AUSTRALIA DAY RECIPES THAT WILL IMPRESS (2024)

FAQs

What is the traditional food for Australia Day? ›

Whether it's a pile of jam-and-cream-filled lamingtons you need or a pillowy pav, a few prawns on the barbie or the best-looking snags and onions cooked in beer to shove into rolls, here's our true-blue Australia Day recipe must haves.

What are the most popular traditional Australian foods? Popular traditional Australian foods include Vegemite, Tim Tams, Lamingtons, and meat pies. Australian barbecue, known for grilled meats like sausages and prawns, is also famous. Seafood lovers should try Barramundi and Moreton Bay Bugs.

One of the most logical – if not the most logical – alternatives to January 26 is New Year's Day, when the Commonwealth of Australia came into being in 1901 and Australia, as one “united” nation, was technically born.

Roast lamb has been declared Australia's national dish in a major poll that shows we're still a country of meat eaters at heart.

Australian Eating Habits

Australians tend to eat three meals a day: Breakfast – eaten in the morning is either light and cold (cereal, toast, coffee) or heavy and hot (bacon, eggs, sausages, fried tomato) Lunch – eaten around 12 – 2 pm is usually a light meal such as a sandwich, or salad.

The typical meal served and eaten on the Australian dinner table would be a red meat dish with at least three or four different varieties of fresh vegetables. Whether it is rump, porterhouse or fillet, fried, grilled or barbecued, steak and vegetables is by far our most popular dish.

1. Vegemite Toast. Whether it's love at first bite or a taste that takes some getting used to, Vegemite toast is an iconic part of Aussie foods and Australian cuisine. Many Aussies grow up with it, embracing its distinct flavour.

Australians, however, invariably use the word prawn rather than shrimp. Because the commercial was commissioned for broadcast in the United States, the change was made to limit audience confusion.

Victoria adopted 26 January as Australia Day in 1931, and by 1935, all states of Australia were celebrating 26 January as Australia Day (although it was still known as Anniversary Day in New South Wales). The name "Foundation Day" persisted in local usage.

Recent News. Australia Day, holiday (January 26) honouring the establishment of the first permanent European settlement on the continent of Australia. On January 26, 1788, Arthur Phillip, who had sailed into what is now Sydney Cove with a shipload of convicts, hoisted the British flag at the site.

How do Indigenous people feel about Australia Day? ›

A large part of the population recognises it as Australia Day, but for many Indigenous people and their Allies, it's more aptly acknowledged as Invasion Day or Survival Day. To many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, there is little to celebrate on Australia Day.

Talk with your local First Peoples' community members to inform yourself of their views on the date. This will help you develop a respectful approach. Share your new knowledge and have respectful conversations with family, friends, colleagues, and neighbours about what you've learned and the different perspective.

Ham and turkey...but cold.

In most Australia homes, Christmas ham is prepared a few days in advance and served cold, and the same applies to turkey. Everyone eats their fill, with your Uncle Brian usually fitting in thirds or fourths.

Breakfast is often called 'the most important meal of the day', and for good reason. As the name suggests, breakfast breaks the overnight fasting period.

Bush tucker and native ingredients

The taste of Australia is inherent in our traditional wild foods from the bush and rainforest – plants such as lemon myrtle, Kakadu plum, wattleseed and warrigal greens.

Aboriginal people ate a large variety of plant foods such as fruits, nuts, roots, vegetables, grasses and seeds, as well as different meats such as kangaroos, 'porcupine'7, emus, possums, goannas, turtles, shellfish and fish.