About this dish
A one-pot dish of pork bones or meat simmered with potatoes, kumara, and leafy greens like watercress.
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Ingredients
🥩500g pork bones or pork belly
🥔3 potatoes, chunked
🍠2 kumara (sweet potato), chunked
🥬2 cups watercress or puha
🌾Doughboys (flour dumplings), optional
Method
Serves 31
Simmer the pork in a large pot of water for about an hour until tender.2
Add potatoes and kumara, and continue cooking until soft.3
Add the greens in the last 10 minutes of cooking.4
Drop spoonfuls of doughboy dough into the pot if using, and cook until they float and are cooked through.5
Serve hot in bowls with the broth.✓ What Makes it Authentic
Boil up is a traditional Māori comfort food, valued as a simple, hearty family meal, often served with doughboys (dumplings).
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