HANGI
What is a Hungi?
a pit in which food is cooked on heated stones.
the food cooked in a hangi.
a meal or gathering at which food is cooked in a hangi and served.
A Hungi is a feast for a maori traditional celebration.
They celebrate matariki and when they have a hungi they will normally wait for it.
List 2 other cultures that cook food in the ground?
Maori Hangi
Samoans potato
Tongans beef
How to make a hangi?
- Dig a hangi pit
- Stack wood and iron or large stones inside hangi pit
- Light fire burn for 3 hours - 3 and a half hours.
- When wood is burnt to embers remove all contents from hangi pit.
- Placing back into the hangi pit the red hot iron or stones.
- Putting hangi baskets on top of irons or stones
- Spread cabbage leaves over hangi baskets
- Cover with wet sacks.
- Shovel on dirt on top of sacks to stop steam escaping
- Seal tightly
- wait for cooking to finish 3 hours - 3 and a half hours.
What foods are often cooked in a hangi?
- Pig
- Potatoes
- Chicken
- Fish
- Kumara
- Pork
- Lamb
- Stuffing
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