Top 61+ best recipes using Australian native ingredients
- Best recipes with native Australian ingredients to cook in 2025
- How to make damper made with wattleseed and bush tomato
- Pepperberry crumpets with whipped balsamic butter
- Barbecued butterflied lamb leg with saltbush rub
- Jock Zonfrillo’s roast turkey with native herbs and spices
- Kylie Kwong’s deep-fried chicken with finger-lime sauce
- Barbecued oysters with finger-lime mignonette
- Lennox Hastie’s grilled kingfish belly, fennel and grilled finger lime
- Sesame kingfish sashimi with ponzu and finger lime
- Buckwheat-hemp crackers with avocado and finger lime
- Jacqui Challinor’s kingfish ceviche with avocado and finger lime
- Seared tuna salad with radish, finger lime and citrus vinaigrette
- Charred prawn sandwich with fennel, lemon myrtle and lime
- Salted-caramel macadamia tart with chocolate ganache
- Macadamia panna cotta by Alberto’s Lounge
- Barbecued quail with grapes, beans and macadamia nuts
- Raes on Wategos’ mango-macadamia popsicles with Piña Colada pineapple
- Jaclyn Koludrovic’s dairy-free macadamia parfait with pineapple, ginger and finger lime
- Cinnamon myrtle-spiced sticky date pudding with macadamia brittle
- Roast pork rack with lemon myrtle and cranberry stuffing
- Kylie Kwong’s wallaby sang choi bau
- Analiese Gregory’s wallaby tartare with anchovy dressing
- Carpaccio of kangaroo with beetroot and native fruits
- Dan Hong’s mud crab with XO sauce
- Blood lime and chilli mud crab
- Escabeche of Murray cod with saffron and currants
- Roast Murray cod with puttanesca butter
- Barbecued barramundi with macadamia romesco
- Wild barramundi, cavolo nero and spanner crab
- Coconut dhal with barramundi
- Barramundi with Grenobloise sauce and colcannon
- Baked barramundi with pepperleaf mayonnaise
- Poached yabbies, sugarcane and coriander vinegar
- Alla Wolf-Tasker’s local yabbies, farm cucumbers, dill and whey dressing
- Kylie Kwong’s stir-fried Australian native greens with garlic
- Helly Raichura’s stir-fried warrigal greens and vegetables (shak bhaja)
Some of the most distinctive and surprising flavours can be found within our own flora. Not to mention the vibrant colours and textures of native Australian ingredients, including finger lime, saltbush, wattleseed, pepperberry, lemon myrtle and macadamia.
These recipes celebrate the flavours of Australia, with native Australian ingredients as the heroes. While First Nations communities have used these Indigenous ingredients for tens of thousands of years, it’s only in recent years that using native Australian ingredients has become popular in restaurants around the country — so much so, in fact, that some native ingredients are more easily sourced and used in home cooking.
From blood lime and chilli mud crab and roasted lemon myrtle-stuffed pork racks to Davidson’s plum cocktails and sticky date puddings with cinnamon myrtle and macadamia brittle, here are our best recipes that hero native Australian ingredients.
Best recipes with native Australian ingredients to cook in 2025
How to make damper made with wattleseed and bush tomato
Pepperberry crumpets with whipped balsamic butter
Salt and vinegar smashed potatoes with pickled radish and lemon crème fraîche
Barbecued butterflied lamb leg with saltbush rub
Jock Zonfrillo’s roast turkey with native herbs and spices
Luke Burgess’s flounder fried in fubá with finger lime and young ginger
Kylie Kwong’s deep-fried chicken with finger-lime sauce
Barbecued oysters with finger-lime mignonette
Lennox Hastie’s grilled kingfish belly, fennel and grilled finger lime
Sesame kingfish sashimi with ponzu and finger lime
Buckwheat-hemp crackers with avocado and finger lime

In honour of International Women's Day – and every day – here are our best recipes by leading female chefs. ((Credits: William Meppem))
Jacqui Challinor’s kingfish ceviche with avocado and finger lime
Seared tuna salad with radish, finger lime and citrus vinaigrette
Charred prawn sandwich with fennel, lemon myrtle and lime
Salted-caramel macadamia tart with chocolate ganache
Macadamia panna cotta by Alberto’s Lounge
Barbecued quail with grapes, beans and macadamia nuts
Raes on Wategos’ mango-macadamia popsicles with Piña Colada pineapple
Jaclyn Koludrovic’s dairy-free macadamia parfait with pineapple, ginger and finger lime
Cinnamon myrtle-spiced sticky date pudding with macadamia brittle
Roast pork rack with lemon myrtle and cranberry stuffing
Kylie Kwong’s wallaby sang choi bau
Analiese Gregory’s wallaby tartare with anchovy dressing
Carpaccio of kangaroo with beetroot and native fruits
Flower Drum’s sautéed mud crab with ginger and spring onion (keong chung hai)
Dan Hong’s mud crab with XO sauce
Blood lime and chilli mud crab
Escabeche of Murray cod with saffron and currants
Roast Murray cod with puttanesca butter
Barbecued barramundi with macadamia romesco
Wild barramundi, cavolo nero and spanner crab
Coconut dhal with barramundi
Barramundi with Grenobloise sauce and colcannon
Baked barramundi with pepperleaf mayonnaise
Poached yabbies, sugarcane and coriander vinegar
Alla Wolf-Tasker’s local yabbies, farm cucumbers, dill and whey dressing
Kylie Kwong’s stir-fried Australian native greens with garlic
Helly Raichura’s stir-fried warrigal greens and vegetables (shak bhaja)