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Aigir

Name: Aigir
Total time: 180 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: Papua New Guinea
Ingredients: 4 (bone-in) Chicken Thigh; 400ml Coconut cream; 1 Sweet potato; 4 Taro root; 2 Green banana; 1 bunch Spinach; 1 Onion; 2 tsp Salt; To taste Banana Leaves

Main Dish

⏱ 180 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Chicken, root vegetables, and greens steam-roasted over hot stones with coconut cream — a dish of New Britain island.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Aigir is a traditional dish of the Tolai people of New Britain island in Papua New Guinea: chicken or fish, sweet potato, taro, and greens are wrapped in banana leaves with plenty of coconut cream and steam-roasted over hot stones. Similar to mumu but distinguished by its generous coconut cream, it's made for celebrations and church events.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a seaside village on New Britain, banana-leaf parcels steam over hot stones and open to reveal chicken and root vegetables bathed in coconut cream.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Chicken Thigh 4 (bone-in)
Coconut cream 400ml
Sweet potato 1
Taro root 4
Green banana 2
Spinach 1 bunch
Onion 1
Salt 2 tsp
Banana Leaves To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Rub the chicken with salt.
Peel the root vegetables and bananas and cut large; cut the onion into wedges.
In a heavy pot lined with banana leaves, layer the root vegetables, chicken, onion, and greens.
Pour in the coconut cream and salt, wrap in the leaves, and cover.
Steam-roast in a 160°C oven for 2 1/2 hours.

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