Bougna

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Bougna is a traditional feast dish of the Kanaks (native New Caledonians).

It often contains taro, yam, sweet potato, banana, and pieces of either chicken, fish, crab or lobster. All of this is then wrapped in banana leaves and buried to cook in a ground oven, which uses red-hot rocks heated by fire for about two hours, before being unwrapped and eaten.