- cassava ( a tropical plant ) She grab a handfull of it and squeeze it on to her hands.
- next she takes the cassava and takes it into the cookhouse.
- next she heats some special rocks.
- next she places half of the rocks at the bottom of a motu also known as a stone oven using a large wooden tongs.
- after that she placers the banana leaves on the motu.
- offences the leaves are in place she put cassava pulp on top of the smaller banana in the motu
- after she flatting the cassava out and makes a parcel by wrapping the leaves over top of the leaves.
- next she covers this parcel with more banana leaves.
- Using the tong’s she, she places the rest of the the hot rocks.
- on the very top of this layer of leaves, she gets heavy rock to to weigh it down.
- you have to be very patient to cook this way.
- she leaves the cassava to cook motu for three hours.
- after all this time, she takes off the hot rocks.
- she fans the parcel containing the cassava to cool it down, then carefully lift it out of the motu and leaves it to cool.
- now she shakes some of the hot rocks individually between two coconut.
- the rock are then placed in the bowl containing coconut milk had prepared some for her.
- this helps to warm up the milk to the same temperature as the cassava cooking in the motu.
- next she unwraps the parcel containing the cassava and places it in a bowl, which she gives to someone. her friend has A big bamboo that he uses to mash the cooked cassava.
- as he mashes the cassava she slowly pours in the coconut milk.
I am a Year 8 student at Pt England School in Auckland, NZ. I am in Room 1 and my teachers is Mr Wiseman.
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