Try one of these lekker South African recipes this Heritage Day
With a diverse selection of traditional dishes, South African cuisine is definitely one to love.
POLOKWANE – Looking for a typical heritage food recipe will take a long time in South Africa, as different regions will have different traditional foods.
In Durban it will be curry dishes, samoosas and sambals, coming from traditional Indian recipes. In Cape Town one will find traditional pickled onions, biryani, bobotie, waterblommetjiebredie, snoek pie and bokkoms, while the Free State will have an abundance of typical Afrikaner food such as oxtail, chicken pie, kaiiangs, ginger beer.
Think tripe and offal, samp and beans, denningvleis and koeksisters, malva tart, biltong and shisha nyama, mogodu and morogo, sephatlo, mabaku and ngatha and – too many to mention, too much to eat!
South African heritage food is a melting pot of many cultures and tribes, with some unique south African foods too.
Don’t forget pap – whether it be stywepap or putu or slappap! It is a winner among many of our rainbow nation’s residents.
Picking recipes that will fall in each and everyone’s taste is much too difficult, if not impossible, but try these recipes:
Curried Brawn
Ginger Beer
Traditional ginger beer is a naturally sweetened and carbonated, usually non-alcoholic beverage. It is produced by the natural fermentation of prepared ginger spice, yeast and sugar.
It is a favourite among most South Africans.
Spathlo/Kota
Comprised of a quarter loaf (kota) of bread hollowed out and filled with chips and other meaty ingredients.
Its contents are what distinguishes the kota from its Durban cousin, the bunny chow. The soft loaf is crammed with a combination of, among other ingredients, atchar, polony, slap chips, cheese, egg and Russian sausage.
Pap
Pap is South Africa’s staple food and doesn’t need much of explination.
Tell us, which is your favourite South African dish?
