Dessert Soup · Banana in Coconut Cream
Suafa'i
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Whole ripe bananas are simmered until they collapse into a warm, sweet soup, often thickened with a little arrowroot.
Ripe bananas are simmered in coconut cream and water, sometimes thickened with arrowroot starch, until they break down into a warm, mildly sweet dessert soup, served at the end of a family meal.
Why it's made this way: Suafa'i makes use of Samoa's abundant bananas and coconuts, and remains a familiar way to close out a big family gathering in and around Apia.
Roughly what's in it
180kcal
2gprotein
32gcarbs
6gfat
Estimated per typical street-vendor portion — not lab-tested.
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