Sunday Feast · Palusami
Palusami
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The coconut cream is traditionally squeezed fresh from grated coconut, and the taro-leaf parcels are often wrapped in an outer breadfruit or banana leaf before going into the umu.
Palusami is young taro leaves filled with coconut cream, onion and sometimes tinned meat, wrapped into parcels and baked or cooked in an umu until the leaves soften and the coconut cream thickens inside.
Why it's made this way: Wrapping food in taro leaves let cooks contain and steam rich fillings inside an earth oven without any pots, while the leaves themselves become edible once fully cooked.
Roughly what's in it
350kcal
8gprotein
18gcarbs
28gfat
Estimated per typical street-vendor portion — not lab-tested.
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