🇹🇻 Tuvaluan Cuisine

Pandanus Paste Tuvalu

Pandanus Fruit Preserve

Prep Time 30 min
Servings 8
Difficulty Medium
Calories 159 kcal

Ripe pandanus fruit pounded into a sweet paste and dried on banana leaves. Traditional preserved sweet.

Ingredients

Instructions

  1. 1 Separate pandanus keys.
  2. 2 Extract pulp by pounding and scraping.
  3. 3 Mix with sugar, coconut cream, salt, vanilla.
  4. 4 Cook on low heat until thick.
  5. 5 Spread on banana leaves.
  6. 6 Dry in sun or low oven.

Did You Know?

Pandanus paste was essential survival food during cyclone seasons when other food was destroyed.