Luau Palusami (american Samoa)

Total Time: 1 hr 30 mins Preparation Time: 30 mins Cook Time: 1 hr

Ingredients

• Servings: 10
• 5 coconuts
• onion
• taro root, leaves (lots, usually the inside leaves are preferred)
• salt
• 1 cup water

Recipe

• 1 preparing the cream:.
• 2 scrape 5 fresh coconuts into the baking tin.
• 3 bake in oven until brown.
• 4 add 1 cup of warm water.
• 5 squeeze with a thin cloth or tauaga to get cream.
• 6 add salt and onion to personal taste.
• 7 preparing the luau palusami:.
• 8 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.
• 9 place leaves in hand and close hand slightly to make leaves in a bowl-like shape, into which you pour the cream.
• 10 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.
• 11 wrap total package in aluminum foil, twisting the top to conceal and hold the package tight.
• 12 put in oven and cook for about an hour at 475 degrees f. (quite high).