WORLD OF FLAVOURS

Adelaide is preparing to play host to music, arts and dance acts from around the globe at the 18th Womadelaide Festival.
The festival (March 5-8) will feature 57  artists from 27 countries during a weekend packed with performances, visual arts, workshops, cooking sessions and more than 100 food and craft stalls.

Taste The World cooking sessions are a much-loved part of Womad with  festival artists and other guests taking to the stove to prepare  exotic recipes from an array of countries and cultures.

Womadelaide is a family-friendly event and even the cooking sessions have a youth element. Celebrity chefs Poh Ling Yeow and Simon Bryant will be on hand for several workshops and there will be sessions run by The Little Cookie.

www.thelittlecookie.com.au 

Junior primary teachers Alexandra Marcus and Joanna Tierney established The Little Cookie to offer hands-on cooking classes for children which teach them about food and healthy eating while getting them actively involved in preparing food.

Simple egg pasta with sauce by The Little Cookie:

You will need:
1 egg
100g Tip 00  flour 

What to do:
Place flour on a board or in a bowl.
Make a well in the centre and crack eggs into it. Beat the eggs with a fork until smooth.
Using the tips of your fingers, mix the eggs with the flour until everything is combined. Knead the pieces of dough together until you have one, smooth lump!
Now comes the tricky part! You need to knead and work the dough with your hands until it is smooth and silky instead of rough and lumpy. This will take a few minutes and lots of stretching and rolling!
Then wrap it in glad wrap and leave it in the fridge for half an hour or so.  Now you’re ready to roll the pasta. Follow the instructions on the machine. Have fun!

Roasted red sauce

You will need:
6 tomatoes
4 basil leaves
garlic to taste
1/2 onion finely diced

What to do:
Gently score each tomato with a sharp knife. Remember to ask an adult to help you.
Place the tomatoes in a microwave for approximately 4 minutes. Once the tomatoes have cooled down gently peel the skin away and scoop out any seeds.
Put the tomatoes into the tomato machine and gently turn the handle. You will see your delicious healthy sauce
falling into your bowl.
Gently fry finely diced onion and garlic in a fry pan before adding your tomato sauce.
Before you remove the sauce from the heat gently tear delicious fresh basil and stir into your sauce.
Season with salt and pepper. 

Artists from around the world will swap their musical instruments for cooking utensils again this year when they create favourite dishes from their home countries during Taste The World sessions.
The sessions were first introduced to Womad in 2004 and will once again bring a kaleidoscopic array of world foods to audiences.
The cooking action will be held at the kitchen next to the Coopers Garden Bar at various times from Friday to Monday, March 5 to 8.

Highlights include:

Singer/musician Mariem Hassan from the Western Sahara will cook meifrisa, a traditional festive meal made with camel, a revered animal among the Saharawi people. Mariem will serve the meifrisa with bread called leftir which is unleavened and baked without any yeast. (Saturday, 5pm)

YAMOTO Japanese drummers will prepare authentic makizushi or sushi rolls with authentic ingredients such as kanpyo (dried gourd shavings) and denbu, mashed fish boiled with sugar and soy sauce. (Sunday, 8.30pm)
Kamel el Harrachi from Algeria/France will prepare Algerian Chorbo, a tasty spicy beef and chickpea soup. (Monday, noon)

France’s Babylon Circus will prepare oven-baked skate (fish) wings with camembert gratin. (Monday, 5pm)

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Some Womadelaide food stalls to check out:

Parachilna Garden Café
If you’ve been meaning to go to the Prairie Hotel but don’t have time to do the road trip, fear not, as Australia’s most awarded and hip outback hotel is relocating its Flinders Ranges Café from Parachilna to Womadelaide with a “Tastes From The Outback” menu of true-blue Aussie foods.

Byron Bay Organic Donuts
People keen to taste one of these donuts may need to be prepared to wait in a long line but it is worth the wait. The hand-rolled ‘doughy’ doughnuts were the undisputed favourite of the masses last year with a permanent line of people waiting to taste what all the hype
was about.

The Organic Market
The Adelaide Hills gourmet institution brings great organic coffee, vegetarian delights, local gourmet produce and a sumptuous dessert cabinet to Womadelaide.

Passion 4 Juice
The mobile juice bar has a team which travels the UK and Australia serving fresh-pressed juice at big music festivals such as Glastonbury, The Glade, The Big Chill, Edinburgh Fringe and Womadelaide. The 100 per cent natural juicy concoctions are full-bodied, tasty and absolutely free from preservatives, added sugar, artificial colours and flavours.