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There are many species of native mint in the Australian natives, they are all wild-harvested. Some, like River Mint have a strong spearmint taste and aroma, whereas the Round-leaf or Bush Mint is more like your traditional mint with a slight aromatic edge. The early settlers used Australian native mints to make mint sauce for their Sunday roast lamb. This native bushfood herb is just as versitile as the traditional mints and can be replaced by them, use a little until you get used to the strong minty flavour. OutbackChef's Wild Mint & Lavender Tea is a perfect way to enjoy a quiet cuppa in the afternoon, made with Australian grown green tea and beautifully packaged this tea makes a wonderful gift for someone special. -
Peppermint Gum has a strong, robust and packs a punch with boths it's aromatic flavour and aroma. This bushfood herb is a great bush medicine for coughs and colds, just put some in hot water and enhale the fumes. These dried and milled leaves can be used to flavour any dish that requires a peppermint edge. This bush botanical is now used by many Australian chefs as well as in the distilling industry to give a distinctly Australian flavoured drink. -
TASMANIAN PEPPERLEAF, Soft, peppery and aromatic
Wild Australian Pepper, both the leaf and berries, come from the alpine areas of Tasmania and North East Victoria
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LEMON MYRTLE A WILD AUSTRALIAN NATIVE HERB
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TRY THIS WATTLESEED CHOC CHIP COOKIE RECIPE
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STRAWBERRY GUM HAS A COMPLEX STRAWBERRY, EUCALYPT, SPICY FLAVOUR & AROMA
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I love all things liquorice or aniseed and Anise myrtle is just that in Australian native herb form
Known lovingly as Aniseed myrtle, this dried and milled leaf is a fantastic addition to any dish requiring an aniseed flavour. Use instead of Star Anise or even Pernod. The flavour diminishes if you cook too long, so like with many herbs add to your dish at the end of the cooking, this Australian native dried leaf won't disappoint. A great addition to a salad, Thai style food or seafood. If you love "all things" aniseed, which I do, Anise myrtle is a great one to have in your kitchen pantry Remember, as with all herbs and spices, whilst they look fantastic on show in the kitchen, the best place to store it is in a dry, dark, cool space. -
Australian Pepperberries add a flavour punch to your grinder with this peppery combo Tasmanian Pepperberries join forces with Green, Pink, White and Black Peppercorns to create a high-spirited palette of colour and flavour for more lively, aromatic excitement. -
This hamper contains Davidson Plum Jam Lilli Pilli syrup River Mint & Lavender Tea Wild lemon Grass & Ginger Tea Australian grown black tea and Strawberry Gum Australian grown green tea, lemon myrtle and ginger Outback Bush Curry Aboriginal designer journal Please note that you can add to your hamper with any other products on this website and we will add them into your specialty hamper. If products specified in the hamper are out of stock, we will substitute with a similar product of the same or great price. -
Lemon myrtle the "Queen" of the bushfood industry
has been used for food, in cosmetics, insect repellants as bush medicine and much more. Probably the best known bush herb, this fantastic leaf has a strong lemon citrus flavour and aroma, great for adding some great flavour to any dish -
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Wild Australian Finger limes
Finger Limes come in a variety of colours from bright green to corals, reds and champagne colours.
Finger Limes are Australia's native citrus. The bright greens are quite tart in flavour, the pinks and reds are a lot less tart. -
A great hamper for the those with the entertaining spirit! -
For the BBQ entertainer, this combo of bush food spices is ready to use and ready to create. -
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Muntries were eaten by Aboriginal people in the south east of South Australia. They would eat them fresh or dry them out to preserve; they could then be ground into a paste, mix with dampers or eat as a leather. They contain up to four times more antioxidants than blueberries and provide natural waxes that are good for skin nourishment. -
This hamper is full of the great flavour of the Australian bush with a touch of the exotic. -
Gumbi Gumbi Pittosporum angustifolium is a small weeping tree growing in inland Australia. Common names include Weeping Pittosporum, Butterbush, Cattle Bush, Native Apricot, Cumby Cumby, Meemee and Berriga. An important Bush Medicine plant and know by Aboriginal people for generations as a cure-all. -
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Davidsonia pruriens Aboriginal name " Ooray" A tart flavoured dark red plum, great for jams and conserves, making sauces to go with beef or kangaroo, a bush fruit known for it's health benefits, much research is currently being done Davidson Plum is a small, narrow, rainforest tree which bears an edible plum with purple-black skin. If you want to give your jams and chutneys a truly gourmet Australian food flavour, these bush fruits are perfect. Great to make jam with and because of it's dark red colouring can be used to colour and flavour sauces, ice-cream an drinks. -
Australian's native Superfood, black wattleseed. Wattleseed straight from the pod. Wattle seed has a nutty,chocolate flavour when roasted and ground, while we sell it roasted and ground I've now got many customer who want to try and roast and grind to their own specifications. There are many different species of Wattleseed growing throughout Australia, most are edible, but remember some are not, so if you're not sure get some expert advice to find out if it's edible or not. For wattleseed recipe ideas http://www.outbackchef.com.au/recipes/ This particular species of wattle seed is Acacia accuminata and it's from Western Australia. -
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Australian native lime, similar to a lime-cumquat in flavour. Recipe Idea: Apricot & Sunrise Lime Conserve with Anise Myrtle -
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These blood red limes have a soft-sweet limey flavour. Available frozen. -
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Desert Limes are a small fruit about the size of a grape with a wonderful "limey" flavour Australian Desert Lime or Wild limes have an intense lime flavour without the tart edge that traditional limes have, I can eat them quiet easily alone. Like all limes they are extremely versatile. There are a number of native limes that have been developed, the Desert Lime being one of them. Wild Limes were used as a food source by Indigenous people, the easy pioneers to Australia harvested them for use in jams and preserves and they are now an extremely popular lime on many restaurant menus. -
From Seeds to Leaves, by Doug & Robin Stewart. "This book is a must-have for anyone who is keen to preserve our native environment" Jamie Durie -
Hand-cut quandong stones or seeds for craft-work or cultivating. These have all been hand-cut so there is no blemishes on the stones at all. Quandongs are a native to Australia, they prosper in a hot dry climate. Many of the quandong stones are now machine cut to get the fruit off the stone, this often impacts on the stone themselves with cut marks. All stones that I have available have been carefully hand-cut. -
A traditional bushfood treat, early pioneer's used Rosella to made jams. Not officially a native of Australia, as the Rosella plant is found in Taiwan and many Asian countries. -
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Davidson Plums have tart plum flavour rich in zinc, Vit E and calcium plus lutein for eye health. This is a highly concentrated powder. Davidson Plum is a deep purple very tart and acidic fruit eaten by the coastal Aboriginal people. Davidson Plum is higher in lutein than avocados, lutein is an important vitamin for eye health by improving the symptoms in atrophic age-related degeneration by inhibiting inflammation. They were used frequently by the early pioneers to make jams and preserves. OutbackChef now makes a popular fruit paste with these plums. Davidson Plums may have an anti diabetic effect and may have the capacity to reduce hypertension and obesity. Extensive research has been done into Davidson Plums...and I'm quoting directly from "The Health Aspects of Australian Native Food" , research done through Australian Government's Rural Industries Research and Development Corporation, 2009.....further information of this species and other native foods can be found on our blog.....Anthocyanins are plant pigments responsible for the red, purple and blue colours of fruits and vegetables. they are an increasingly important group of natural food colorants.In Davidson’s Plums, anthocyanins were the major phenolic compounds detected.The total amount of anthocyanins in Davidsonia jerseyana was 98.6 mg C3G/g DW and in Davidsonia pruriens was 47.8 mg C3G/g DW (Table 1). The observed differences could be due to cultivar specificity and/or fruit maturity. Other components found in small amounts included myricetin, rutin and quercetin hexoside. Anthocyanins are potent antioxidants and a range of health benefits arising from their consumption have been reported, such as anti-diabetic effects [21] and reduction of obesity [22]. Cyanidin 3- sambubioside isolated from flowers of Hibiscus sabdariffa L. induced apoptosis (programmed cell death, known also as cell suicides) of cancer cells in vitro (cell culture studies) [23].Table 3. Major phenolic compounds identified in selected native Australian fruitsT- traces; P – possible (confirmation required) * This extract contained components that require further investigation in order to establish their identity. Major peaks in the extract exhibited m/z 682 (fragments: 454, 438), m/z 454 (fragments 182, 210, 226), m/z 334 (fragment 164).Based on the high level of anthocyanins in the flesh, the potential application of Davidson’s Plum as a source of a natural food colour with health-enhancing properties for a wide application in beverages and confectionery might be considered. -
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100% Australian grown olives with our own native bushtucker Desert Limes -
Bush Tomato or Desert Raisin Relish, perfect relish for your true-blue Aussie Hamburger
This relish made from Australian Bush Tomatoes, Solanum centrale, called Desert Raison's by the early settlers are a low desert shrub.
When the Bush Tomato fruit turns from green to red and drops to the ground it's ready for eating. A popular food source of Australia's indigenous people for generations. This relish is the perfect way to enjoy the unique flavour of the bush tomato. Whilst they are related to tomatoes (Solanum lycopersicum) they could possibly be even a closer relation to the eggplant (S.melongena) which they have many details in common. Bush tomatoes taste like a sun dried tomato with caramel overtones, they can be quite bitter if too large a quantity is used in cooking. Consider them like a spice rather than as a fresh tomato. -
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