12/19: Samoan Dinner - Palusami

adapted from: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/samoan-palusami/detail.aspx

Ingredients

• 2 (10 ounce) bags fresh spinach
• 1 (12 ounce) can corned beef, broken into pieces
• 2 (10 ounce) cans coconut milk

Directions

1. Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
2. Make a layer of spinach leaves in the bottom of a 9x13 inch baking dish. Sprinkle with some of the corned beef, then keep repeating layers of spinach and corned beef until you run out of spinach. Don't worry about how full the dish is because the spinach will shrink as it cooks. Pour both cans of coconut milk over the dish, pressing the leaves down with a spoon. Cover tightly with a lid or aluminum foil.
3. Bake in the preheated oven for 45 to 55 minutes, or until spinach has completely wilted and the sauce is bubbly. Cool for 10 minutes before serving.

My ingredients:

• 3 bunches (about 2 lbs) of taro leaves - 3.89/lb @ sunset super (other recipes called for yam leaves...i think they might be the same thing or mislabeled at sunset super)
• 1 can corn beef (safeway generic brand)
• 1 can coconut milk

My Procedure:

1. preheat oven to 350 degrees
   
2. rips off leaves from stems of taro leaves...wash off all dirt (very dirty)
3. line a tray with taro leaves, then broken pieces of corned beef, and keep repeating til hit the top of the tray.
   
4. pour coconut milk on top
5. bake covered for 50min til bubbly

Result:

• pretty good but still tastes bland...needs to add salt
• corned beef is very tasteless...don't think i need it
• similar to creamed spinach
• can definitely substitute with spinach next time to save money