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Island Cabbage Coconut Soup

Name: Island Cabbage Coconut Soup
Total time: 30 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Vanuatu
Ingredients: 1 bunch Molokhia; 300ml Coconut milk; 1/2 Onion; 1 piece Ginger; 1 tsp Chicken bouillon; A pinch Salt; 300ml Water

Soup

⏱ 30 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Island greens simmered with coconut milk and ginger — a gentle Vanuatu soup.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Island cabbage (aibika) is the most commonly eaten green on Vanuatu and other South Pacific islands — slippery and highly nutritious. Simmered with coconut milk, onion, and ginger, it becomes a gently flavored soup that appears on the daily table with root vegetable and fish dishes.

🌆 Where it's eaten: Greens picked from the yard of a Vanuatu village home simmer with coconut milk in a kitchen pot and are ladled into bowls.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Molokhia 1 bunch
Coconut milk 300ml
Onion 1/2
Ginger 1 piece
Chicken bouillon 1 tsp
Salt A pinch
Water 300ml

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Pick the molokhia leaves and chop.
Simmer the water, stock powder, sliced onion, and julienned ginger in a pot for 5 minutes.
Add the coconut milk to warm.
Add the greens and simmer 3 minutes.
Season with salt.

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