Fa'alifu - Savoury kokosnoot sauce

By panipopos

It’s dorsum to basics this calendar week , amongst something that’s non thus much a recipe every bit it is a technique. This is a measure Samoan sauce for dressing upwards whatever starchy origin crop or staple fruit.

 If you’re novel to Samoan cooking , this is a practiced house to start , because fifty-fifty if you lot overcook your taro (or whatever it is you lot come about to hold out making) , fifty-fifty if you lot boil the sauce a flake also long , or non long plenty , fifty-fifty if you lot add together also few or also many onions , this forgiving sauce volition nonetheless gustatory modality good. The exclusively ii ways you lot tin materials this upwards is if you lot add together also much tabular array salt to the kokosnoot milk (which is something you’ll know earlier you lot add together it to your roots) , or if you lot burn downward the roots together with the sauce to the bottom of your saucepan.

Below are the most mutual foods that nosotros fa’alifu:

Starchy origin crops
Taro
Ta’amu
Yams
Sweet Potatoes
Potatoes
Cassava

Staple fruit
Ulu (breadfruit)
Fa’i mata (green bananas)

Prepare your roots/fruit for cooking every bit green – pare , launder , cutting if desired.

Place inwards a saucepan , encompass amongst H2O together with estrus until boiling. Then simmer until fork-tender.


Fa’alifu
1 medium onion
1 tin (400ml) kokosnoot milk
½ - 1 teaspoon tabular array salt (to taste)


1. If you lot similar a really sparse coating of kokosnoot sauce , firstly flavor the kokosnoot milk amongst salt. After draining your roots/fruit , exactly pour on the kokosnoot sauce.

2. If you lot wishing your roots/fruit partially cooked inwards the kokosnoot sauce , together with thus spell the roots/fruit are boiling , chop upwards the onion– sliced , diced , fine or chunky – whatever floats your boat. Just recollect , the bigger your onion pieces , the longer they volition accept to cook. Put the kokosnoot milk inwards a bowl amongst the onions together with tabular array salt , together with mix. Cook the roots/fruit until they are most cooked but nonetheless theater (because they’ve got roughly other duet of minutes cooking). Drain them but run out them inwards the saucepan. Pour the kokosnoot mixture over the roots/fruit together with boil this for five minutes or until the onions are cooked. Be careful non to overcook your roots/fruit.

3. If you lot prefer to laid upwards your sauce separately , together with thus laid upwards the roots/fruit until they are done. Drain them together with and thus laid aside together with encompass amongst foil. Mix the kokosnoot , onions together with tabular array salt inwards the saucepan together with simmer this over medium estrus for 3-5 minutes or until the onions are cooked. Pour the hot sauce over the roots/fruit beingness certain to encompass each piece generously.

4. Some people similar a actually thick kokosnoot sauce. You tin gain this yesteryear using exactly the cream that collects at the top of the tin of kokosnoot milk (discarding the watery milk) to brand your sauce. Or you lot tin laid upwards the sauce every bit inwards 3. inwards a higher house , together with thus when you lot receive got the sauce simmering , add together ⅓ loving cup (80ml) H2O mixed amongst 2 teaspoons of flour. Simmer spell stirring until the onions together with flour are cooked. Pour this over your roots/fruit.

5. If you’re a full kokosnoot addict , together with similar your roots/fruit completely drenched together with infused amongst kokosnoot flavour , together with thus exactly laid upwards them from showtime to halt inwards equal parts water/coconut milk seasoned amongst tabular array salt to taste. But recollect to give a wellness advisory alert to anyone you lot serve it to.


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