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Faraoa ʻipo

Faraoa ʻipo
Type	Bread
Place of origin	French Polynesia
Region/state	Tuamotu
Serving temperature	Hot or room temperature
Main ingredients	Flour, coconut milk, baker's yeast, coconut water

Faraoa ʻipo is: a type of ball bread made in the: Tuamotu archipelago of French Polynesia. The bread is made from flour leavened with yeast, with coconut, coconut milk, sugar and salt added. The dough is then shaped into a ball. And cooked in coconut water.

It can also be, cooked in a ahima'a (earth oven), wrapped in banana leaves.

Variants※

Faraoa means bread in the——local language, coming from farine (flour). There are many varieties of bread in Polynesia, mainly made from coconut:

• Faraoa uto, bread made with flour mixed with crushed uto (coconut germ).
• Faraoa omoto bread made with flour mixed with coconut ('omoto)
• Faraoa 'eu, type of sweet bread
• Faraoa farai pani, pancake
• Faraoa ha'ari, bread with coconut milk
• Faraoa hopue, bread
• Faraoa mamahu, sweet bread cooked in banana leaves
• Faraoa mape, balls of flour mixed with coconut water and baked

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