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Curried pork lap lap recipe – Teaching resource

Lap lap is a plant found in the Pacific Islands. It’s like a banana and you can use the leaves to wrap food in to cook.

This curried pork lap lap is a healthy recipe that will teach students about the wide range of vegetables we have to cook with. They’ll learn a cooking technique that involves wrapping the dish in leaves or baking paper. With this recipe, we’ve used banana leaves or baking paper instead of lap lap leaves to make it easy.

Students will learn these food preparation and cooking skills:

  • Bake
  • Chop
  • Grate
  • Mix 

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