A lovo is an underground oven used as a traditional Fijian method of cooking food in large quantities to bring together communities or groups. It can be likened to a Fijian version of a barbeque or grilling, with somewhat more smoky flavours.
Q. What is Fiji diet?
A typical Fijian meal would almost always include noodles, canned food and frozen vegetables, while many Fijian families would only have a proper traditional meal – of fresh fish, seaweed or shellfish and crustaceans combined with green leafy vegetables and coconut – on a weekend.
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Q. What is a lovo in Fiji?
Every Wednesday evening we prepare dinner in an underground oven called a lovo. This is Fiji’s traditional method of cooking — a shallow hole in the sand is filled with stones heated by fire. Atop the stones, wrapped delicacies are layered and cooked until tantalizing scents of the roast emerge.
Q. What can I put in Lovo?
Various ingredients, from meat to vegetables and palusami (taro leaves filled with corned beef, onions and coconut cream) are then wrapped up and placed over the coals. Everything from fish to chicken and pork can be cooked in a lovo and will also sometimes also be bundled up in banana leafs to retain their moisture.
Q. How do you do Lovo?
Place the vegetables, breadfruit, chicken and palusami on top of the palm leaves. Cover the food with banana leaves and coconut palm fronds. Cover the banana leaves and palm ferns with the reserved dirt. Cook for 45 minutes – 1 hour, then slowly uncover.
Q. How do you marinate Lovo?
Fijian Lovo Chicken Here’s how it’s made, Prepare a whole chicken And Marinate with 2 table spoons of fresh ginger, 2 table spoons soy sauce, 1 cup chopped onion, and 2 tablespoons of honey. Marinate for 3-6 hours. Fijians use hot stones for a radiant heat effect.
Q. What is the meaning of Lovo?
O: Meaning of O in the name LOVO means: You are very open-minded. Constancy and truth as friend or lover earns great happiness. Fantasy and illusions mar love life.
