6 Native Ingredients To Incorporate Into Your Cooking

6 native Australian ingredients to incorporate into your cooking

by Lee Holmes May 5, 2021

6 native Australian ingredients to incorporate into your cooking

By: Lee Holmes

We take a look at our favourite native ingredients, from macadamias to finger limes and kakadu plums, and test your cooking skills with two yummy recipes!

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Ingredients

2 frozen ripe bananas
1 cup frozen blueberries
¼ cup chilled coconut milk
1 tsp Kakadu plum powder (gubinge)
1 tsp vanilla extract or fresh vanilla
Mint leaves and pistachios to decorate

Method

Whizz bananas, blueberries and coconut milk, Kakadu plum powder and vanilla in food processor until creamy; add more coconut milk if needed to get a smooth consistency.
Serve in bowls and decorate with mint leaves and pistachios.

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#Tags: cooking, food, indigenous, kakadu plum, native ingredients

Lee Holmes

Lee Holmes is a nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef, Lifestyle Food Channel’s Healthy Eating Expert, blogger and author of the best-selling books Supercharged Food: Eat Your Way to Health, Supercharged Food: Eat Yourself Beautiful, Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian, Heal your Gut, Eat Right for Your Shape and Supercharged Food for Kids.

Lee’s food philosophy is all about S.O.L.E. food: sustainable, organic, local and ethical. Her main goal is to alter the perception that cooking fresh, wholesome, nutrient-rich meals is difficult, complicated and time-consuming. From posting recipes, her passion to share her autoimmune disease story and help others has snowballed and the blog has recently taken home the overall prize at the Bupa Health Influencer Awards as well as the best blog in the Healthy Eating category. She also runs a four-week online Heal Your Gut program.