World Cuisines

Te Bua Toro

Kiribati

The mashed breadfruit: te bua toro ni bangu (bua toro) — cooked breadfruit or babai (giant swamp taro) mashed with kamaimai syrup or coconut into the atolls' festive mash. Ingredients: breadfruit or babai, kamaimai (toddy syrup) or coconut cream, water.

What it is

The mashed breadfruit: te bua toro ni bangu (bua toro) — cooked breadfruit or babai (giant swamp taro) mashed with kamaimai syrup or coconut into the atolls' festive mash. Ingredients: breadfruit or babai, kamaimai (toddy syrup) or coconut cream, water. Recipe: 1) Boil or roast the breadfruit/babai. 2) Mash with syrup or coconut. 3) Form and serve warm. 4) With fish alongside. Serve: at botaki (celebrations) under the maneaba meeting house. Flavor: starchy-sweet, caramel-edged. History: babai pits (some centuries old) are Kiribati's cathedrals of food — the giant taro takes years to grow. See also: Te Karewe (Toddy), Reef Fish (Kiribati).

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