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New Zealand · Food · Hard
What is the name of the traditional Māori method for preserving mutton birds (tītī), where the birds are cooked in their own fat and sealed inside bags made from bull kelp?
Answer: Poha tītī — Mutton birds (sooty shearwaters) are harvested by Rakiura Māori on the Tītī Islands each autumn and traditionally packed inside pōhā — inflated kelp bags — where the rendered fat preserves the cooked birds for months.
- A Hāngī manu
- B Kānga wai
- C Rourou
- D Poha tītī ✓
Mutton birds (sooty shearwaters) are harvested by Rakiura Māori on the Tītī Islands each autumn and traditionally packed inside pōhā — inflated kelp bags — where the rendered fat preserves the cooked birds for months.