New Zealand Cuisine

5 dishes · Community built

New Zealand Dishes

#1

Hangi

★ 4.9432 ratings

New Zealand's most ancient cooking method — a Maori earth oven in which meat and vegetables are slow-cooked over heated ...

#2

Pavlova

★ 4.91876 ratings

The great trans-Tasman dispute — both Australia and New Zealand claim to have invented this dessert of crispy meringue s...

#3

Hokey Pokey Ice Cream

★ 4.81234 ratings

New Zealand's most beloved ice cream flavour — vanilla ice cream studded with small, irregular lumps of golden honeycomb...

#4

Whitebait Fritter

★ 4.7321 ratings

New Zealand's most seasonal delicacy — tiny transparent juvenile fish (the young of several native galaxiid species) mix...

#5

Rewena Bread

★ 4.6287 ratings

Traditional Maori potato bread — a sourdough made with a fermented potato starter (the rewena) that gives it a distincti...

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