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Solomon Islands Sweet Potato Motu

Name: Solomon Islands Sweet Potato Motu
Total time: 90 min
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: Solomon Islands
Ingredients: 3 Sweet potato; 100ml Coconut milk; A pinch Salt

Side Dish

⏱ 90 min

👥 Serves 4

Difficulty ⭐⭐

Sweet potatoes wrapped in leaves and steam-roasted in a hot stone oven — a traditional Solomon Islands dish.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Motu is the traditional stone oven of the Solomon Islands: root vegetables, fish, and pork wrapped in leaves are laid on hot stones, covered with more leaves and stones, and steam-roasted. Made on Sundays and gathering days, it turns sweet potatoes fluffy and sweet.

🌆 Where it's eaten: On a Sunday in a Solomon Islands village, leaves are peeled from a stone oven in the ground and sweet potatoes come out in a cloud of steam.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 4)

Sweet potato 3
Coconut milk 100ml
Salt A pinch

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Wash the sweet potatoes and wrap in foil with the skins on.
Roast slowly at 160°C for 70–80 minutes.
They're done when a skewer slides in easily.
Warm the coconut milk and add salt.
Split the sweet potatoes and pour over the coconut milk to serve.

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