Search is on for WA's signature dish

The search has begun to find Western Australia's signature dish.

Buy West Eat Best has partnered with Celebrate WA for a Statewide hunt called WA's Signature Dish and the competition will crown the recipe to put the State on a plate.

The competition asks for dishes to use a WA-grown, farmed, fished, produced or processed food product as its main ingredient.

Buy West Eat Best will have some star power, with renowned French-born chef Guillaume Brahimi joining a panel of judges to choose the winning dish.

Brahimi is one of Australia's most acclaimed chefs.

He trained under Michelin-starred Joel Robuchon in Paris and moved to Sydney in the 1990s, where he took over the flagship restaurant at the Sydney Opera House, Bennelong.

Since then, Brahimi has opened Bistro Guillaume in the Crown Melbourne complex and a second at Crown Perth in Burswood.

Guillaume said the decision would be a careful one.

"It will be a hard decision," he said.

"I'm hoping it will be a hard decision. It's about finding out what the person thought about, why it should be the West Australian signature dish and the philosophy behind it before you taste it."

To be in the running to win WA's Signature Dish, amateur cooks need to submit their recipe online and then battle it out in one of four regional finals held in the Gascoyne, Perth and surrounds, the Great Southern and Southern Forests.

The winner of each regional final will work with a high- profile mentor chef to get them ready for the grand final, set to be held in Perth on June 2 as part of the State's WA Day celebrations.

The judging panel will include Brahimi, Crown Perth executive chef Ralf Vogt and _The West Australian's _food critic Rob Broadfield.

Brahimi said the winning dish would successfully highlight one hero WA ingredient, such as marron, coral trout or Margaret River wagyu beef.

There are plenty of products to choose from, with more than 100 food businesses offering up foodstuffs on the Buy West Eat Best program.

Brahimi said he was look- ing forward to discovering something fresh and new about WA produce.

"I would love to discover something I haven't discovered in Western Australia - that would be great," he said.

For more information, or to enter, visit wasignaturedish. com.au.