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Koko Alaisa

Name: Koko Alaisa
Total time: 40 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Samoa
Ingredients: 1/2 cup Rice; 4 tbsp Cocoa powder; 200ml Coconut milk; 700ml Water; 80g Sugar; 1/2 (zest) Orange; A pinch Salt

Dessert

⏱ 40 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐

Rice simmered with Samoan cocoa and coconut milk — Samoa's chocolate rice porridge for breakfast.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Koko alaisa is a traditional Samoan breakfast: rice is simmered with koko Samoa — a paste of roasted cacao beans — coconut milk, and sugar into a chocolate-flavored porridge. Cacao has long been grown in Samoa. It's sometimes scented with orange leaves and made on Sunday mornings or for guests.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Sunday morning in a Samoan village, thick brown porridge in coconut-shell bowls and fresh bread are handed out to the family.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Rice 1/2 cup
Cocoa powder 4 tbsp
Coconut milk 200ml
Water 700ml
Sugar 80g
Orange 1/2 (zest)
Salt A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Put water and rinsed rice in a pot and simmer 20 minutes until soft.
Dissolve the cocoa in a little hot water and add.
Add the sugar, salt, and orange peel and simmer 10 minutes, stirring occasionally.
Add the coconut milk and bring back to a simmer.
Remove the orange peel and serve.

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