New Zealand

Recipes by the places recorded in their sources.

New Zealand

5 recipes

Open jar of chunky feijoa jam with a spoon, fresh whole and cut feijoas, and toast spread with jam.

Feijoa jam

Blended whole feijoas simmer into a skin-on jam with lemon, sugar and vanilla. The skins remain for a more textured finish; keep this batch refrigerated or frozen because its method has no validated shelf-stable canning process.

New Zealand
· Fruit
AI-generated conceptual still life of separate pilot sauce samples; not a photograph of the MLA P.PSH.1475 prototypes.
High risk

Fermented beef heart and lung sauce

A 2023–2025 proof-of-concept made separate fermented extracts from beef heart and lung with Staphylococcus xylosus and protease. It reports supervised pilot findings, not a validated household method or a blended heart-and-lung formula.

New Zealand · Modern method
Meat
Golden square pieces of parāoa parai on a plate, with one piece broken to show its airy interior.

Parāoa parai

A yeast-leavened Māori fried bread recipe shared by Aunty Gina Harding, with a 12–14 piece batch, two rises and a 165°C fry.

New Zealand · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches
Illustrative view of the blended pūhā-and-mussel study preparation in a small screw-cap jar; not a photograph of an actual research batch.

Toroī with pūhā or watercress

Dixon's 2007 thesis records ten toroi study batches, five with puha and five with watercress, each from 2 kg of shell-on green-lipped mussels and about 600 g of greens. Its method is a laboratory one.

Aotearoa New Zealand · Modern method
Fish and seafood
A stack of round takakau skillet flatbreads with golden-brown patches and a light garlic-herb butter finish.

Takakau (skillet flatbread)

Christall Lowe's whānau takakau is an eight-piece wheat flatbread enriched with milk and oil or butter, rested briefly, then cooked one at a time in a skillet.

Aotearoa New Zealand · Modern adaptation
· Grains and starches