🇻🇺 Ni-Vanuatu Cuisine

Chicken Lap Lap

Chicken Baked in Root Vegetable

Prep Time 30 min

Servings 6

Difficulty Hard

Calories 382 kcal

Grated taro layered with chicken pieces and coconut milk, wrapped in banana leaves and baked.

Ingredients

1kg taro, grated
600g chicken pieces
2 cups coconut milk
1/2 tsp salt
Banana leaves
1 onion, sliced
2 cloves garlic, minced
1 lime, juiced

Instructions

1 Grate taro finely.
2 Mix with coconut milk and salt.
3 Spread half the taro on banana leaves.
4 Layer chicken pieces, onion, and garlic on top.
5 Cover with remaining taro mixture.
6 Wrap in banana leaves and bake 2 hours in earth oven or regular oven at 180C.

Did You Know?

Chicken Lap Lap is the modern protein-enriched version of the ancient vegetarian original.