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Australian cuisine is the food and cooking practices of Australia and its inhabitants. Australia has absorbed culinary contributions and adaptations from various cultures around the world, including British , European , Asian and Middle Eastern .
Breakfast. Common breakfast/brunch dish consisting of avocado on toast, often sourdough. It can be served mashed (‘smashed avo’) or sliced with a variety of additions; commonly including poached eggs, feta (often goat's), lemon, lime, tomato, pepitas etc. It is a common dish in cafes but also prepared at home.
Vegemite. Vegemite (/ ˈvɛdʒimaɪt / VEJ-ee-myte) [1][2] is a thick, dark brown [3] Australian food spread made from leftover brewers' yeast extract with various vegetable and spice additives. It was developed by Cyril Callister in Melbourne, Victoria, in 1922, and it was first sold in stores on 25 October 1923.
Bush tucker, also called bush food, is any food native to Australia and historically eaten by Indigenous Australians, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, but it can also describe any native flora, fauna, or fungi used for culinary or medicinal purposes, regardless of the continent or culture. Animal native foods include kangaroo ...
Chicken parmigiana was known in Australia by the 1950s, and is often called parma, parmi or parmy in modern Australian parlance; its name varies from region to region. [17] [18] [19] It was offered in restaurants in Adelaide as early as 1953. [20] It is regularly served as a main meal throughout Australia, where it is considered a staple of pub ...
Media: Lamington. A lamington is an Australian cake made from squares of butter cake or sponge cake coated in an outer layer of chocolate sauce and rolled in desiccated coconut. The thin mixture is absorbed into the outside of the sponge cake and left to set, giving the cake a distinctive texture. A common variation has a layer of cream or ...
Australian herbs and spices are generally dried and ground to produce a powdered or flaked spice, either used as a single ingredient or in blends. They were used to a limited extent by colonists in the 18th and 19th centuries. Some extracts were used as flavouring during the 20th century.
Damper is a thick home-made bread traditionally prepared by early European settlers in Australia. [1] It is a bread made from wheat -based dough. Flour, salt and water, [2] with some butter if available, is lightly kneaded and baked in the coals of a campfire, either directly or within a camp oven. [3]