🇳🇷 Nauruan Cuisine

Boiled Taro

Plain Boiled Taro Root

Prep Time 5 min
Servings 4
Difficulty Easy
Calories 192 kcal

Taro root peeled and boiled until tender. Served with butter and salt as a starchy staple.

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Peel taro and cut into chunks.
  2. 2 Place in pot with salted water.
  3. 3 Bring to boil and cook 20 minutes until tender.
  4. 4 Drain well.
  5. 5 Toss with butter, lime juice, and pepper.
  6. 6 Drizzle with coconut cream and serve.

Did You Know?

Taro was one of the few crops that could be grown on Nauru's thin coral soil before phosphate mining.