Everyday Green · Island Cabbage
Aelan Kabis (Island Cabbage)
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The plant is a relative of okra, Abelmoschus manihot, and its leaves turn slightly slippery when cooked — hence its other name, slippery cabbage.
Island cabbage refers to leafy greens, most often slippery cabbage or amaranth, cooked down with coconut cream, onion and sometimes tinned fish until soft. An everyday side dish sold at Honiara's Central Market.
Why it's made this way: Leafy greens grow easily and cheaply across the islands, and simmering them in coconut cream rather than imported oils reflects the coconut-based cooking common throughout Melanesia.
Roughly what's in it
180kcal
4gprotein
12gcarbs
13gfat
Estimated per typical street-vendor portion — not lab-tested.
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