Kia ora and welcome to Toru Road!
Bringing people together is the key ingredient in the establishment of Toru Road and good food is the basis of this.
Toru Road Kai brings healthy and wholesome kai to your table.
Toru Road Kai brings healthy and wholesome kai to your table.
Toru Road Platter Board Bundle (50% off)
NZ$7.00 - NZ$99.00
Our popular Toru Road Platter Board Bundle is selling quick! Loads of our Toru Road Kai goods are included in this bundle and are all ready to present on a specially designed Toi Kupu Gallery kai platter board. You just need the occasion! You get all this deliciousness in your bundle:
- Toi Kupu Gallery Kai Platter Board
- Toru Road Kale & Kawakawa Pesto (rua size)
- Toru Road Horopito Dukkah (pepe size)
- Toru Road Tahi Bay Oil 500ml
- Toru Road Pitted Kalamata Olives (rua size)
- Toru Road Sundried Tomatoes (rua size)
- A small loaf of batch-produced bread
- Vegan-friendly crackers
- Two dipping bowls
- Toru Road e-recipe booklet
- Cheat sheet on how to set up your Toru Road Kai platter board
- PLUS Free delivery across Wellington and the Kapiti Coast. Orders outside of this area exclude the pesto & bread due to delivery of fresh items, however we will pop in a packet of our organic dehydrated lemon or orange slices - perfect addition to a Summer beverage.
Each of the Toi Kupu Gallery designed kai platter boards has the word KAI engraved on it. Each board is 35cm x 21cm with a special lip of the board to contain your kai.
The bundle also comes with the Toru Road e-recipe booklet which has recipes that use the products, and has information on some of the benefits of the ingredients in our healthy kai, as well as a cheat sheet on how to set up your Toru Road Kai platter board!
Toru Road Kai Platter Board Bundle can also be gift wrapped.
Toru Road Kai brings healthy and wholesome kai to your table.
Combo Deal - Toru Road Horopito Dukkah & Toru Road Tahi Bay Oil
NZ$16.95
NZ$14.95
It takes two/rua
Grab a yourself a combo deal of Horopito Dukkah Rua size (80 grams) and Tahi Bay Oil (500mls) and a get yourself a really nice fresh loaf of bread and make yourself, and ok maybe your friends and whānau, a posh-as platter board!
Toru Road Kai brings healthy and wholesome kai to your table.
Toru Road Horopito Dukkah
NZ$4.95 - NZ$12.95
Ruku/Dive into our Dukkah
Almonds, Walnuts, Sesame Seeds, Poppy Seeds, Cumin, Coriander, Fennel, Salt, and Horopito.
Dry-roasted nuts, seeds, and spices are combined with the aromatics of horopito - a traditional plant used to improve gut health. Our whānau's most favourite way to use Horopito Dukkah is on a platter that has three things (fresh bread that you can slice or pull apart, a delicious extra virgin olive oil like our Tahi Bay Oil, and our Horopito Dukkah). Dab a piece of fresh bread into some Tahi Bay Oil, and then into the Horopito Dukkah - it is the perfect pick me up and you don't even realise it's good for your puku.
You can use dukkah as a crumb on your vegetables, protein, or ika/fish, tasty as over hummus, or shakshukah (middle-eastern eggs in a tomato base), or sprinkle liberally over your kai like salt and pepper.
Toru Road Kai brings healthy and wholesome kai to your table.
Toru Road Tahi Bay Oil
NZ$9.95
Iridescent Karera/Green
Organic bay leaves, extra virgin olive oil
Organic bay leaves have been infused into extra virgin olive oil to create our warm, mild-tempered bay olive oil, that we have named Tahi Bay Oil. It's name is a twist on Titahi Bay, Porirua, where August spent his youth, and also takes into account our brand name Toru - Tahi seems to fit (we just need a Rua Oil now!)
Add some extra depth to your kai with this beautiful green oil. Use it in the same way you would use extra virgin olive oil - its pepper tones are perfect as a salad dressing, drizzled on some warmly baked bread, as a marinade, brushed on vegetables ready for roasting, or as the base for many recipes where you fry off onions, garlic and carrots. And, of course, you can always use it for bread dipping with our Toru Road Horopito Dukkah - wallah, deliciousness.
Toru Road Kai brings healthy and wholesome kai to your table.
Organic bay leaves, extra virgin olive oil
Organic bay leaves have been infused into extra virgin olive oil to create our warm, mild-tempered bay olive oil, that we have named Tahi Bay Oil. It's name is a twist on Titahi Bay, Porirua, where August spent his youth, and also takes into account our brand name Toru - Tahi seems to fit (we just need a Rua Oil now!)
Add some extra depth to your kai with this beautiful green oil. Use it in the same way you would use extra virgin olive oil - its pepper tones are perfect as a salad dressing, drizzled on some warmly baked bread, as a marinade, brushed on vegetables ready for roasting, or as the base for many recipes where you fry off onions, garlic and carrots. And, of course, you can always use it for bread dipping with our Toru Road Horopito Dukkah - wallah, deliciousness.
Toru Road Kai brings healthy and wholesome kai to your table.
Toru Road Vegan Kale & Kawakawa Pesto
NZ$7.95 - NZ$12.95
Te Kuīni/Queen of Greens
Kale, kawakawa, sunflower seeds, extra virgin olive oil, Good Oil rapeseed oil, salt.
Need to get more healthy greens into you that actually tastes great! Our vegan pesto combines kale with sunflower seeds and its the first of our kai that incorporates our own indigenous ingredient of kawakawa.
A coarsely made pesto (at the request of Tracey's son Keenau to "make it more meaty" - even though he's vegan!) Made in small batches to order ready for your weekend with whānau and friends to enjoy. As a sauce for your pasta, dolloped on top of your protein or vegetables, on the side with your cooked breaky, or as a feel good dip. This fresh-as deliciousness, with no preservatives, all natural, wholesome goodness will stay fresh in the fridge for two weeks.
Toru Road Kai brings healthy and wholesome kai to your table.
Please note the delivery options below. Chilled pesto is not available to be delivered to some parts of Aotearoa.
Toru Road Kai brings healthy and wholesome kai to your table.
Organic Kawakawa Tea Leaves
NZ$6.95
Aotearoa's own Heart-Shaped Tea
Organic kawakawa leaves
Singularly handpicked organic kawakawa tea leaves have been dried and packed ready for your kaputī. Just add one kawakawa leaf to your cup, add boiling water, and if you like, 1/2 teaspoon of honey, a slice of citrus, and/or ginger, and start the day off right over a nice cuppa that's good for your tinana/body. Makes 20 tea cups per packet.
Toru Road Kai brings healthy and wholesome kai to your table.
Toru Road Tiakarete Chocoholic Granola
NZ$9.95 - NZ$18.95
Tiakarete Chocolate Granola
Wholegrain oats, rolled oats, walnuts, almonds, sunflower seeds, pumpkin seeds, coconut chips, sultanas, premium cocoa, cacao nibs, NZ Manuka Honey, almond oil, extra virgin olive oil, cinnamon, salt, and rose petals.
The thinking behind our Chocoholic Granola was to make it healthy, tasty, and yes pretty! The really long list of natural ingredients means that this granola fills you up with proper food. No added sugar, no artificial colours or flavours! Cacao gives you the burst of energy to keep you going, and the addition of the rose petals satisfies Tracey's wish for it to be, her word, pretties!
We have a whānau size 500g bag which is generally larger than what's available on the supermarket shop, and at the request of some of our whānaunga we've made a big pāpā 1kg size so that they always have stock in supply.
Toru Road Kai brings healthy and wholesome kai to your table.
Toru Road Parakuihi Breakfast Pack
NZ$39.95
Our Parakuihi Breakfast Pack is the perfect Kirihimete gift. Full of wholesome kai. Each Parakuihi Breakfast Pack includes:
- 500g Toru Road Tiakarete Chocoholic Granola
- Organic Toru Road Loose Leaf Kawakawa Tea
- Organic Dehydrated Lemon or Orange Slices
- Loose Tea Infuser
- Kuputī Instructions
- Parakuihi pack presented in a Bamboo Box ready for gifting
- PLUS Free delivery across Wellington and the Kapiti Coast (or a $10 flat fee shipping charge across Aotearoa).
Toru Road Kai brings healthy and wholesome kai to your table.
"I so love the Toru Road Kale & Kawakawa Pesto! It’s so delicious & versatile!
Any other pesto now just doesn’t cut it for me! Keep up the great work Toru Road!"
Dee McRae, Kaukapakapa. January 2021
Any other pesto now just doesn’t cut it for me! Keep up the great work Toru Road!"
Dee McRae, Kaukapakapa. January 2021
Toru Road Events and Toru Road Props Hire
Toru Road Events and Toru Road Props Hire are an extension of Toru Road with the same ethos, having whanau and friends in one place is always a celebration and Toru Road has created some bespoke events. Check out our events page to find out more.
With an events management background, Tracey looks forward to bringing you news of some exciting events that she is working on.
Running numerous events often means finding some awesome props. Check out our props for hire, we are adding to our stock all the time.
ABOUT US
Tracey is the owner of Toru Road and like many of us there are two things she loves most, firstly whānau, and always always good food. Getting the whānau together to share kai is a joy!
A few years ago Tracey started moving into eating healthy food, trying out vegan, organic, more wholesome and more natural foods. Buying a bunch of kale was at the top of the list - that's healthy right? Not enjoying the taste of that kale made her think that she could probably eat it if it was hidden in a pesto. Kale Pesto was born and is now a staple in her household, no longer hidden its the forefront of our business. Toru Road Kale & Kawakawa Pesto was the beginning of the Toru Road journey for her and her whānau.
A few years ago Tracey started moving into eating healthy food, trying out vegan, organic, more wholesome and more natural foods. Buying a bunch of kale was at the top of the list - that's healthy right? Not enjoying the taste of that kale made her think that she could probably eat it if it was hidden in a pesto. Kale Pesto was born and is now a staple in her household, no longer hidden its the forefront of our business. Toru Road Kale & Kawakawa Pesto was the beginning of the Toru Road journey for her and her whānau.