Returning with more tasty treats from Broome, Kriol Kitchen season 2 returns to NITV. Blending food, culture and family stories, sisters Ali and Mitch Torres delve into the world of Kriol cuisine, which is a melting pot of influences from Aboriginal Australia, Malaysia, China, Japan and the Philippines, with roots stretching back to the pearling industry.
In season 2, the Torres sisters, along with other talented locals, show us how to cook their prized family recipes, from spicy Malay chicken, goanna Caesar salad and chilli crayfish to desserts that borrow from the bush, including boab custard and mango cheesecake dribbled with bush passionfruit.
Episode 1
Airs Wednesday 4 February at 7.30pm on NITV
In this first episode, sisters Ali and Mitch Torres share recipes from their childhood that their father used to cook up using pearl shell meat, including stinky pearl shell meat, which are the instestives of pearl shell that are pickled in vinegar and traditionally used as a condiment. Drawing on their Djugan and Asian influence, they incorporate ginger, garlic, chilli and vinegar in their recipes.
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Mitch’s pearl shell with chilli dressing
Sweet pawpaw salad
Episode 2
Airs Wednesday 11 February at 7.30pm on NITV
Clifton Mamid joins sisters Ali and Mitch Torres to cook up some fusion food in Kriol Kitchen. A trained chef, Clifton draws on his grandfather’s Malaysian influence and whips up three separate dishes that make for a scrumptious meal. Using locally caught skippy (fish) for his tempura, he adds an Asian-inspired salad and spicy blachung for a fresh summertime meal.
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Tempura fish
Blachung with Asian-style salad
Episode 3
Airs Wednesday 18 February at 7.30pm on NITV
Ali and Mitch Torres welcome Hasimah Haji Noor into the Kriol Kitchen to cook up some Asian treats. Drawing on influences from across the ocean, from Malaysia and Singapore, Hasimah cooks up some well-loved family recipes.
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Spicy chicken
Fried chilli eggs
Spicy Malay noodles
Episode 4
Airs Wednesday 25 February at 7.30pm on NITV
Ali and Mitch Torees are back in the kitchen for more of their personal Kriol treats. Drawing on the local seafood from Roebuck Bay, the sisters travel to a childhood location that has, on many occasions, fed their family well with seashells and fish. They cook up soul food to suit to the location: a soup made from the local pipis and a spicy turtle stir-fry.
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Birriga birriga (pipi) soup
Goolil (turtle) chilli tamarind sambal
Episode 5
Airs Wednesday 4 March at 7.30pm on NITV
Ali and Mitch Torres welcome Dwes Wiggin into the Kriol Kitchen to share some of his family secrets. He cooks up a favourite dish of his Aunty's, a chilli fish dish based on Malaysian influences with a local twist. Dwes, a lover of cake baking, also whips up a delicious cheesecake, putting the local bush passionfruit to good use.
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Chilli fish and mango cheesecake with bush passionfruit topping
Episode 6
Airs Wednesday 11 March at 7.30pm on NITV
Lloyd Pigram joins Ali and Mitch Torres to talk about his Filipino food influences. Drawing on his heritage and his Aunty’s recipe, he cooks up a tasty pork dish. Ali and Mitch also draw on their own bush knowledge to give this episode a local flare by using the humble bush fruit boab to whisk up a custard with a bush passionfruit topping.
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Pork adobo and boab custard with bush passionfruit topping
Episode 7
Airs Wednesday 18 March at 7.30pm on NITV
Inspired by their mother’s cooking, Ali and Mitch Torres share some of their seafood stories. Using local pipis, they make a crispy fried stingray dish, which is given a tangy flavour by adding tamarind.
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Chilli tamarind jinnup (stingray) and cockle salad
Episode 8
Airs Wednesday 25 March at 7.30pm on NITV
Elijah Prewitt’s cooking influence comes from living in Broome and he likes to infuse Asian-style cooking with influences from all over the world. Sharing his stories of growing up with his friends, eating whatever was caught from the ocean and the inlands, he shows Ali and Mitch Torres a tasty crayfish treat that draws strongly on Thai flavours.
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Asian-style crayfish with green pawpaw salad
Episode 9
Airs Wednesday 1 April at 7.30pm on NITV
Drawing on their father’s Japanese and mother’s Bard heritage, Cauline and Bubba join Ali and Mitch Torres to prepare two dishes from their childhood. The black bean fish is Japanese inspired and the sasami (raw fish) is a blend of several Asian cultures.
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Black bean fish with cabbage and sasami
Episode 10
Airs Wednesday 8 April at 7.30pm on NITV
Bringing season 2 to a close, hosts Ali and Mitch Torres take centrestage in the Kriol Kitchen and bring us a twist on a traditional Caesar salad, giving bush goanna a dressing up instead of chicken. They’ll also be sharing their secrets to the perfect Aboriginal bread, damper.
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Barni (goanna) Caesar salad
Pan-fried damper
More about traditional bush foods
