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 Tahi Bay Oil
NZ$10.95
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.
Toru Road Horopito Dukkah
NZ$8.95 - NZ$15.95
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 Horopito 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 Tracey's sis Frances does, as salt and pepper.
Toru Road Kai brings healthy and wholesome kai to your table.
Toru Road Kalamata Olives
NZ$8.95
Toru Road Kalamata Olives
Kalamata Olives, extra virgin olive oil, water, bay leaves. garlic, rosemary, fennel, salt
In our view the best olives are kalamata olives! We've packed kalamata olives with herbs into 180grams recyclable glass jars which are ready to serve from the jar at the table. Once opened leave the bay leaves and the oil - you can use that later for cooking in another dish. Refrigerate after opening.
Toru Road Sundried Tomatoes in EV Olive Oil
NZ$8.95
Sundried tomatoes stored in extra virgin olive oil, pickling spices and organic rosemary have been packed in 200gram jars ready to serve at the table, place on your platter board, or to add as an ingredient to your dish.
Toru Road Kai brings healthy and wholesome kai to your table.
Toru Road Organic Kawakawa Tea Leaves
NZ$8.95
Aotearoa's own Heart-Shaped Tea
Organic kawakawa tea 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.
"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.