Hangi report :)

 Fried bread 

Last week our class (Nga Here Kahikatea) was privileged enough to prepare a hangi at the whare Manaaki which is located across the road from the Salvation Army, The whare manaaki is a community place run by Eli Maiava one of the parents at Grey High and a big part of our community! When we got there, Eli welcomed us with big arms and a loving personality. Once we had finished introducing ourselves, we split into groups and had about 2-3 adults helping each group. I voluntarily chose to be in the fried bread group with one of my best friends Autumn. In our group we had me, Autumn, Haley, Tiana and Matua Joe. We also had Ms Quick observing for a bit.

An important part and I might just say the most delicious part of the hangi is the fried bread,the fried bread is consisted of Flour, Baking powder and water while adding all these ingredients over and over again it will start to form a sticky blob while we left the blob to dry out a bit we started filling the frying pans with oil and lots of it but we had to make sure that it was on the second highest setting it had which in our case it was four while we left the oil to heat up we started cutting the blobs into squares by the time we finished that the oil was ready, we started putting five squares of bread in each pan we had to wait until they had risen and turned darker by that time we would flip then over to get both the sides ready!

After making about six batches we were finally done then we had to divide the bread as we wanted some then and some for the hangi after doing that I saw the bread for about two seconds and then they were gone!