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Nalot

Name: Nalot
Total time: 60 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Vanuatu
Ingredients: 4 Green banana; 1 Sweet potato; 200ml Coconut cream; A pinch Salt

Side Dish

⏱ 60 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Roasted banana or root vegetables pounded and topped with coconut cream — a humble Vanuatu dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Nalot is a traditional Vanuatu dish: green bananas, taro, or breadfruit are roasted over a fire, peeled, pounded in a mortar, and eaten with coconut cream. Simple, yet the roasted aroma suits the sweetness of coconut. It's everyday village food.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a village fire in Vanuatu, roasted bananas are pounded in a mortar, topped with white coconut cream, and served on leaves.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Green banana 4
Sweet potato 1
Coconut cream 200ml
Salt A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Roast the bananas and sweet potatoes in their skins on a grill or in a 200°C oven for 40 minutes.
Peel.
Mash and knead with a pestle or wooden spatula.
Mound into rounds.
Pour over coconut cream with a little salt.

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