Sep 2019 - Lowveld

My Vegetarian Braai. Gasps of
horror from the carnivores! But this
lovely book by Adele Maartens is not
about trying to convert meat eaters...
rather to show there is more to braai
than boerewors. With the growing
trend of plant-based eating, there’s
an excellent chance one of your
guests is going to be vegetarian...
so here are a host of delicious meals
to dish up. With a few vegan recipes
too, so everyone’s catered for.
Penguin, R325.
Tasty sheba sauce
Sheba sauce
You will need
• Oil for sautéing the onions • 1 large onion or 2 medium ones, finely
chopped • 1 tbs curry powder - use hot, medium or mild powder and
add more or less, depending on taste • 1kg of tomatoes, chopped (any
type will do fine - you could also use three cans of chopped or whole
tomatoes, it is not necessary to peel them) • 2 tbs Worcester sauce
• 3 tbs chopped fresh herbs - use a combination of basil, marjoram,
oregano, parsley or rosemary • ½ a cup of chutney • Salt and pepper to
taste.
Method
• Heat the oil and sauté the onions until translucent.
• Add the curry powder and fry for a minute longer at low heat to
enhance the flavour. Stir continuously to prevent the curry from
sticking to the pot or burning. Add more oil if necessary.
• Now add the rest of the ingredients and simmer for approximately
1 hour at a low temperature. Stir every now and again.
• And voila! You have a pot of delicious sheba to enjoy with your
pap.
Tips
• Uphuthu (isiZulu) or krummelpap roughly translates to
“crumbly porridge” and sadza (Shona) or stywe pap to “stiff
porridge”. Sheba sauce is a tomato relish and is also called
tamatiesmoor in Afrikaans.
• Braaipap meal is usually coarser than ordinary maize meal
and makes a wonderful, crumbly krummelpap.
• Yellow maize meal is made from yellow corn and slightly
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more nutritious than white
maize meal, which is made
from white corn.
• A cast iron pot or a pot with
a heavy bottom works best.
When the bottom is too
thin, the pap tends to burn.
• Stirring the pap could be
tricky, but do not lose all
hope when you do not get
it perfect the first time. Just
keep on trying.
• Don’t worry too much if the
pap burns. The burnt taste
gives a different flavour
to the pap which is not
unpalatable at all. And the
pieces of burnt pap sticking
to the bottom of the pot are
delicious when eaten with
butter!
Cook
Get cooking!
With half a dozen yummy
new cookbooks on the
shelves it’s going to be a
delicious September
Twin sisters Fatima Sydow and Gadija
Sydow Noordien bring the taste of
South African Malay-style cooking
to your kitchen in this spicy new
cookbook, Cape, Curry & Koesisters.
You’ll find recipes for masalas, soups,
light meals and snacks (samosas
or pickled salmon and onion salad
anyone?). Rice, sambals and atchar
feature (of course), followed by the
big guns of curry, breyani and ahkni.
Here we dithered happily between
butter chicken curry, frikkadel curry,
slow braised lamb chops with apricot
chutney and steak and potato braise.
All look too, too scrumptious for
words. Puds like melktart and malva,
along with luscious cakes (koesisters
coming up), round off the book
in diet-breaking style. Human &
Rousseau, R330.
Rebecca and Kate Lund, aka The Delish Sisters, are constantly inspired by the
everchanging food industry and love to create beautiful food experiences for
clients, friends and family. They enjoy experimenting with new and exotic spices
and ingredients, and encouraging people to be adventurous, too! The recipes
in their book are fresh, wholesome, colourful, seasonal and “mostly”healthy... so
while there are indulgent dishes and treats, they keep everything as balanced
and as inclusive as possible... so also loads of sugar-free, gluten-free recipes,
delicious vegetarian options and tasty vegan food. Penguin, R300.
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