Vegetables

Vegetables have a natural affinity with spices and are great textural carriers for wonderful flavours. The close relationship between vegetables and the spice world is well documented and practised in Asian and Mediterranean diets, something we are now becoming more and more familiar with in Australia, and we are incorporating those principles into our daily eating routines. No more are we restricted to the meat-and-three-veg syndrome: vegetables have grown up and can sit proudly at centre stage or can act as versatile and enticing partners to fish, poultry or red meat. We are Most Fortunate — in fact, spoilt-that the various climates across this huge country give us such a wide variety of premium-quality vegetables throughout the year. Vegetables are one of the most important food sources we have at our disposal and are central to any healthy, well-balanced diet — especially when they have been spiced up.