Earth Oven Feast · Mumu
Mumu
Photo: Jay Evennett / Wikimedia Commons · CC0
A mumu can take half a day to prepare underground but only minutes to demolish once the leaf-wrapped parcels of pork and greens are dug back up.
Mumu is Papua New Guinea's traditional pit-cooked feast: pork, chicken, kaukau (sweet potato) and greens are wrapped in leaves, layered over hot stones in a dug pit, and covered to steam for hours.
Why it's made this way: With no ovens or large pots traditionally available, communities used heated stones buried in earth to cook enough food for large groups at once.
Roughly what's in it
570kcal
28gprotein
50gcarbs
25gfat
Estimated per typical street-vendor portion — not lab-tested.
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