With consumers paying more for extra virgin olive oil at the supermarket, chef Kristin Bacon shares her favourite alternatives that won't break the bank.
Drought conditions and extreme weather in Europe have impacted olive crops, causing supply to dry up.Recent rain may cause prices to trickle down after Europe's harvest at the end of the year.
"You could use sunflower oil to pan fry a schnitzel but you would add a little bit of coconut oil or a little bit of sesame oil just to change up the flavour," Ms Bacon said."Coconut oil is great for frying anything … but you wouldn't use as much oil as if you might use with olive oil, so you would just shallow fry it," Ms Bacon said.Derived from the rapeseed plant, canola oil is great for your cooking needs.
"In Australia, vegetable oil doesn't really indicate what's in it … we know it doesn't have palm oil, which is great, but I tend to stay away from there when I can," she said."Most of the vegetable oils sold in grocery stores are just soybean oil, corn oil, or a combination of the two."It's harvesting season for Australia's olive growers and Robert McGavin is hard at work in his olive fields in Victoria.
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