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Southland Cheese Rolls
A thick cheese-and-onion filling rolled in white bread, buttered and grilled until golden. The Southland snack, in…
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66 New Zealand recipes, from the everyday to the ambitious.
The 66 recipes cover 6 of the site’s categories, among them 24 dinners, 18 bakes, 10 lunches, 7 desserts, 4 appetisers and small plates and 3 breakfasts. Of these, 14 are ready in 30 minutes or less, start to finish; the quickest are Smoked Eel Pâté (15 min), Green Lipped Mussels (20 min) and Pikelets (20 min). For 26, the method times a wait such as rising, chilling or marinating, and the time at the top of the recipe includes it. By difficulty: 39 easy, 26 medium and 1 hard.
As written, 35 are vegetarian, 6 vegan, 10 gluten-free and 13 dairy-free. Another 2 meet a diet label only with a swap the recipe names, and the recipe says which.
New Zealand recipes — all 66 recipes
Bread
Cheese and Bacon Rolls
Soft yeast dough rolled up with bacon, cheddar and spring onion, sliced into spirals and baked until the cheese…
Baking
Afghan Biscuits
Short, buttery chocolate biscuits with cornflakes folded through, iced with chocolate and topped with a walnut half…
Desserts
Hokey Pokey Ice Cream
Vanilla no-churn ice cream studded with shards of homemade honeycomb toffee. The New Zealand favourite, with a long…
Lunch
Kumara Soup
Orange kumara simmered with ginger, cumin and chilli, blended smooth with coconut milk and finished with lime…
Lunch
Roasted Kumara Salad
Caramelised roasted kumara tossed warm with rocket, feta, red onion and toasted pumpkin seeds in a mustard-lemon…
Lunch
Whitebait Fritters
Tiny whitebait held together by nothing but beaten egg and fried in foaming butter. The New Zealand delicacy, in…
Dinner
Seafood Chowder
A creamy chowder of white fish, mussels and prawns with potato, bacon and celery. The pub-menu classic, in an hour.
Dinner
Kumara and Coconut Curry
Orange kumara and chickpeas simmered in coconut milk with red curry paste and finished with spinach and lime…
Lunch
Bacon and Egg Pie
Whole eggs set into bacon, onion and peas under a puff pastry lid. The Kiwi picnic pie, and it slices cold.
Desserts
Lolly Cake
Crushed malt biscuits, condensed milk and butter mixed with chopped pink and white marshmallows, rolled in coconut…
Baking
Louise Cake
A soft shortcake base, a layer of raspberry jam, and a light coconut meringue baked until crisp on top and chewy…
Baking
Ginger Crunch
A crisp ginger biscuit base topped with a thick, fudgy ginger icing poured on while both are hot. A New Zealand slice.
Dinner
Boil-Up
Pork bones simmered until the meat falls away, then potatoes, kūmara, dumplings and greens cooked in the same pot. A…
Lunch
Mussel Fritters
Chopped green-lipped mussels in a light batter with spring onion, fried until golden. A New Zealand takeaway and…
Baking
Feijoa Cake
A moist butter cake with chopped feijoa folded through it and a cinnamon-sugar top. The New Zealand answer to the…
Dinner
Kūmara Gnocchi
Soft gnocchi made from baked kūmara, the New Zealand sweet potato, tossed in brown butter with crisp sage and…
Breakfast
Corn Fritters
Sweetcorn fritters with spring onion, coriander and a little cumin, fried until golden. The café brunch classic of…
Baking
Belgian Biscuits
Two spiced biscuits sandwiched with raspberry jam, iced pink and topped with half a cherry. A New Zealand and…
Baking
Date Loaf
A dark, sticky loaf made from dates softened in boiling water with bicarbonate of soda, with walnuts. Sliced and…
Dinner
Hāngī
Pork, kūmara, potato, pumpkin and cabbage steamed tender in a sealed tin under a wet cloth. A kitchen version of the…
Lunch
Pāua Fritters
Tenderised, minced pāua in a thick egg batter with onion and parsley, fried in butter and oil until golden. Served…
Appetizers
Smoked Eel Pâté
Hot-smoked eel blended with cream cheese, sour cream, lemon and horseradish into a rich, smoky pâté. Ready in…
Dinner
Garlic Butter Crayfish
Crayfish (rock lobster) tails boiled in salted water until bright red, split, and finished with hot garlic butter…
Dinner
Slow-Cooked Lamb Shanks in Red Wine
Lamb shanks browned, then braised for three hours in red wine, tomato and rosemary until the meat slides off the…
Dinner
Crispy Pork Belly with Kūmara Mash
Slow-roasted pork belly with crackling that shatters, on a mound of buttery kūmara mash, with a sharp apple and…
Dinner
Venison Stew
Venison cubes browned and braised for three hours with bacon, root vegetables, red wine, juniper and redcurrant…
Breakfast
Creamed Mushrooms on Toast
Mushrooms browned hard in butter, then simmered in a little cream with mustard, thyme and lemon and piled onto thick…
Dinner
Potato Top Pie
A shortcrust case filled with thick beef mince in gravy and capped with mashed potato and melted cheese. A New…
Lunch
Mince and Cheese Pie
Beef mince in thick gravy with melted tasty cheddar, in a shortcrust base under a flaky puff lid. The New Zealand…
Dinner
Lamb and Rosemary Pie
Tender chunks of lamb shoulder, slowly cooked in a rosemary gravy and baked in a shortcrust base under a puff pastry…
Appetizers
Cheese and Marmite Pinwheels
Puff pastry spread with Marmite, scattered with tasty cheddar, rolled and sliced into pinwheels that bake up crisp…
Bread
Savoury Corn Muffins
Tall, tender muffins full of corn, tasty cheddar and spring onion, with a little smoked paprika. Mixed in one bowl…
Baking
Rēwena Parāoa
A Māori bread raised with a fermented potato starter instead of yeast. Soft, moist and faintly sweet and sour, with…
Baking
Tan Square
A buttery shortbread base with a chewy condensed milk caramel and a crumble of the same dough on top. A classic New…
Desserts
Peppermint Slice
A no-bake slice of a cocoa and coconut biscuit base, a pale green peppermint icing and a glossy dark chocolate…
Desserts
Squiggle Slice
A no-bake slice inspired by a New Zealand biscuit: a biscuit base, custard icing, crunchy honeycomb, a chocolate…
Baking
Condensed Milk Biscuits
Buttery, crisp-edged biscuits sweetened with condensed milk, rolled into balls and pressed with a fork. No egg, and…
Baking
Boston Bun
Soft, spiced sultana buns made with a little mashed potato, topped with a thick layer of pink icing and desiccated…
Baking
Date Scones
Tall, soft scones with chopped dates and a little cinnamon, made with a light hand and baked hot. Best split and…
Baking
Pāraoa Parai
Little pillows of soft dough fried in hot oil until they puff up golden and hollow. New Zealand's Māori fried bread…
Desserts
Kiwifruit Cheesecake
A no-bake cheesecake on a crushed biscuit base, with a light, creamy filling of cream cheese, whipped cream and…
Condiment
Tamarillo Chutney
Tamarillos, onions, ginger and spices simmered with brown sugar and vinegar into a rich, deep red chutney, sweet and…
Dinner
Apricot Chicken
Chicken thighs baked in a sweet and savoury sauce of apricot nectar, onion soup mix, apricot jam and Dijon mustard…
Dinner
Crayfish Mornay
Sweet cooked crayfish tail in a creamy cheddar and Parmesan mornay sauce, topped with crumbs and grilled until…
Dinner
Devilled Sausages
Plump sausages simmered in a sweet, tangy, mildly curried sauce of tomato, Worcestershire and mustard. A New Zealand…
Dinner
Savoury Mince
Beef mince browned with onion and carrot, simmered in a rich gravy with tomato sauce and Worcestershire sauce, then…
Baking
Hokey Pokey Biscuits
Crisp, golden, toffee-flavoured biscuits made with butter, golden syrup and bicarbonate of soda. The New Zealand…
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- Curried Sausages
- Green Lipped Mussels
- Kiwi Fruit Pavlova
- Kiwi Onion Dip
- Kumara Chips
- Kūmara Fritters
- L&P Cake
- Marmite Cheese Scrolls
- New Zealand Corn Fritters
- New Zealand Kiwi Burger
- New Zealand Mince and Cheese Pie
- Pikelets
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