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New Zealand Food

Bacon and egg pie
Bacon and egg pies (breakfast pies) are a New Zealand classic pastry. The pie consists of juicy scrambled eggs, hearty whole eggs, thick smoky chunks of juicy bacon, buttery, flaky layers of puff pastry. This pie is the best ever picnic pie and a New Zealand favourite of weekend brunch for the...
Crayfish
New Zealand Crayfish,popularly known as crays resemble lobsters but lack the lobster’s large crushing pincers on their first pair of walking legs. This delicious Crayfish otherwise known as Spiny Rock Lobster is a true New Zealand delicacy. Crayfish dishes are very popular in New Zealand, prepared...
Cheese roll
New Zealand‘s or a Southland cheese roll is a slice of sandwich bread, on which a sauce of evaporated milk (unsweetened condensed milk), cheese and onion soup is spread, before it is rolled then toasted. Cheese rolls are a very popular food in Otago and Southland of New Zealand. Cheese Rolls make a...
Sausage sizzle
A sausage sizzle is a grilled or barbecued food item and community event held in Australia and New Zealand. A sausage is served on sliced bread with grilled onions and various condiments, most commonly tomato sauce, barbecue sauce or mustard.
Kiwi burger
The Kiwi burger contains, in no particular order, a juicy beef patty, a fried egg, beetroot, tomato, lettuce, cheese, onions, mustard, and tomato sauce (of course) on a toasted bun. The Kiwi burger is a type of burger totally unique to New Zealand, it consists of your normal beef burger ingredients...
Hāngī
Hāngī is a dish cooked in an earth oven by the Māori people of New Zealand, typically containing a variety of meats and vegetables. Hāngi is also a traditional New Zealand Māori method of cooking food using heated rocks buried in a pit oven, called an umu. The umu is essentially an underground pit...
Green lipped mussel
Perna canaliculus, the New Zealand green-lipped mussel, also known as the New Zealand mussel, the greenshell mussel, kuku, and kutai, is a bivalve mollusc in the family Mytilidae (the true mussels). P. canaliculus has economic importance as a cultivated species in New Zealand. Green lip mussels are...
Boil Up
Boil Up is a dish and a traditional method of cooking used by Maori’s in New Zealand where starchy vegetables such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, carrots, pumpkins are boiled together with pork bones, spinach/watercress and dumplings called dough boys. This type of dish can be found everywhere like...
Whitebait fritters
Whitebait fritters or patties are made with whitebait fish and egg white seasoned with condiments such as salt and pepper. Fried whitebait fish as an omelette is a traditional New Zealand dish, whitebait fish can also be prepared as a principle dish usually deep fried or poached. The whitebait is a...
Lamb
Lamb, hogget, and mutton, generically sheep meat is the most favorite food of New Zealand cuisine, far more than beef and pork. New Zealand Lamb is wonderfully versatile and easy to prepare. The are thus many dishes with ingredient sheep meat, like this herb crusted leg of lamb is a dilicous dish...