3 dishes people actually cook in Australia: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.
What can you cook from Australia? 3 traditional Australia dishes, from Barramundi (30 min, the quickest) to Lamingtons (1025 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.
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Australia's signature fish is cooked skin-down on the barbecue until the skin shatters, then perfumed with lemon myrtle and paperbark smoke.
Squares of day-old butter sponge dunked in a thin cocoa icing that soaks into the crumb, then rolled in coconut.
A hand-sized pie with a shortcrust base and a puff pastry lid, filled with beef in gravy thick enough to hold its shape when you bite it.
Copper documents three dishes from Australia: Barramundi, Lamingtons and Meat pie. Two of the three are baked. Two of the three need an oven. Between them they use 31 different ingredients.
The three recipes need 31 ingredients between them, of which 1 is shared by more than one dish. Copper's atlas covers 586 dishes from 198 countries, and these three are the Australia entries. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.
Barramundi is the quickest at 30 minutes. Lamingtons is the longest at 1025 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 310 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.
Barramundi is rated easy — start there. The full method is on its recipe page, step by step, free to read.
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