Samoa recipes
Recipes from Samoa: home cooking with cultural background, ingredient substitutes and step-by-step instructions.
Oceania
Palusami: Samoan Taro Leaves and Coconut Cream, Baked in the Oven
How to make Samoan palusami at home: edible taro leaves wrapped around coconut milk and onion and steam-baked in the oven in place of an umu, with leaf substitutes, prep that avoids an itchy throat, how to tell when it is done, regional variations, and storage.
Oceania
Panipopo (Pani Popo): Samoan Coconut Buns Baked in Coconut Sauce
A recipe for panipopo (pani popo), Samoa's sweet bread of soft yeast dough baked in a sauce of coconut milk, sugar and cornstarch. Covers the meaning of the name, baking in a big family pan, how to tell kneading and proofing are done, thickening the sauce, and the baking temperature.