Rinse your sweet potatoes thoroughly, then wrap in tinfoil
Place your tinfoiled sweet potatoes into the oven and bake for 30 minutes. You'll want to turn them over at the halfway point, but otherwise you can leave them to bake until they're soft enough to poke through with a fork
Stage 2 - Create Kaukau Puree
Once the sweet potatoes have cooked, remove them from the oven (keep the oven on, though) and peel the sweet potatoes out of the tinfoil
Slice your kaukau very carefully lengthwise
Take a spoon and hollow out your sweet potato into a bowl. For presentation's sake, try to keep the skin of your sweet potato intact, although this is optional
Begin to puree your sweet potato insides with a whisk. As the sweet potato begins to puree, add your coconut oil and continue to whisk
Add your coconut milk, shallots, garlic and ginger and whisk in well
Next, add your orange juice, cinnamon, salt and pepper, and whisk again
Very carefully and gently scoop your kaukau coconut mash back into the sweet potato skins (which will have cooled and slightly hardened again)
Place your filled kaukau canoes into the oven for another 5 minutes, then remove and let cool. Enjoy!
CoursesSide
CuisinePapua New Guinean
Recipe by Arousing Appetites: Home to the Serious Cook at https://blog.arousingappetites.com/kaukau-papua-new-guinea-sweet-potato-coconut/