South Africa
Menu guide
Atjar - Pickled fruits and vegetables (Green Bean Atjar and Lemon Atjar)
Beskuit - Hard twice-baked sweet cake (similar to biscotti)
typically served with coffee in the morning (English: rusk)
Biltong - Long pieces of meat salted and dried, similar to
jerky
Blatjang - Fruit chutney
Bobotie - Chopped or minced beef baked in a curry sauce with
raisins and almonds with custard topping
Boerewors - Homemade spiced beef and pork sausage
Braaivleis - Afrikaans word for barbecue
Bredie - Stew
Cape Kedgeree - Fish and rice specialty that originated in
India
Caramongscraps - Cardamom and coconut cookies
Chippolata - Tangerine and ginger custard
Chutney - Sweet and sour fruit condiment
Denningvleis - Spiced lamb fricassee
Dutch Chicken Pie - Traditional chicken pot pie topped with crust
Fish Pie - Fish casserole topped with mashed potatoes and baked
Frikkadels - Braised meat patties
Geelrys - Yellow rice with turmeric and raisins
Gesmoorde Hoender - Braised chicken with green chile peppers
Gesmoorde Vis - Salt cod and potatoes with tomatoes
Green Bean Bredie - Traditional mutton and green bean stew
served with rice
Hanepoot - local grape eaten raw, dried for raisins, cooked
for jam, or used in winemaking
Hoender Pastei - Boer chicken pie with hard-boiled eggs and ham and topped with a crust
Kaffir corn - Grain resembling barley
Kaltschale - Cold buttermilk soup sweetened with cinnamon and nutmeg
Klappertert - Coconut pie
Koeksisters - Braided pastry crullers with cinnamon and lemon
syrup
Krakelinge - Figure-8 cookies dusted with sugar and chopped nuts
Mealie Bread - Corn bread
Mealie-pap - Stiff dry corn-meal "porridge" often
served instead of bread (a staple starch of native South Africans similar
to polenta)
Mealies - Corn
Mechow - Drink made from fermented cornmeal
Melktert - Custard and cinnamon pie
Naartjie - Relative of the tangerine
Rock lobster tail - Regional lobster specialty
Rooibos Tea - Strong herbal tea
Sambal - Condiments served with curries to "cool"
them, such as chopped vegatables, chutneys, pickles, and coconut
Soetkoekies - Traditional spice and wine cookies of Dutch origin
Sosaties - Lamb and apricots on a skewer marinated in curry-tamarind sauce
Vetkoek - Fried corn bread |
South Africa |
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| What to Eat
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| South African recipes: |
| Bobotie (Beef Pie) |
| Cape Kidgeree (Fish and Rice) |
| Dried Fruit Chutney |
| Green Bean Bredie (Lamb and Green Bean Stew) |
| Green Bean Salad |
| Green Mango Atjar (Green Mangoes preserved in Spiced Oil) |
| Green Mealie Bread (Corn Bread) |
| Hoender Pastei (Boer Chicken Pie) |
| Klappertert (Coconut Pie) |
| Mealie Soup (Corn Soup) |
| Raisin Tart with Sour-Cream Sauce |
| Rock Lobster Soup |
| Rock Lobster Tail Salad |
| Soetkoekies (Spice and Wine Cookies) |
| Sosaties (Grilled Marinated Meat with Apricots) |
| Tomato Salad |
| Yellow Melon Muscadel (Melon Salad) |
| Yellow Rice |
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