FISH WITH LEMON

MYRTLE
AND WARRIGAL GREENS
Ingredients – Between 3
 demonstrate safe and hygienic work practices, for example:
(ACTDEK045, ACTDEP050)
1 x 300g small whole rainbow trout, cleaned and scaled – personal hygiene
– food safety, e.g. the food danger zone, cross-
2t lemon myrtle contamination
– safe work practices
– use of personal protective equipment (PPE)
½ C olive oil (macadamia oil – if nuts were allowed) justifies food choices by analysing the factors that influence eating
habits (FT5-7)
1 sheet of baking paper (1 large sheet of paperbark if available)
1 bunch warrigal greens (or substitute for English Spinach) Warrigal Greens – high in
antioxidants. They are
1 lemon sliced
native to Australia and
Method were used by the early
explorers as an attempt to
1. Preheat oven to 180°. fight scurvy.
2. Collect ingredients and equipment.
3. Combine lemon myrtle and oil in a small bowl and brush all
over the fish.
4. If using paperbark, dampen before placing fish on top. If using
baking paper, place fish on paper. Place the lemon slices on top
of the trout.
5. Trim the edges of the bark with scissors then wrap in a bon-bon
shape, allowing a little opening for steam to escape, using
cooking string to tie each end of the bark. If using baking paper,
encase fish in paper to form a bag “en papillote”.
6. Place the trout parcel on an oven tray and sprinkle with water.
If using paperbark, cover with foil.
7. Bake fish for 20 minutes, or until fish is cooked.
8. To prepare warrigal greens; separate leaves and blanch for 1-2 minutes, then refresh under cold water.
9. Serve fish on top of warrigal greens.

Equipment List:

Activities
 1. Read the following article or complete your own research and write THREE features that make warrigal
greens suitable as Indigenous food.
https://tuckerbush.com.au/warrigal-greens-tetragonia-tetragonioides/

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2. Search for the definition of ‘en papillote’. Record its word origin and definition below.
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3. Read your textbook pp4-5 “Native Australian Foods”.

From reading this, why do you think fish was a popular food among the Aboriginal and Torres Strait
Islander people?
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4. Read the following article and write a paragraph summary of the Brewarrina
Aboriginal Fish Traps and the importance of this aquaculture fishing operation to not
only the Aboriginal people and the first colonists, but also to looking back at our
history today.
https://www.environment.gov.au/heritage/places/national/brewarrina

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