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Saksak
Photo: Giorgio Trovato

Saksak

4 ingredients 9 steps fandom
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Estimated Nutrition (whole recipe, rough)

388
Calories
4g
Protein
27g
Fat
37g
Carbs
What these numbers assume — 2 portions →
Ingredient Portion assumed kcal
Coconut 1/2 cup shredded (40g) 283
Banana 1 medium (118g) 105

Totals for the whole recipe, adding one typical portion per ingredient — listed above. Quantities in the recipe are not counted, so this is a rough guide only — not suitable for medical or dietary planning.

Ingredients

  • 6 cups of ground sago
  • 4 ripe bananas mashed
  • a couple of banana leaves
  • coconut milk of 6 coconuts

Directions

1

Mix the ground sago and the 4 ripe bananas together well

2

Heat the banana leaves over the fire to soften them.

3

Cut the banana leaves into little rectangular pieces and wrap the sago in these pieces.

4

Pop the wrapped sago into boiling hot water in a pot. Let these boil for about 20 minutes.

5

Prepare another pot of creamed coconut milk. Squeeze the milk out of the 6 coconuts and boil this milk until it comes to boiling point.

6

Take the sago out of the boiling water, unwrap it from the banana wrap and drop the sago into the boiling coconut milk.

7

Let cook for another 20 minutes.

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Category:Papua New Guinean Recipes

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Category:Papua New Guinean Appetizers

Recipe sourced from fandom

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