Recipes from Around the World

Posted by Paul Brewster

If I hadn't missed a few editions, we'd be finished the first go round the alphabet, but as it is, we're up to "W".

Has anyone heard of Wallis and Futuna ? It's officially the Territory of the Wallis and Futuna Islands and is a French island collectivity in the South Pacific between Tuvalu to the northwest, Rotuma of Fiji to the west, the main part of Fiji to the southwest, Tonga to the southeast,Samoa to the east, the New Zealand-associated state of Tokelau to the northeast and to a more distant north the Phoenix Islands (Kiribati). Wallis and Futuna is not part of French Polynesia, nor even contiguous with it, as the former are located at the very opposite western end of Polynesia.

So now you know !!!! Anyway here's a recipe for Stuffed Bananas from Wallis and Futuna. Sounds peculiar enough for me to want to try it !!!

Ingredients:

6 green bananas

9 oz ground beef

1 onion, chopped fine

1 egg

Salt and pepper

Method:

Brown the meat and set aside.

In a small bowl, beat the egg.

Slice the bananas in half lengthwise and remove the flesh, taking care not to damage the peels.

Mash with a potato masher and then mix in the meat, egg and onion.

Stuff the banana peels with the mixture and wrap up in banana leaves.

Bake for 45 minutes

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