Coconut KauKau
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5
4 reviews
Excellent
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Prep Time
15 mins
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Cook Time
1 hr
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Total Time
1 hr 15 mins
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Servings
4 people
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Course
Main Course, Appetizer
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Cuisine
Oceania
Coconut KauKau
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Coconut kau kau is a delicious baked sweet potato recipe with coconut cream from Papua New Guinea.
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Ingredients
- 2 sweet potato kaukau
- 4 tablespoons butter , diced
- 3 tablespoons coconut or unsweetened shredded coconut, grated fresh
- ½ cup coconut cream
- ½ onion , finely chopped
- 2 cloves garlic , crushed
- 1 (1-inch) piece ginger grated, fresh
- 2 tablespoons orange juice
- salt to taste
- black pepper to taste
Instructions
- Rinse the sweet potatoes, then wrap each of them in aluminum foil and place on a plate.
- Bake in preheated 400F/200C oven for 1 hour or until cooked through.
- Cut sweet potatoes in two lengthwise.
- Scoop out about ¾ of the sweet potatoes with a spoon into a bowl.
- Immediately add the butter. Add salt and pepper, and mash with a fork to get a smooth purée.
- Set the skins of the half hollowed sweet potatoes on a baking sheet lined with parchment paper.
- Add the coconut cream, onion, garlic, ginger and orange juice to the mashed sweet potatoes. Mix well.
- Fill the hollowed half sweet potatoes with the mashed mixture.
- Bake in the oven for another 5 minutes before serving.
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