Lets talk about NZ cooking:
Question: What Is a Hangi?
Answer: If you're invited to a hangi in New Zealand, what would you expect?
Hangi actually refers to the method of cooking in the ground with hot stones, or to the underground oven so created, and to the food so cooked.
Hangi actually refers to the method of cooking in the ground with hot stones, or to the underground oven so created, and to the food so cooked.
When you're asked to a hangi, you're actually being invited to a feast of Maori food cooked in the manner described. Various types of meats and vegetables, such as kumara or sweet potato, are wrapped in leaves or, in an acquiescence to modernity, aluminium foil. These items of wrapped food are then placed in a hole in the ground and cooked with hot stones.
Hangi is also known by the polynesian term umu.
Particularly in New Zealand towns like Rotorua, a number of hotels often serve hangi, accompanied by Maori music and folk dancing.
This is a real "taste" of Maori culture.
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3 comments:
Hi Peter,
So that's what a hangi is!
They are what the hangi is put into. I didn't have a picture of a hangi for my post. Hangi is underground cooking. Hot stones are putin and heated up - then the food is covered and put in - dirt hen covers the hangi until it is cooked then the food is wrapped in foil to keep it warm.
Pacific Islanders call it UMU - very similar to hangi.
Hi Peter,
Now I know more about the Hangi.
In Indonesia we also have similar kind of cooking bu I forgot the details.
Thank you for sharing.
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