What are some popular australian foods?

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Elizabeth

These are my personal favourites.
Meat pies - individual covered pastry (pie) filled with spicy beef.
Lamingtons - cubes of plain cake approx 2 inches square, dipped in runny chocolate icing (frosting) and then rolled in desiccated coconut. Best made with day old cake.
Lots of seafood.
Fish and chips. The fish is coated in batter and deep fried. Chips are thicher than french fries but cooked the same way.
Lots of salads and fruit.
Pavlova (known as Pav) is a dessert, it is a large meringue (dinner plate size) served cold and topped with fresh fruit salad and whipped cream. Before you bake it, you make a large hollow in the centre so that when it's cooked there is somewhere to place the fruit salad and cream.
Here is a site for a Pavlova recipe and it has a link for converting to USA measurements and temperatures.
http://www.cheap-and-easy-recipes.com/individual-recipes/pavlova.htm
Damper is easy - Take 2 cups of Self Raising flour, mix in enough milk or water to make a stiff dough lump. Turn onto a baking slide and bake in a moderate oven until golden brown. I think it's best served warm, slice it up and top with butter and honey, golden syrup, treacle or jam (jelly). It was an easy substitute for bread when out in the bush.
Lamb chops, steak, pork chops and chicken.
Sausages but not like Italian sausage. They are more like minced (ground) beef or pork or chicken mixture in a skin and cooked on the BBQ grill.
Vegemite is best used very, very sparingly on buttered bread. It is an aquired taste. I like it but many Aussies don't. You never ever spread it thickly.
Personally, I don't know anyone who eats kangaroo, emu or crocodile on a regular basis.

Edit: I nearly forgot Sunday brunch of bacon, eggs, grilled tomato and mushrooms with toast. For my husband add baked beans.

lala

Don't listen to the stupid person saying we eat emu eggs!
We Don't!

Well..
-Vegemite is very australian
-Pies
-BBQ/ sausages, steak ect
-Fish&chips
-Bacon & eggs
-Seafood
-Pavlova
-Lamingtins
-Tim-Tams
-Anzac biscuits

and more!
search it on google too find some more popular australian foods :)

Sophie

Why do Americans who know nothing answer these questions? No we don't eat kangaroo generally. That's seen as pretty barbaric. And the 'shrimp on the barbie' is also a stereotype, I've never eaten shrimp on a barbie.

Generally, we have lots of barbecues, but Australia is a relatively new country and is still developing a style of cooking.

haaraboy

Sea food is huge down under :S

rustupd

we will eat near anything once to see if we like it

me i like
meat pies with tomato sauce(can buy anyplace)
hamburgers(not that Mcdonald crap)
fish & chips
roast meat(lamb/beef/pork/chicken)with spuds & veggies
sandwich(meat & salad)
toast with jam
steak/chops
all normal food

Partyoffive

Australians do not generally eat kangaroo - although we serve it to tourists - lol - who eat it gladly - blah!

We like our lamb roasts, bbqs are very popular with steak, sausages and salads. We love curries - esp thai curries. I would say we are very diverse in our food consumption. We do not stick to one type of food.

My personal favourite is seafood - prawns, crabs, salmon - yum.

rainman

Everyone I know in Australia orders mainly one thing... Steak. Breakfast- godd old bacon and eggs

Chris

Shepards Pie...its very popular!

gl on the report

chris ;)

Power Flower

vegemite
lamingtons
kangaroo sausages
big, fresh juicy tiger/king prawns
beer battered fish
meat pie

I see most people are down on kangaroo.... it's only recently become widely available in supermarkets and my kids just love it! We have it at least once a week.

Simon S

Steak
Sausages
Lamingtons (Like a little sponge cake covered in coco and grated coconut)
Pavlova (hard to explain, just awsome)
noobs (i eat em for Breakfast)
Kangaroo (not real popular, i have had it once)
Crocadile (Never Had it)
Big Mac

tamara m

I can tell somebodies been reading "Australian" cookbooks!
Traditional Australian dishes include
Pavlova- meringue topped with whipped cream and fresh fruit
Lamingtons- spongecake coated on all sides with chocolate and dipped in coconut while the chocolate is still wet (very messy to make)
individual meat pies with tomato sauce
sausages (very poular on the barbie)
prawns (you call them shrimp)
Vegimite (made by Kraft, declining in popularity due to going offshore and I've heard it was taken off shelves in America due to containing a certain ingredient)
Fairy Bread (for childrens parties- white bread spread with butter and sprinkled with hundreds and thousands and cut into triangles)

Those are the foods popular in the suburban regions.
Bush foods also include
Damper (like bread)
Rosella( a type of fruit)
wattle seed(used for flavoring)
Lemon Myrtle (used for flavoring)
Kangaroo meat
crocodile meat
camel meat

Riding the wind

* anzac biscuits
* apricot jam
* apricot jam with a twist
* apricot crisp
* australian cheesecake
* Bacon and Egg Pie
* bananas on the barbie
* BBQ meat patties (with kangaroo)
* carrot and cheese salad
* coconut jam tart
* cornbread with sweet potato
* damper
* golden syrup dumplings
* kangaroo fillets
* lamingtons
* lasagna with corn and spinach
* lasagna with sweet potato & pumpkin
* pasties
* pavlova
* pepper crusted lamb with plum chutney
* potato dumplings
* potato salad Australian style
* potato salad with sausage skewers
* quince - baked
* quince and chilies salsa
* quince pickles
* quince marmalade
* Fruity-Veggie Cake
* simnel cake
* soldier biscuits
* steak and kidney pie
* steamed jam pudding
* stewed lamb chops
* wattle seed pavlova
* yabbie (prawn) fettuccine
* zucchini and vegetable slice

A lot of lamb and cow are used since they have abundant land to herd them.

z_i_p_p_y

kangaroo tail

wombat stew

emu eggs

Kicker

Im pretty sure kangaroo

ps-ok everyone is mad at me I see. I said pretty sure not 100% grrr

Cody S

Vegemite like pb and j only with vegetables and it taste like ****

MS43

Well I think they eat a lot of sasauge but i dont really know

Sir Godfrey, the Baron of Ibelin

Kangaroo. They eat kangaroo right?

Monica Deangelo

Vegemite. But don't ever eat it.

Otherwise it's pretty American.

Lt. Guidestone

The first thing that comes to mind is, of course, Vegemite. My wife's relatives from down under brought some over during one of their visits. As I remember, comes in a can, and Campbell was the brand. It's a spread that they use like we use peanut butter; on crackers, sandwiches, etc. Definitely an acquired taste.

Ansel

Kangaroo.
Good luck finding some, though.
If you can't, BBQ shrimp.
BBQ anything, really.

Try to find some Vegemite, it's highly unlikely that you will in the states, but it's really popular down under. It's a spreadable topping they put on toast and crackers and stuff. It's wicked salty (and not really that good) but they love it.

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