🇹🇻 Tuvaluan Cuisine

Coconut Bread Tuvalu

Sweet Coconut Flat Bread

Prep Time 15 min
Servings 6
Difficulty Easy
Calories 253 kcal

Simple bread made with coconut milk and grated coconut, baked until golden.

Ingredients

  • 2 cups flour
  • 1/2 cup coconut milk
  • 3 tbsp sugar
  • 1 tbsp baking powder
  • 1/4 tsp salt
  • 2 tbsp butter, melted
  • 1/4 cup grated coconut
  • 1/4 cup water

Instructions

  1. 1 Mix flour, sugar, baking powder, salt.
  2. 2 Add coconut milk, water, butter.
  3. 3 Knead into soft dough.
  4. 4 Fold in grated coconut.
  5. 5 Shape into round loaf.
  6. 6 Bake at 180C for 25 minutes.

Did You Know?

Coconut bread is baked for Sunday church services across every Tuvaluan atoll.

From The Culinary Codex — http://theculinarycodex.com/dish/tuvaluan/coconut-bread-tuv/