The Pacific Islands Cookbook


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Mongo Lon Saak  
Estimated Nutritional Values  
2
8
2
2
medium dryland taro  
green onions  
red bell peppers  
cups sweet potato leaves, or 1 cup kangkong, 1 cup pumpkin  
leaves, tapioca leaves, chilli leaves, and pele  
cup chopped buoy nuts  
cups fish or crabs  
carrots chopped  
Amount/Serving  
% DV*  
Amount/Serving  
% DV*  
Calories  
1290 kcal 65 %  
105 Gm 162 %  
82 Gm 410 %  
Carbohydrate  
Iron  
81 Gm 27 %  
8.7 Mg 48 %  
119 Mg 12 %  
Total Fat  
Saturated Fat  
Cholesterol  
Sodium  
Calcium  
1
1
2
6
19 Mg  
93 Gm  
6 %  
4 %  
Vitamin A  
Vitamin C  
4775 IU  
96 %  
1/2  
42.1 Mg 70 %  
Protein  
24 Gm 48 %  
coconuts  
Wash and peel dryland taro. Cut into cubes and boil until cook. Wash  
*Percent daily Values (DV) are based on a 2,000 calorie diet  
and chop onion, red bell pepper, potato leaves and carrots. Grate the coconut  
and save the coconut shell to steam with. Prepare coconut milk.  
Put all the vegetables, nuts, fish or meat, carrots, cooked taro inside  
half the shell. Pour coconut milk over the mixture, add salt to taste. Put the  
other half of the shell on top and tie tightly in place.  
Servings in this recipe:  
6
Milk:  
0
Veg:  
2
Fruit:  
0
Bread:  
1
Meat: 0.5  
Steam in pan of water for about 45 minutes or bake in an earth oven  
or bake in an oven. Stand coconut shell in a baking pan with water. Serve in  
the shell with lemon juice.  
Variation: Use corned beef, canned Mackerel, or octopus.  
Note: Extremely high in saturated fat. To reduce, replace up to half of  
the coconut cream with whole or low fat milk.  
Floria P. James/COM/YAP/EFNEP  


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