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Tuvalu

Pulaka, coconut crab and Pacific pit-cooking.

Iconic recipes

Steamed swamp taro with coconut cream and pandan.

Tuvaluan grated-pulaka pudding baked with coconut cream until set and fragrant.

Taro leaves slowly baked with coconut cream and onion — the Pacific umu staple Tuvaluan-style.

Lime-cured reef fish folded with coconut cream and onion — the daily catch reimagined.

Coconut crab (or mud crab) simmered in its own coconut cream with onion and pandan.

Crispy fritters of grated swamp taro and coconut, fried to golden discs.

Sweet toddy from the coconut palm flower — Tuvalu's everyday drink, served chilled.