NATIONAL DISH OF AMERICAN SAMOA
LUAU/PALUSAMI



SERVES 10
Ingredients & Baking needs
5 coconuts - coconut scraper
onions  
baking tin
lots of taro leaves - (usually the inside leaves are preferred) 
aluminum foil
a thin cloth or a "tauaga" (strainer)
salt 

PREPARING THE CREAM:
Scrape 5 fresh coconuts into the baking tin. 
Bake in oven until brown. Add 1 cup of warm water.
Squeeze with a thin cloth or tauaga to get cream.
Add salt and onion to personal taste.

PREPARING THE LUAU/PALUSAMI:
1) Get taro leaves. (You will need 4 leaves for one luau.
Use 1 big leaf and 3 or 4 smaller leaves. You can break a bigger leaf to make a smaller leaf.) Lay 
the 4 pieces flat with the big one on the bottom and the 3 smaller ones on top.

2) Place leaves in hand and close hand slightly to make leaves in a bowl-like shape, into which you 
pour the cream. 

3) Pour ~ a small cup of coconut cream inside the leaf structure and close outside edges of the 
leaves to enclose the cream, making the leaves like a ball-like structure.

4) Wrap total package in aluminum foil, twisting the top to conceal and hold the package tight.
 
5) Put in oven and cook for about an hour at 475 degrees F. (quite high).


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