Earth Oven Feast · Motu
Motu
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Cooking a motu means burying red-hot stones, root vegetables, and banana leaves for hours — then digging the whole feast back out of the ground.
Motu is the Solomon Islands' traditional stone-oven feast: heated stones are stacked in a pit, layered with peeled kumara, taro, cassava or yam, then sealed under banana leaves to steam and roast for hours until the vegetables turn smoky and tender.
Why it's made this way: Long before pots and ovens arrived, Solomon Islanders cooked communal feasts by burying hot stones in the ground — a method still used today at village celebrations and church gatherings around Honiara.
Roughly what's in it
420kcal
10gprotein
60gcarbs
16gfat
Estimated per typical street-vendor portion — not lab-tested.
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