te bua toro ni baukin

Kiribati · Oceania

Baked pumpkin and cabbage mixture with small pieces of tinned meat in a shallow dish.
te bua toro ni baukin

Te bua toro ni baukin combines grated pumpkin, shredded cabbage and canned meat in a baked dish. Good Food on Bad Plates’ tested version mixes these with flour, baking powder, powdered milk and lemon juice. The mixture is placed in a greased baking dish and cooked in the oven.[1]

In their home adaptation, the cooks used butternut squash in place of pumpkin and recorded covering the dish partway through baking to keep the cabbage from becoming too crisp. Their account compares the finished preparation to a vegetable gratin.[1]

References

Sources checked:

  1. Surprising Spam: I-Kiribati te bua toro ni baukin — Good Food on Bad Plates, firsthand cooking account

image credit

AI-generated depiction of the dish.

te bua toro ni baukin

creator:
Gochizu / OpenAI
modified:
AI-generated depiction; resized and re-encoded for Gochizu.

audio credit

voice:
marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
source:
OpenAI API Text to Speech
modified:
AI-generated voice audio.