Micronesia

Recipes by the places recorded in their sources.

Micronesia

3 recipes

Photograph of Tipak.

Tipak

Tipak is a Kapingamarangi breadfruit product: cooked breadfruit mashed, spread into sheets, sun-dried, rolled and wrapped in pandanus leaves as provisions for later.

Kapingamarangi Atoll
Grains and starches
Illustrative finished Pohnpeian mahr, a dense kneaded breadfruit paste; the source does not establish a precise finished appearance.

Pohnpeian mahr (fermented breadfruit)

Pohnpeian mahr is breadfruit preserved in an earthen pit as an off-season reserve, then kneaded and prepared as bread. The FAO and NTBG accounts give no validated method or storage limit.

Pohnpei
Fruit
Breadfruit growing on its tree, shown as ingredient context for the documented Kosraean furo tradition; the exact appearance is not established by sources.
High risk

Furo (Kosraean preserved breadfruit)

Kosraean preserved breadfruit called furo in a 1919 ethnographic monograph. Two historical pit methods are recorded; the sources give no validated household process.

Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia
Fruit