South African Recipes & Cookbooks

How to Cook dishes from South Africa

• Biltong - Salty, dried, meat (beef, game, or even ostrich), similar to jerky.
  
  
• Bobotie - Bobotie is a Cape Malay dish that resembles a meatloaf with raisins, and with a baked egg on top. The dish is served with various accompaniments such as yellow rice, sambals, banana slices coconut and chutney.
  
  
• Boerewors - A spiral-shaped sausage containing a lot of fat, made from coarsely ground meat (beef mostly, but sometimes also containing lamb and pork), and flavored with spices (allspice, black pepper, cloves, coriander seed, and nutmeg). It is preserved using salt and vinegar, but most be kept refrigerated. There are several different variety of the sausage, and they can be cooked by barbecuing, boiling, broiling or frying.
  
  
• Dröewors - This is dried sausage which is popular as a snack food.
  
  
• Frikkadel - Meatballs with bread, eggs, onions and spices.
  
  
• Mealie bread - A sweetened bread baked with sweetcorn.
  
  
• Potjiekos - A stew containing meat, vegetables, potato or rice, with water or wine added. Fruits or pasta are sometimes added.
  
  
• Sosatie - A Cape Malay dish consisting of mutton marinated with onions, chillies, garlic, curry leaves and tamarind sauce, placed on skewers and then fried or grilled.
  
  
• Tomato bredie (Afrikaans: Tamatiebredie) - Mutton stew, seasoned with cardamom, chillies, cinnamon, cloves and ginger.
  
  
• Vetkoek - Dough, filled with ground (minced) meat or syrup and honey, and then deep-fried.
  
  
• Waterblommetjiebredie - Meat stewed with Cape Pondweed flowers.

• Malva pudding - A apricot-flavored sponge-like dessert.
  
  
• Melktert - Melktert is Afrikaans for "milk tart". This dessert consists of a pastry crust containing a creamy filling made from milk, flour, sugar and eggs. Cinnamon is sometimes sprinkled on the surface.

• African Recipes & Cookbooks

Traditional South African Cooking By Magdaleen Van Wyk Struik Publishers Hardcover (144 pages) List Price: $21.00* Lowest New Price: $206.52* Lowest Used Price: $198.34* *(As of 10:32 Pacific 29 Jul 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: South African cuisine is a unique blend of the culinary art of many different cultures - the Dutch, French, German and British settlers, as well as the Malays who came from the East, all brought their own recipes to this country. The subtle adaptation of these 'imported' recipes in the addition of local ingredients and the introduction of innovative cooking methods have made for an original, much-loved cuisine. This book also features interesting snippets about the early newcomer's way of life. Anyone who longs for a beloved grandmother's famous milk tart or melkkos, or a great aunt's delicious bobotie or vetkoek, should have this book in his or her kitchen!

South African Cape Malay Cooking By Sonia Allison Absolute Press Paperback (126 pages) List Price: $14.95* Lowest New Price: $10.23* Lowest Used Price: $7.44* *(As of 10:32 Pacific 29 Jul 2010 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Two leading food writers combine their talents to celebrate this is sparklingly original yet one of the world's least know cuisines from the Cape community of South Africa: a cuisine that combines the tastes and recipes of Malaysia, The Dutch East Indies and Europe with the herbs, spices and foods of the Cape. Probably the world's first fusion cuisine.