Earth oven with leaves, stones, and food cooking over smoke.

Mumu with pork and sweet potato

Papua New Guinea · Oceania

Short description
This communal earth-oven meal layers pork and root vegetables with leaves, then cooks them slowly with retained stone heat.
Ingredients
Pork cooked with sweet potato, taro, cooking bananas, greens, coconut milk, banana leaves, hot stones, and salt.
Cultural note
The cooking method is central: the covered pit turns a collection of staples into a shared feast.
Common misconception
It is not a single plated stew; the name refers to an earth-oven cooking method and the foods cooked inside it.

image credit

A Mumu in Papua New Guinea.jpg

creator:
Jay Evennett
modified:
Cropped to remove a partial person at the frame edge and resized for Gochizu; no content was added.

audio credit

voice:
marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
source:
OpenAI API Text to Speech
modified:
AI-generated voice audio.