Treats from Lutari Island: 5 recipes for Lutari Day

These recipes are easy to recreate in your kitchen at home and would be great additions to a Lutari Day party. If you’re not old enough, be sure to ask a parent or guardian for help before using knives, hobs or the oven!

Lutari Pancakes

These pancakes make for a hearty meal, even Shenkuu’s own Xana DiLanche has been known to eat several for breakfast before training for her next big Yooyuball game! Oats are the key ingredient for this delicious food’s morning boost, and they taste amazing with a drizzling of maple syrup over them!

To achieve the Lutari shape of these pancakes, add the mixture to a clean squeezable condiment bottle and squeeze the mixture in the desired shape onto the hot frying pan. You may have to cut the opening of the bottle to make it bigger, so that the mixture can flow out.

Serves 8

75g plain flour

75g rolled oats

200ml semi-skimmed milk

1 tsp baking powder

1 tsp sugar

1 medium egg

30g margarine (melted), plus extra for cooking

Pinch of salt

1. Sift flour, baking powder, salt and sugar into a mixing bowl. Add oats.

2. Beat the egg

3. Add the beaten egg, milk and melted margarine to the bowl and mix until all ingredients are combined. If the mixture is too thick, add a little extra milk and continue mixing until all the flour is evenly mixed in.

4. Heat frying pan on the hob and add extra margarine until melted.

5. Add mixture and fry, when the first side is cooked, flip and fry the other side.

6. Serve with a drizzling of maple syrup.

Lutari Fizz

This tropical drink is the perfect refreshment to delight your guests at your Lutari Day celebration. It is quick and simple to make, so it will be easy to whip up a new batch if it is all finished in seconds.

Serves 4

1 small mango

100g raspberries

400ml fizzy lemonade

200ml pineapple juice

Caster sugar

1. First, prepare the glasses: dip the rims into the pineapple juice and then dip them into the caster sugar. Set glasses aside.

2. Skin the mango and remove the stone, then roughly chop the mango flesh.

3. Add mango, raspberries, and pineapple juice to a blender and blend until smooth. Make sure the lid is on!

4. Add lemonade and stir.

5. Pour fizz gently into glasses.

Iced Lutari Cookie

These cookies are universally loved – Lutaris young and old will enjoy icing the colourful faces and shapes! Why not hold a competition to ice the faces of famous Lutaris such as Dr. Landelbrot, Mr. Chipper or Roxton A. Colchester III, and whoever guesses the Lutari first gets to eat the cookie?

Serves 10

For the cookies:

100g margarine

50g caster sugar

1 medium egg

150g plain flour

A few drops of vanilla essence

1. Preheat the oven to 180°C.

2. Place a non-stick baking sheet on a baking tray ready for your cookie creation.

3. Sift the sugar into a mixing bowl and add the margarine, then cream the ingredients together until smooth.

4. Mix in the egg and the vanilla extract.

5. Slowly sift in the flour and mix until a dough is formed.

6. Lightly flour a work surface and roll the dough out until it is 1cm thick.

7. Cut Lutari-shaped cookies out of the dough and place on the baking sheet. When there is no more space to cut out the cookies, re-roll the remaining dough and repeat until all the dough has been used.

8. Bake for approximately 10 minutes, or until pale brown.

9. Remove from oven and allow to cool on a wire rack.

For the icing:

200g icing sugar

2 tbsp. water

1 drop of brown, blue and yellow food colouring

1. Sift the icing sugar into a mixing bowl and mix in the water to form a smooth consistency.

2. Divide the icing sugar into 3 bowls and add one drop of food colouring to each, to form one bowl of brown icing, one of blue, and one of yellow.

3. Fill a piping bag with your first colour and carefully ice the Lutari’s face!

Lutari Cocojuice

Lutari Cocojuice is traditionally made by adding seasonally available berries and fruit to the water of Lutari Island’s brightly coloured native coconuts. If you cannot find a Lutari Island coconut, a coconut from Mystery Island, Krawk Island, or the Tyrannian Jungle can be substituted, although it will not have its distinctive colour.

Serves 2

1 Lutari Island coconut, with coconut water inside (or you can buy coconut water separately)

1 mango

1 banana

100g raspberries

1. Chop coconut in half and remove coconut water. Set aside coconut shells.

2. Skin the mango and remove the stone, then roughly chop the flesh. Peel and chop the banana.

3. Add mango, banana, raspberries and coconut water to blender and blend until smooth. Make sure the lid is on!

4. Serve in coconut shells.

Lutango Brucicle

Lutangoes are a tangy, mango-like fruit native to Lutari Island, and make delicious Brucicles to cool your pets down as we head into the warmer months. Lutangoes can be difficult to find outside of their native jungles, so feel free to substitute them for mangoes in this recipe if you are unable to find them at your local market.

Serves 2

1 Lutango (or mango)

3 medium oranges

100ml water

1. Cut the oranges in half and grate zest into a bowl. Add water.

2. Squeeze the orange halves, adding the juice to the bowl.

3. Skin the Lutango and remove the stone, then roughly chop the flesh.

4. Add the Lutango and liquid to a blender and blend until smooth. Make sure the lid is on!

5. Pour mixture into Brucicle Ice Lolly Moulds, add Brucicle stick and freeze for 3 hours or until solid.

These were some of my favourite Lutari recipes to make at home. Naturally, these recipes won’t taste the same as authentic dishes made on Lutari Island itself, using ingredients grown on the island, but I’m sure your Lutari will love and appreciate the chance to taste them nonetheless. Many meals on Lutari Island are made using seasonal fruits and berries and I highly recommend experimenting with other seasonal tropical fruits to find your pets’ favourites! Have a great Lutari Day!