Cooking in the Jungle | Tribes & Ethnic Groups - Planet Doc Full Documentaries

• published: 25 Nov 2014
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▶ SUBSCRIBE! http://bit.ly/PlanetDoc Full Documentaries every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday! ▶ Documentary "Ambassadors of the Jungle" ▶ http://pdoc.es/AmbassadorsJunglePL This is a country of villages and of village people, who communicate by means of echoes and who grunt in greeting. The women are in charge of the pigs, the true wealth of the highlanders. Sometimes, when they are breast-feeding their young children, the women will also suckle the young pigs. Today they have gathered together to prepare MONO. This is an ancient recipe, and they all take part. It is a ritual, and the traditions must be strictly adhered to. They make a large fire, and place stones on it to heat up. These stones will later be placed in the hole they will dig in the ground, and there the food will be cooked. Meanwhile, they get the food ready: they cut the squash, peel the yam and the sweet potatoes, clean the ‘grim’ – a type of vegetable, similar to spinach – and remove the leaves from the corn cobs. The ‘monos’, the main ingredient, are small, sweet bananas, which they scrape with a bamboo cane knife, shredding them into small pieces. Once cooked, this pulp will be of the texture of a thick bechamel sauce. Once they have finished digging, the hole is lined with grass and banana leaves, so that the food does not touch the soil.Then, they place the red-hot stones in layers, separated from the food with banana leaves. Yet another use for bamboo is to carry water from the river. The underground oven needs enough humidity to ensure that the food will be cooked without burning the leaves. Two hours later, and the primitive pressure cooker has done its job the food is ready. ▶ SUBSCRIBE | http://bit.ly/PlanetDoc ▶ FULL DOCUMENTARIES | http://bit.ly/Full-Docs ▶ TRIBES DOCUMENTARIES | http://bit.ly/PlTribes ▶ FACEBOOK | http://bit.ly/FBPDoc ▶ TWITTER | http://bit.ly/TwPDoc ▶ TUMBLR | http://bit.ly/TbPlDoc