The Pacific Islands Cookbook


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Sweet Potato and Fish  
Hoho with Meat and Vegetables (Tonga)  
2
cups cold boiled sweet potato  
cup boiling milk  
cup fish  
egg  
flour, as needed  
oil, as needed  
4
6-8 taro leaves  
1
1
1
1
cups chopped sweet potatoes  
1
/
1
1
2
cup coconut cream  
cup water chopped onion  
cup chopped pumpkin  
cup tinned meat  
Mash sweet potato, add milk and mix well. Add fish and egg and mix  
Clean the taro leaves and arrange on banana leaves that have been  
well. Shape mixture into small balls and roll in flour. Fry in deep fat.  
Note: High fat recipe due to deep fat frying.  
ASCC/EFNEP  
softened over the fire. Wash, peel, and chop the pumpkin, onions and sweet  
potatoes. Add meat to vegetables and mix. Put all on the taro leaves. Pour  
coconut cream on top. Wrap up and bake in an earth oven or steam for about  
1
hour. Serve hot.  
Variations: Use foil instead of softened banana leaves.  
Note: Extremely high in saturated fat. To reduce, replace up to half of  
coconut cream with whole and low fat milk.  
Sweet Potato, A Store of Goodness, South Pacific Foods Leaflet 13  
(1990), SPC, Noumea, New Caledonia  
Estimated Nutritional Values  
Amount/Serving  
% DV*  
Amount/Serving  
% DV*  
Calories  
560 kcal 28 %  
24 Gm 37 %  
17 Gm 85 %  
34 Mg 11 %  
441 Gm 18 %  
19 Gm 38 %  
Carbohydrate  
Iron  
72 Gm 24 %  
4.5 Mg 25 %  
Total Fat  
Saturated Fat  
Cholesterol  
Sodium  
Calcium  
76 Mg  
8 %  
Vitamin A  
Vitamin C  
23540 IU 471 %  
63.9 Mg 107 %  
Protein  
*Percent daily Values (DV) are based on a 2,000 calorie diet  
Servings in this recipe:  
5
Milk:  
0
Veg:  
0.5  
Fruit:  
0
Bread:  
1.5  
Meat: 0.5  


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