shave the palm sugar.
Add to the coconut water and dissolve well.
Add the lime juice.
Chill in the fridge.
Pour into glasses with ice.

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