Tahitian Cuisine & Recipes

Typical Tahitian Dishes

Salads

• Salade Niçoise (Salad with tuna, olives, potatoes & green beans)

Poultry

• Chicken Fafa (Chicken with taro leaves)

Meats

• Pua Toro (Corned beef)

Fish & Seafood

• Fafaru (Fish fermented in seawater)
• Ma'oa & Pahua Taioro (Snails & clams in coconut seawater sauce)
• Poisson Cru, or E'ia Ota (Tahitian lime-marinated tuna)
• Shrimp in Coconut Milk (Shrimp simmered in coconut milk)

Vegetables & Beans

• Fe'i (Baked plantains)
• Poi (Boiled & mashed taro root)
• Ufi (Baked yams)
• Uru (Roasted Breadfruit)
• 'Umara (Baked sweet potatoes)

Breads & Grains

• Coconut Bread

Sauces & Condiments

• Miti-hue (Sour coconut milk)
• Taioro (Curdled coconut milk)

Desserts

• Baked Papayas
• Po'e (Fruit pudding)