Bush Tucker Rub

A dry woody, spicy and tangy combination when tasted raw but a perfect compliment to the dish when rubbed on meats or vegetables before barbecuing.

Bush Tucker Rub imparts a coffee-like aroma and roasted pork-like taste so is versatile enough to flavor ice-cream and desserts as well as meats and full-flavored seafood such as salmon and tuna.

Sprinkle on meat then barbecue, grill, roast or pan-fry. Delicious as a rub on pork, chicken, salmon steaks, red meats and roast pumpkin.

Bush tucker, also called bush food, is food native to Australia and used as sustenance by Indigenous Australians, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples. Bush tucker provided a source of nutrition to the non-indigenous colonial settlers, often supplementing meagre rations.

Traditional Indigenous Australians' use of bushfoods was affected by the settlement of Australia in 1788 by non-Indigenous peoples. The introduction of non-native foods, together with the loss of traditional lands, resulting in reduced access to native foods by Aboriginal people, and destruction of native habitat for agriculture, accentuated the reduction in use.

Since the 1970s, there has been recognition of the nutritional and gourmet value of native foods by non-Indigenous Australians, and the bushfood industry has grown enormously. Many such ecologically sound foods are now sold in restaurants or packaged as gourmet foods, which has led to expansion of commercial cultivation of native food crops.