Mumu

Pork and root vegetables cooked in an earth oven with coconut.

Ingredients

• 2 kg Pork
• 1.5 kg Sweet potato
• 1 kg Taro
• 10 Banana leaves
• 3 cups Coconut cream
• 500 g Greens
• 2 Onions
• 3 tbsp Salt

Method

1. Heat the stones — Build a fire over river stones and burn it down for 2 to 3 hours until they glow.
2. Line the pit — Rake out embers and line the pit with banana leaves over the hot stones.
3. Layer — Put the salted pork in first, then the root vegetables, then the greens.
4. Add coconut — Pour coconut cream over everything.
5. Seal — Cover with more leaves and earth so no steam escapes.
6. Cook — Leave 3 to 4 hours.
7. Mumu is ready — Uncover and serve communally straight from the leaves.

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