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Kapisi Pulu

Name: Kapisi Pulu
Total time: 20 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Tonga
Ingredients: 1/4 Cabbage; 1 can Corned beef; 1 Onion; 150ml Coconut cream; A pinch Salt; A pinch Black Pepper

Side Dish

⏱ 20 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Cabbage and corned beef simmered with onion and coconut cream — Tongan home cooking.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Kapisi pulu means 'cabbage and beef,' a Tongan home dish of canned corned beef, cabbage, and onion fried and simmered in coconut cream. Corned beef is widely loved across the Pacific islands, and because this is quick to make it often appears on weekday tables. It's eaten with taro or rice.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At dinner in a Tongan home, cabbage and corned beef simmer with coconut cream in a frying pan and are plated with boiled taro.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Cabbage 1/4
Corned beef 1 can
Onion 1
Coconut cream 150ml
Salt A pinch
Black Pepper A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Roughly chop the cabbage and slice the onion.
Fry the onion in a frying pan, add the corned beef, and stir-fry, breaking it up.
Add the cabbage and stir-fry until soft.
Add the coconut cream and simmer 5 minutes.
Season with salt and pepper.

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