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Papuan Kaukau Chips

Name: Papuan Kaukau Chips
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Papua New Guinea
Ingredients: 2 Sweet potato; To taste Oil for frying; 1/2 tsp Salt; To taste Chili sauce

Snack

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Sweet potato cut into sticks and fried — a market snack in Papua New Guinea.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Sweet potato (kaukau), Papua New Guinea's staple, is also fried as a snack. At markets and roadside stalls, sweet potato sticks fried and salted are sold alongside sausages and fried fish. They're a familiar, easy snack.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a roadside stall in a Papua New Guinea town, fresh fried sweet potato is piled in a basket, salted, and put in paper bags.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Sweet potato 2
Oil for frying To taste
Salt 1/2 tsp
Chili sauce To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the sweet potatoes with the skin on into 1cm sticks.
Soak in water for 10 minutes and pat thoroughly dry.
Fry in 160°C oil for 4 minutes and remove.
Raise to 180°C and fry again for 2 minutes until crisp.
Salt and serve with chili sauce.

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