Boil Up Recipe

Boil Up is a traditional method of cooking used by Maori’s in New Zealand where starchy vegetables such as sweet potatoes, potatoes, carrots, pumpkins are boiled together with pork bones, spinach/watercress and dumplings called dough boys.

The first time I saw this I thought my office mate knew how to cook nilagang baboy as it looks nearly similar. I then asked him what was it and he said it was “boil up”, a simple boiled pork bones with potatoes. He then told me it’s a popular traditional Maori dish that they cook at home once in a while. In Philippines most probably if you cook this people will try to pair it with rice but here since it already contains all of the important food groups like your carbs, proteins and fibre a rice…