How to Make Takihi
Serves 6
Preparation time: 30 minutes
Cooking time: 1½–2 hours
Preheat the oven to 180°C
Cooking time: 1½–2 hours
Preheat the oven to 180°C
Ingredients you will need:
1 large white taro
1 large pawpaw
1½ cups coconut cream
1 cup low-fat milk
1 large white taro
1 large pawpaw
1½ cups coconut cream
1 cup low-fat milk
Steps:
- Peel the taro and the pawpaw and cut them into slices no more than ½ cm thick.
- Cut a length of cooking foil, long enough to line the base of a baking dish and to fold over the top of the dish.
- Place a layer of taro on the foil, then a layer of pawpaw.
- Keep making alternate layers of taro and pawpaw until you have used them all up.
- Mix the coconut cream and the milk together.
- Pour the mixture over the taro and pawpaw.
- Fold the cooking foil over the top of the food to make a parcel.
- Put the dish in the preheated oven and bake for 1½–2 hours.
- Fold back the foil and push a knife into the food to check that it is tender.
- Eat and enjoy!