Fish Malaikari with Native Australian Ingredients

Anindya Sundar Basu
1 min readMar 2, 2021

We received this beautiful box of ingredients from Tourism Australia. The box was put together by Himanshi Munshaw Luhar of Foodie Trails, a cultural and food experience curator. It’s a box with Native Australian ingredients, some of which I had heard of and some completely new. Ingredients like old man sat bush, mountain pepperberry, lemon myrtle, kakadu plum, finger lime and so many more just piqued our interest. There was a booklet covering recipes from several renowned chefs using these ingredients. The box also came with a leaflet explaining the individual ingredient and their flavour profile and nutritional value, which was a novel idea.

The challenge was to create a popular dish using these ingredients and we aimed for making malaikari with Old man Salt bush, Cinnamon myrtle, quandong, lemon myrtle and other ingredients. Try this out and let us know how it was —

Link — https://pikturenama.com/how-to-use-native-australian-ingredients/

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Anindya Sundar Basu

Food and Travel writer, professional food photographer from Kolkata. My work can be found at award winning blog www.pikturenama.com