Cook Islands recipes

Recipes from Cook Islands: home cooking with cultural background, ingredient substitutes and step-by-step instructions.

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Cook Islands poke, a banana pudding baked a deep amber, spooned into a bowl and generously topped with white coconut cream
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Banana Poke: Cook Islands Ripe-Banana Pudding with Coconut Cream

A recipe for banana poke, the celebration-day dessert of the Cook Islands in the South Pacific, made with ripe bananas, tapioca starch and coconut cream. How to cook down and mash the bananas and work in the starch, judge doneness in a 200°C oven when the center turns translucent, serve with warmed, thickened coconut cream, make it with pumpkin, and cut it when chilled.

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