This has to be one of the New Zealand Food Recipes all time favourite Food Recipes. It does not fall under the Healthy Food Recipes guidlines but it is one you must try. You do not need to need to be able to Cook like in the Chef Food Videos but you need a little time effort and you will master this yummy desert.

Prep time: 40 minutes

Cook time: 1 hour

Servings: 1 pavlov

Ingredients:

3 Egg Whites

1 cup caster sugar

1 teaspoon vinegar

1 tablespoon cornflour

1 teaspoon vanilla essence

Directions:

Beat egg whites until stiff (forms peaks). Add sugar – heaped tablespoon at a time – beating well after each addition. Then beat for at least 10 minutes. This is very important. Then sprinkle vinegar, cornflour and vanilla essense into mixture. Beat until blended.

Coat baking paper with water drops to allow baking paper to stick to sides of tin and pile pavlova mixture in 20cm circle.

Heat oven until 300°F (or 150°C). Put pav in oven and immediately turn oven down to 250°F (or 125°C) and leave for 1 hour. Then turn oven off and leave in oven until cold. (Usually overnight). This makes a nice crust on outside of pav.

Before serving, cover pav in whipped cream and decorate with your favourite fruit.

What is New Zealand Food and How are our Food Recipes Influenced

New Zealander’s come from many ethnic backgrounds, and most immigrants to New Zealand have tried to reproduce their native cuisines or national dishes in New Zealand. Similar to early P?keh? settlers, this often proved difficult. Larger ethnic groups, such as the Chinese, were able to import some ingredients, but often dishes had to be modified to use local ingredients. Ethnic restaurants have served as community meeting places and have also given other New Zealander’s a chance to try different cuisines. However for most of its history there were few ethnic restaurants in New Zealand other than inauthentic Chinese, Indian and Italian eateries.