A nz specialty?? what a hoot, stuffing& steam puddings hangi has been around for decades.
noelee,
Jan 1, 8:56am
uli...Got to have stuffing ... breadcrumbs lots of butter to make it sweet chopped onions and mixed herbs dried or fresh in a hangi also steamed pudding mmmm. My next hangi in March cant wait. I went to a hangi they used a variety of stuffing mixes in their hangi, using either bread stuffing, mushroom galic fresh herbs, rice garlic herbs bacon mixes, they wrapped some in cabbage leaves, stuffed capsicum,pumpkin very nice an juicy too.
prawn_whiskas,
Jan 1, 8:59am
x1
Ugh u fullas make me drool haven't had real hangi in like 25+ years since my Koro died.That hangi sold at markets and fares cooked in the old kegs (those kai cooker things) just isn't the same.
fruitluva2,
Jan 1, 9:08am
Yes prawn_whiskas nothing beats an earth cooked hangi of old, unlike the lazy modern day contraptions of kegs and crockpots on the rise.
prawn_whiskas,
Jan 1, 9:10am
True, can't short cut a good thing.
dezzie,
Jan 1, 9:19am
yeah, the old hangi's are best, but sadly you are not allowed to sell it cooked like that, even if you have a hangi now at a school fundraiser that is in a hole, you have to individually wrap the meals in tin foil before putting them in the baskets, pointless really, might as well have been cooked in an oven, the cooked dirt smell/taste is what hangi is all about, oh and the cabbage leaves that cook crispy in the bottom of the baskets with the pork fat...
prawn_whiskas,
Jan 1, 9:33am
Thats BS isn't it! I don't know anyone who got sick way back when eating REAL hangi!.. I know plenty who poison them selves on a weekly basis with their own cooking at home or eating out at a cafe or restaurant. phhhhh so traditional hangi has succumbed to modern PC bullschite.
coconutbuns,
Jan 1, 6:11pm
I soooooooooooooo want hangi right now! Pork, kumara, stuffing, a bit of porkfat, the works! yum yum yummy yum yum
coconutbuns,
Jan 2, 7:39am
Anybody putting on a hangi today? Please invite me. I will even pay you for it! lol
uli,
Jan 2, 9:01am
Looks like "dig your own" coconutbuns :)
uli,
Jan 2, 12:03pm
Hangi weather out there! Who has put one down for Xmas or New Years!
buzzy110,
Jan 2, 3:17pm
lol uli. Things change. My father used to make the best hangi ever and, like you have experienced, stuffing was not part of the deal, nor were containers of anything. Most foods were wrapped in flax, of all things, because that is what was traditional where he learnt.
However, times move on and new inventions (fruit salad tins and tinfoil) mean that more interesting things can go into the hangi. For instance my father adapted and used wire and netting baskets for ease of putting the food in and removing it and wet sacks and I am almost 100% certain his father-in-law (who taught him) didn't have access to those things.
fruitluva2,
Jan 2, 4:08pm
Er, the wire netting basketshave been in use long before the 2nd world war was over.
buzzy110,
Jan 2, 4:24pm
Yes and when you lived 3 days ride to the nearest shop and 3 days back again, flax baskets worked better.
prawn_whiskas,
Jan 2, 5:38pm
Yep thats what I remember, and my Koro was brought up VERY traditional, he would be about 90 by now if he was still alive.
guest,
Jul 3, 2:00pm
Crumbled bread not to fine
Melt onions in butter in a pot one large onion for every loaf of bread , 1/3 pound of butter for very loaf of bread
1 large carrot grated for every loaf of bread
1/2 tsp of each salt and pepper for each loaf of bread
And 1Tbs of mixed herbs for each loaf of bread
The only stuffing recipe :)
guest,
Jul 3, 2:03pm
It's my birthday and my dad is making me hangi can't wait till nits out.
bubbacat1,
Dec 21, 9:25am
I've been asked to make it, im guessing it's just like any ol stuffing for a bird!
jag5,
Dec 21, 10:41am
Generally yes.but I find most of them are fairly dry.don't like dry stuffing.Make it moist and you shouldn't go wrong.Either more butter or eggs, or both.And if you can,fresh herbs rather than dried.Makes a HUGE difference to taste.
shell93,
Dec 21, 4:44pm
my MIL's stuffing is THE BEST! onions apples butter bread and fresh thyme.no real recipie but has to smell right! agree fresh herbs and ya can't go wrong. have seen boiling water added to stuffing at a marae too.never eggs
beblowin,
Jan 1, 8:59pm
try something healthy, butter and eggs are the fattiest thing to put into stuffing even if they taste so good, the best way to make it health is with olive oil, it combines everything together and gives a lovely golden look, can also replace white bread with brown or wholemeal, give it a try.
buzzy110,
Jan 1, 9:05pm
x1
Lol. Did you know that olive oil does not fare well at temperature! And of course butter and eggs are full of fat but they do not make you fat, the is the preserve of the bread.
It is stuffing after all. Don't try jiggle around with something good to make it healthy. Stuffing is not a health food. It is a comfort food, designed to make something delicious even more delicious. Make it tasty because that is heaps more preferable. I like a lot of the suggestions that have gone before. They sound fantastic.
beblowin,
Jan 1, 9:35pm
#9 get out of here, butter makes you fat.if you like your you butter then use it, I use to use the stuff all the time and had a change as its un healthy and suggest you dont knock it till you try oilve oil and it has all the same texture and more flavour than butter, all to there own, have a good new year
qj,
Aug 30, 4:03pm
the best stuffing is with beer, have made it like this for years and it is so yummy.
kayaydyn,
Aug 14, 12:45pm
im maori and have never been able to make a stuffing like my mum, YUMMY, moist, nice flavors, it was just to die for. made it all the time at maraes and some birthdays but could never taste as yummy as mums, just the usual ingridients., bread,onions, salt,thyme,eggs and othr herbs, lovely
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