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Mumu

Name: Mumu
Total time: 240 min
Yield: Serves 8
Cuisine: Papua New Guinea
Ingredients: 800g Pork Shoulder; 2 Sweet potato; 6 Taro root; 3 Green banana; 1 bunch Spinach; 200ml Coconut cream; 2 tsp Salt; To taste Banana Leaves

Main Dish

⏱ 240 min

👥 Serves 8

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Pork, root vegetables, and greens wrapped in banana leaves and steam-roasted over hot stones in an earth oven — a Papua New Guinea feast.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Mumu is a traditional cooking method of the Papua New Guinea highlands: hot stones go into a pit, and pork, sweet potato (kaukau), taro, cooking bananas, and greens wrapped in banana leaves are layered in, covered with earth, and steam-roasted for hours. It's the feast for days when crowds gather, such as weddings, village festivals, and reconciliation ceremonies.

🌆 Where it's eaten: At a festival in a highland village of Papua New Guinea, people dig back the earth and lift steaming pork and root vegetables from banana-leaf parcels.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 8)

Pork Shoulder 800g
Sweet potato 2
Taro root 6
Green banana 3
Spinach 1 bunch
Coconut cream 200ml
Salt 2 tsp
Banana Leaves To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Cut the pork into large pieces and rub with salt.
Peel the sweet potatoes, taro, and bananas and cut into large pieces.
Line a heavy pot with banana leaves, layer the root vegetables, pork, and greens, and drizzle with coconut cream.
Wrap everything in banana leaves, cover, and steam-roast in a 160°C oven for 3 hours.
Open the leaves and arrange on a big platter.

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