Well we have the traditional kiwi roast ... chicken, beef or lamb with roasted potatoes, kumara (sweet potato), pumpkin, onion and any other vegetable really that you may like - serve with mass amounts of gravy and some steamed veges with cheese sauce on them.
OR, if you want to get really traditional and need to feed large groups of people you can try a hangi ... this is food cooked in the ground .... a traditional maori meal.
You heat up stones or anything really that will hold the heat, prepare the food, anything goes in a hangi, all the food gets put into baskets; chicken, turkey, beef, lamb, and all the veges, cover all with cabbage and tinfoil.
When the stones are red hot, put them in a hole in the ground then put the food on top of them, cover them with damp sheets then fill in the hole in with dirt. After a couple of hours you dig the food out (no dirt gets into it - the sheets and tinfoil prevent this) and BINGO the food is ready to go.
With hangi you either love it or hate it .... I certainly recommend it. My family has a gathering every New Years Day at my Grandmothers farm and we always put down two hangi baskets ... the food is absolutely wonderful all barbequed up the next day too.
