Pacific Island food?!
Answers: My husband comes from the Island of Palau and I want to do something special and make him some "the good food" from his island...can you help me out! give me some ideas! Thanks
Kangkun Bread (kangkong)
Ingredients:
1-1/4 cup lukewarm water
2 tablespoon olive oil
11 ounces kangkun (water spinach) shredded very fine.
3 cups bread flour
3 teaspoons yeast
1 teaspoon salt
4 ounces feta cheese
2 tablespoons Italian seasoning
1 Tablespoon garlic powder
Preparation:
Mix water with olive oil and kangkun.
Add flour, yeast, crumbled feta cheese, salt and seasoning and knead for 5 minutes to a very soft dough. If the dough is sticky add flour.
Cover the dough and let it rise for an hour and a half in a warm place.
Pat the dough and knead again. Shape into one big loaf or into four small mini loafs. Cover and let it rise for an hour to an hour and a half.
Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes. For thicker, crust spray water on the bread before baking.
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The main ingredients of pihlohlo and chelsekl el diokang are
cassava and tapioca. Cassava is a plant grown in the tropics
for its fleshy, edible rootstock, which yields nutritious starch.
Tapioca is a granular preparation of cassava starch.
Pihlohlo (from Pohnpei)
Ingredients:
? cassava/tapioca
? ripe banana
? coconut milk
? sugar (optional)
? banana leaves
Directions:
Extract and grate cassava/tapioca starch and meat and place
in separate containers. Mash up banana, using 1/4 of the
grated tapioca. Mix enough coconut milk with the tapioca
starch to dilute it. Combine these mixtures and add sugar to
taste. Warm the banana leaves until they are glistening and
soft and arrange them in a baking pan. Pour the mix onto the
banana leaves and cover the top with more banana leaves to
protect it from burning. Cook in the oven or uhmw at roughly
375 degrees for about an hour, then lower heat to slowly cook
until well done. Cool, eat, and enjoy!
Chelsekl El Diokang (from Palau)
Ingredients:
? vegetable oil
? cooked tapioca
? sugar
Directions:
Pour enough vegetable oil to fry an egg into an ovenproof pan. Add the cooked tapioca and sprinkle it with sugar to taste. Stir the tapioca with the sugar until the sugar melts; cool, eat, and enjoy!
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Papaya Chicken and Coconut Milk
Ingredients
8 chicken skinless, boneless breast halves, cut into ?-inch cubes
1 papaya, peeled, seeded, and thinly sliced
1? cups coconut milk (canned, bottled, or fresh)
1 onion, chopped
? cup olive oil
Procedure:
In a frying pan, heat the olive oil and cook chicken cubes over high heat until they are almost cooked (about 5 minutes).
Add the chopped onion and cook until the onion becomes clear, about 5 minutes.
Add the papaya slices and cook for 5 more minutes.
Remove mixture from heat and add the coconut milk.
Serves 4.
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