For example, while Chicken Kelaguen sounds tasty, and gets quoted all over the place as a national dish of Micronesia, I can’t find any actual evidence that this is, in fact, the case.<\/p>\n
So instead, we’re going with a soup that I found described on several blogs from Peace Corps volunteers who actually spent time in FSM, which is made as a sharing dish for Sundays after church. Seriously – the missionaries were apparently SUPER successful in this part of the world, because there’s a LOT of overtly religious content mixed in with the recipes. (Our recipe is literally from “Grateful Ministries Micronesia.”)<\/p>\n
After looking at the various ones I could find, we decided to go with a video that appeared to be a decent average of the available options, and had the advantage of actually listing QUANTITIES for the various ingredients.\u00a0 Link at the bottom.<\/p>\n
The basic Kosrae soup has seafood, rice and coconut milk.\u00a0 If it weren’t for the coconut milk, you could call it a thin congee.\u00a0 \u00a0Here’s the ingredients we opted for:<\/p>\n
The process is dead simple too. (Which means the pictures are going to be kind of boring.)\u00a0 First, you cook the fish in a pot of boiling water.<\/p>\n We opted for “mostly done” on the rice, and then added in the fish, some shrimp, and some garlic and onion.<\/p>\n Seriously, yes – these are all just pictures of the same damn pot with some more or less opaque liquid in it. I know.<\/p>\n It got even MORE opaque when we tossed in the coconut milk.\u00a0 Let that all heat up and thicken a little, season with salt, black pepper, and red pepper flakes, and you’re done!<\/p>\n The light’s a little weird here – our apartment faces west, and the sun was going down, so I had to cast a shadow over the bowl to get it to come out at all.\u00a0 The picture, that is – the soup itself came out great.\u00a0 Rice, fish, and coconut makes for a very hearty, satisfying meal.\u00a0 It was even better reheated the next day.<\/p>\n This was one of our simpler outings, but they don’t all have to be all day productions, and this was delicious.<\/p>\n Next up, a nation so small that the cruise ship dock is visible on a map of the entire country.<\/p>\n Recipe: Soup Kosrae<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I know the title’s a bit awkward, but even the UN lists this country under “M”.\u00a0 What are we supposed to do? Micronesia is another geographically enormous country like the Maldives and Marshall Islands that is almost entirely water.\u00a0 It … Continue reading ![\"Kosrae](\"https:\/\/fnerk.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260329_181420.jpg\")
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\nThen you pull the fish out and shred it, and use the same water to cook rice.<\/p>\n<\/a>
\nAt this point, the video got somewhat vague about times.\u00a0 Do you put the fish back in NOW?\u00a0 Wait for the rice to be done?\u00a0 Somewhere in between?<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n