Lovo

Meat and root vegetables cooked in an earth oven on hot stones.

Ingredients

• 1.5 kg Pork
• 1 kg Chicken
• 1 kg Cassava
• 1 kg Taro
• 800 g Sweet potato
• 10 Banana leaves
• 2 cups Coconut cream
• 3 tbsp Salt
• 2 Onion

Method

1. Heat the stones — Build a fire over stones in a pit and burn it for 2 hours until they glow.
2. Prepare the food — Season the meats, wrap them and the roots in banana leaves.
3. Layer the pit — Rake out the embers, lay banana leaves over the stones, then the meat, then the vegetables.
4. Cover — Cover with more leaves and earth so no steam escapes.
5. Cook — Leave 3 hours undisturbed.
6. Lovo is ready — Uncover carefully and serve with coconut cream poured over.

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