Food of New Zealand
New Zealand's cuisine pairs Maori traditions like the hangi earth oven with British-style baking, fresh seafood, lamb, and excellent dairy. Kumara (sweet potato), paua, green-lipped mussels, and kiwifruit are local stars, and bakery pies, fish and chips, and pavlova are everyday favorites. Cafes make great coffee and brunch.
- Main dishes (9)
- Breakfast (4)
- Street food (4)
- Soups (2)
- Salads (3)
- Breads (3)
- Desserts and sweets (6)
- Drinks (4)
- Fruits and produce (6)
Staples
- lamb, kumara, seafood, dairy, kiwifruit, potatoes
Signature flavors
- manuka honey, horopito, mint, rewena, kawakawa, kumara
Main dishes
Meat and vegetables steamed in an earth oven.
Key ingredients: chicken, pork, kumaraFull guide →Roast lamb with mint sauce.
Key ingredients: lamb, mint sauce
Wrapped hot fish and chips.
Key ingredients: fish, potatoesFull guide →
Large mussels steamed or grilled.
Key ingredients: mussels, garlic, broth
Prized oysters eaten fresh.
Key ingredients: oysters, lemon
Egg patties of tiny fish.
Key ingredients: whitebait, eggs
Maori stew of pork bones and greens with doughboys.
Key ingredients: pork, watercress, dumplings
Fried shellfish patties.
Key ingredients: paua, flour
Maori potato bread, slightly tangy.
Key ingredients: flour, potato starterBreakfast
Small pancakes with butter and jam.
Key ingredients: flour, milk, eggPoached eggs with bacon.
Key ingredients: eggs, baconOats with manuka honey.
Key ingredients: oats, honeySavory pastry pie.
Key ingredients: bacon, egg, pastryStreet food
Mince and cheese pie.
Key ingredients: beef, pastryFull guide →
Pastry-wrapped sausage meat.
Key ingredients: sausage, pastryChunky fries.
Key ingredients: potatoes, saltChocolate-coated chewy candy.
Key ingredients: chocolate, pineappleSoups
Creamy sweet potato soup.
Key ingredients: kumara, cream
Creamy chowder with local seafood.
Key ingredients: fish, cream, potatoesSalads
Roasted kumara with feta.
Key ingredients: kumara, fetaPeppery greens with lemon.
Key ingredients: watercress
Chilled potatoes with mayonnaise.
Key ingredients: potatoes, mayoFull guide →Breads
Deep-fried dough eaten with butter and jam.
Key ingredients: flour, oilMaori potato-starter loaf.
Key ingredients: flour, potatoToasted bread rolls with cheese filling.
Key ingredients: bread, cheeseDesserts and sweets
Meringue topped with cream and fruit.
Key ingredients: egg whites, creamFull guide →
Vanilla ice cream with honeycomb.
Key ingredients: ice cream, honeycomb
Oat and coconut cookies.
Key ingredients: oats, coconut
No-bake cake with colored candies.
Key ingredients: biscuits, condensed milk
Chocolate cornflake cookies.
Key ingredients: cornflakes, cocoaWarm pudding with custard.
Key ingredients: flour, sugarDrinks
Creamy espresso with microfoam.
Key ingredients: espresso, milk
Fizzy lemon soda from Paeroa.
Key ingredients: lemon, sodaBlend of feijoa fruit.
Key ingredients: feijoa, yogurtCreamy cocoa drink.
Key ingredients: cocoa, milkFruits and produce
Famous green and gold fruit.
Key ingredients: eaten freshFull guide →
Fragrant green fruit.
Key ingredients: eaten fresh, in jam
Tangy tree tomato.
Key ingredients: eaten fresh, chutney
Rich honey from manuka flowers.
Key ingredients: on toast, in tea
Crisp Braeburn and Royal Gala.
Key ingredients: eaten fresh
Tart berries for jam.
Key ingredients: jam, dessertsDish guides from New Zealand
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Descriptions written by Intercontinental Chef. Dishes are listed as commonly eaten today; many are shared across neighbouring countries.
- Hangi prepare: Einalem, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Fish and chips blackpool: Matthias Meckel, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Green Lipped Mussel (314300764): Richard Giddins from London, UK, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Naturalis Biodiversity Center - ZMA.MOLL.415097 - Ostrea chilensis Philippi, 1846 - Ostreidae - Mollusc shell: Philippi, 1846, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Gianchetti and poutine: Elisa Prato from Firenze, Italy, CC BY-SA 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Maori boil up: Matyas Havel, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Haliotis iris 01: H. Zell, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Rewena: Groot42, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- MeatPie: Jonathunder, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Sausage roll - One Market, One Garden Brighton (cropped): Andy Li, CC0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Shrimp and corn chowder: Leszek Leszczynski, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Potato salad (1): SajjadF, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Frybread: Unknown, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Pavlova dessert: Hazel Fowler, Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Honeycomb ice cream and hot toffee sauce (5725734559): Ben Sutherland from Crystal Palace, London, UK, CC BY 2.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- ANZAC biscuits (14 April 2006): me (w:User:pfctdayelise), CC BY-SA 2.5 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Lolly cakes 20231119 140506 (cropped): Prosperosity, CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Afghan II MRD: Mike Dickison, CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Flat white coffee with pretty feather pattern: GeorgeMichaelFarewell, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Big Lemon and Paeroa Bottle: Tom Ackroyd, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Actinidia fruits: Crowhurst et al., CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Goiaba-serrana, ou guarobi (do guarani 'fruto verde'), Feijoa sellowiana, em Bagé, RS, Brasil - 55238473195: Gabriel Collares, CC BY 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Solanum betaceum-IMG 0242: C T Johansson, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- Manuka honey in a bowl: Sage Ross, CC BY-SA 3.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
- 95apple: Agricultural Research Service (Research agent of United States Department of Agriculture), Public domain (Wikimedia Commons)
- Boysenberry-LosAngeles2017: Baybay1901, CC BY-SA 4.0 (Wikimedia Commons)
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