Paper Chef #10 - Ingredients

New Orleans inspired ingredients for Paper Chef #10: beer, sausages, shrimp, tomatoes.

Ingredients selection:

Beer - "Redback", uniquely local West Australian wheat beer. A great name to use for the cocktail.
Sausages - home-made using the cheapest meat, lean turkey to save money for Hurricane Katrina disaster.
Shrimp - a really luxury item, but compensated by using smaller size local prawns of cheaper grade and on "special", to save even more money. Heads left on to give impression of larger prawns.
Tomatoes - akudjura, the indigeneous Australian name for Australian bush tomatoes seems a good choice for this challenge to show Australia's $10 million contribution to the Hurricane Katrina relief effort. The caramel character replaces the need for browning in fat for New Orleans type dishes. Sun-dried tomatoes make a good substitute.

According to Vic Cherikoff Food Services Product information, akudjura posseses: "Sweet savoury taste of tamarillo/caramel and similar to concentrated sun-dried tomatoes. Light brown free-flowing powder. Blackens if used as a Cajun-style spice. Sprinkle or use as a seasoning for soups, vegetables, salads (as in the Sydney Salad), cheeses, fish and Salt or salty cheese enhances the flavour by balancing any bitterness."



The whole raisin looking akudjura tastes very much like a crunchy sun-dried tomato. To enable skewering for the cocktail, plumb the akudjura up by boiling 2 minutes and letting it sit in the hot water for 30 minutes.

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