https://perthisok.com/best-of-wa/aboriginal-experiences-around-perth/
Camping in the bush can be even more exciting if you throw in a game of ‘who can make the best tasting aboriginal food’!
Best to get the recipe first so that you don’t poison yourself! It’s actually really simple as was the lives of those who roamed Australia all those years ago.
Witchetty Grubs
One of the most well known traditional Aboriginal foods is the Australian witchetty grub.
The grub looks like a large white worm which turns into a moth. The adult lays eggs near the wichetty bush, which is a type of wattle tree, and the witchetty grubs feed on this.
The Witchetty grub remains a common snack or meal addition in Australia, and is high in protein and nutrition.
Witchetty grubs formed an important part in the diet of Aboriginal Australians living in the desert. The grubs were cooked on coals or eaten raw.
See who can make the best whitchetty recipie!
Meat
Aboriginals adapted to their environment and hunted kangaroos and emus. You can find kangaroo meat in the supermarket these days. It is very nutritious and also very healthy. You can have it as steaks, minced, in casseroles …..
Kangaroo Recipes
Snakes and moths are not quite as popular but worth a try 😁
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/top-10-musttry-australian-foods-flavorverse–567312884321325565/
Sea Food
There is plenty of food in coastal areas. Seafood and fish formed part of the diet of the groups living there.
But, for those living in remote areas inland, finding food was a hard daily task.
Plant Food
Aboriginal Australians ate roots, seeds, berries, yams and honey. Whatever they could find in the bush that day.
They didn’t raise cattle or cultivate the land but they had a strong knowledge of the environment and how to benefit from it.
They developed the knowledge to survive and passed it down from one generation to the other.
They knew how to find water in the desert. They knew which plants and what parts of them were edible. They knew what was the right time to harvest them and how to prepare them.
Not all plants are good to eat and some of them are toxic. And among those poisonous some can still be eaten if you know when to pick them and how to prepare them, how to keep the good and remove the bad.
Be extra careful of mushrooms as these can be delicious or lethal 😮
Nuts about Nuts
Macadamias are native plants that produce excellent nuts. They are a delicacy, eaten as such or used in various recipes. And they are the only indigenous Australian plant to become a big food item internationally.
The macadamia nuts oil is one of the healthiest choices you can make. It has high levels of mono-unsaturated fats, even more so than in olive oil.
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