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Smoked Snoek Pate

Snoek is a fish found off the waters of Cape Town. It has a distinctive sea taste to it and is loved by all South Africans. If you cannot get any Snoek then you can replace it with smoked Hadock for this dish.

Ingredients

250g smoked Snoek

250g cream cheese

15ml (1 Tablespoon) lemon juice

Pinch of Ginger powder

10 ml [...]

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Peri-Peri Chicken Livers

Peri-Peri Chicken Livers are probably my all time favorite Friday night snack, Quick to make and superbly tasty

 
1 large onion — chopped2 tablespoons vegetable oil1/2 teaspoon cayenne pepper or peri-peri powder250 grams chicken livers, cleaned and halved1 tablespoon brandysalt and pepper

 
Saute the onion in the oil. Add the cayenne pepper or peri-peri. Add the chicken [...]

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350th birthday of South African wine

Article courtesy of Wine.co.za

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An Oxtail Recipe I Love

Although oxtails are being used for much more than soup or stew nowadays, long, slow braising in a liquid is the preferred method to derive a tender result while drawing maximum flavor from what is pretty much all bones. Plan on a long cooking time. Oxtails work particularly well in crockpots and pressure cookers.

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Tomato Bredie – Good Old Winter Warming Food

As a child growing up in the South African Winters we were made to eat good old fashioned Tomato Bredie, and I will be honest with you, as a child I hated even the sound of cooked Tomatoes. Thankfully age has brought me around, and this is one of my best winter dishes of all [...]

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Bobotie (pronounced – ba-boo-tea)

Bobotie is a South African dish consisting of spiced minced meat baked with an egg-based topping. The recipe probably originates from the Dutch East India Company colonies in Batavia, with the name derived from the Indonesian Bobotok. It is also made with curry powder leaving it with a slight “tang”.

It is a dish of some [...]

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Monkey Gland Sauce – Another South African Favourite, Used on Steaks and Burgers mainly

I have worked for Multi Nationals my whole life, and have been very fortunate to live and work in a number of countries. What that has also meant is that I had a number of international visitors to the Shores of Sunny South Africa over the years too. This recipe always seems to get them. [...]

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Easy Spaghetti Recipe: Restaurant Favorites

Spaghetti recipe is a well known dish from Italy. There are tons of easy ways to eat your spaghetti. Here are below the 2 most common ways to have your home made spaghetti. These also can be found in great restaurants around the world. Here are these secrets of favorites Spaghetti recipe.

 
Adriatic Spaghetti Recipe

 
Ingredients:

1 Bay [...]

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SA cuisine: glossary of terms

Take milk with your rooibos? Fancy some pap with your wors? Brave enough to try some skop or mashonzha? Brush up on your culinary vocabulary with our quick list of indigenous South African food terms and what they mean.

South Africa is home to myriad ethnic and racial groups, many of them migrant communities, all of [...]

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Facts about Durban’s Bunny Chow

Durban is not renowned for being a seat of culinary invention but we have made at least one major contribution to world cuisine in the shape of the Bunny Chow. The Bunny Chow is a very simple affair consisting of a hollowed-out quarter, half or full loaf of bread filled with any available curry including beef, mutton, chicken or beans.

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