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Showing posts with label Culture. Show all posts

Wednesday, 27 June 2012

Recipe: Cape Malay Curry

 Ingredients:

Cape Malay Curry
  • 2 kg boneless mutton shoulder or 2 kg boneless lamb shoulder
  • oil
  • 4 onions, peeled and chopped
  • 2-4 garlic cloves, peeled and minced
  • 1 piece fresh gingerroot, peeled and crushed
  • 14.79 ml Cape Malay curry powder or 14.79 ml mild curry powder, of your choice
  • 4.92 ml ground coriander
  • 4.92 ml ground cumin
  • 2.46 ml turmeric
  • 1.23 ml salt
  • black pepper
  • 1 cinnamon stick
  • 3 cloves
  • 2 bay leaves
  • 2 carrots, peeled and diced
  • 250 g dried apricots, soaked in warm water and drained
  • 2 bananas, peeled and sliced
  • 29.58 ml tomato paste
  • 50 ml wine vinegar
  • 250 ml meat stock
  • 44.37 ml apricot jam
  • 44.37 ml natural yoghurt

Directions:

  1. Heat the oil in a large pot or saucepan.
  2. Over high heat, fry the onions and garlic, stirring continuously. Add the ginger, curry powder and all the spices and continue stirring for a minute. Season to taste with pepper and add the salt.
  3. Reduce heat slightly. Add the meat and fry it until it is browned on all sides. (This may be easier if you remove the onions, garlic and ginger mixture and set them aside, then return them to the pot after the meat is browned.).
  4. Add the vinegar and stock, plus all the other remaining ingredients (except the apricot jam and yoghurt). Cover. Reduce heat. Simmer over a low heat, stirring occasionally, until everything is tender, approximately 1 1/2 hours for lamb and 2 hours for mutton, maybe a little longer.
  5. Stir in the apricot jam and the yoghurt a few minutes before serving.
  6. Serve this curry with yellow rice and a variety of sambals and atjars.

Recipe Source: http://www.food.com/recipe/bo-kaap-cape-malay-kerrie-south-african-cape-malay-curry-289231#ixzz1yy9CgkK6
Picture Source: http://food.sndimg.com/img/recipes/28/92/31/large/picAkIQDV.jpg  

Tuesday, 19 June 2012

Recipe: Beer Bread

Another perfect addition to the typical South African braai (BBQ) would be Beer Bread. 

Beer Bread

Beer Bread
Ingredients:
750 ml flour
5 ml salt
15ml Baking Powder
2 ml Bicarbonate of Soda
30 ml brown sugar
340 ml bottle of beer (your favourite beer)

Method:
Preheat oven to 160 degrees Celsius.
Mix dry ingredients
Pour in the beer
Mix to form a stiff dough – Do not over mix!
Put the dough into a well greased loaf tin.
Bake for 60 minutes

 Try it out and let me know how it tastes :) 


Picture source: http://travelblog.portfoliocollection.com/FeaturedImage/beer-bread31.jpg
Recipe source: http://www.south-african-homeschool-curriculum.com/south-african-bread-recipes.html

Friday, 15 June 2012

Recipe: Springbok Shooter

In celebration for the weekend's arrival, I have added recipes of cocktails and shooters for today. 

Named after the National Rugby Team, the Springbokkie is a common shooter in South Africa.

Here is the recipe to make your own:

Springbokkie

Ingredients:

1 part Creme de Menthe 

1 part Irish Cream


Directions:

1. Poor one part Creme de Menthe (or similar liqueur) into a shot glass; 
2. Slowly add Irish Cream (or Amarula, Cape Velvet Cream, Advokaat, Baileys) to shot glass, 3. Using the back of a spoon to ensure that liqueurs don't mix. 

Enjoy!


Recipe source: http://www.thecreativepot.net/2010/06/springbokkies.html



















































Wednesday, 13 June 2012

Would love to be sitting here right now

Paarl, Western Cape




Source: http://www.curiouswines.ie/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/paarl-south-africa.jpg

Recipe: Milk Tart

Nothing screams South African like the delicious melktert (Milk Tart). A definite favourite in the South African cuisine.

A very easy recipe and the end product will be mouth-watering - promise.

Milk Tart

Ingredients

  • 45 g butter, melted
  • 200 g white sugar
  • 3 egg yolks
  • 145 g cake flour
  • 5 g baking powder
  • 2 g salt
  • 5 ml vanilla extract
  • 950 ml milk
  • 3 egg white
  • 10 g cinnamon sugar

Directions

  1. Preheat the oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Coat a 9 inch deep dish pie plate with vegetable oil cooking spray.
  2. In a large bowl, mix together the butter and sugar until smooth. Add the egg yolks and beat until light and fluffy. Sift in the cake flour, baking powder and salt, and stir until well blended. Mix in the vanilla and milk. In a separate bowl, whip the egg whites to stiff peaks using an electric mixer. Fold into the batter. Pour into the prepared pie plate, and sprinkle cinnamon sugar over the top.
  3. Bake for 25 minutes in the preheated oven, then reduce the temperature to 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). Continue to bake for 25 to 30 minutes, or until the center is set when you gently jiggle the pie. Serve hot or cold. 


 
Recipe source: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/south-african-melktert-milk-tart/detail.aspx 
Image source: http://browniegirlblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/09/milk-tart-41.jpg  
Image source: http://www.100cafestreet.com/milk-tart-recipe/

7 World Heritage Sites

Did you know South Africa is home to 7 World Heritage Sites?

Here they are:

Cradle of Humankind, Johannesburg, Gauteng
1. The Cradle of Humankind 
The discovery of early human activity dating back 3 million years ago. The most popular      cave is Sterkfontein where over 500 fossils and over 9000 stone tools artifacts were     discovered. 



Australopithecus sediba was discovered two years ago.




2. The Greater St Lucia Wetland Park 
iSimangaliso Wetland Park, KwaZulu-Natal
It is now known as the iSimangaliso Wetlands Park. The Park was declared a World     Heritage Site on the 1st of December 1999. The Wetlands is home to the largest Hippo      population and over 1000 crocodiles. the Wetlands has a very special visitor during   November, the Leatherback Turtle and the Loggerhead Turtle uses the protected beaches to lay their eggs.



The Leatherback Turtle
















3. Robben Island 
Robben Island, Cape Town, Western Cape
Famously known as the prison where President Nelson Mandela was held for 27 years. The   Prison was used for many reasons such as training and defence station in World War II     (1939-1945) and a hospital for people with leprosy, and the mentally and chronically ill    (1846-1931).Political and common-law  prisoners were kept on the Island during this time. 



Nelson Mandela















4.Ukhahlamba Drakensberg Park
Ukhahlamba Drakensberg Park, KwaZulu-Natal

SA-Venues describes it in perfect detail:

"The Ukhahlamba Drakensberg Park has exceptional natural beauty in its soaring basaltic buttresses, incisive dramatic cutbacks, and golden sandstone ramparts. Rolling high altitude grasslands, the pristine steep sided river valleys and rocky gorges also contribute to the beauty of this world heritage site."


Visit their site: http://www.sa-venues.com/game-reserves/kzn_drakensberg.htm



Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape, Limpopo
5. Mapungbwe Museum, Limpopo

 The two main sites, Mapungubwe and K2, were proclaimed National Monuments in the early 1980’s. Boundaries are being set for the creation of a cross-border peace Park, named Mapungubwe National Park, this is also now a World Heritage Site.







6. Cape Floral Kingdom

Cape Floral Kingdom

The famous Fynbos region is found here. It is one of the richest areas for plants in the World. It is home to 20% of the continent's flora.








 7. Vredefort Dome

This is the biggest meteorite impact that geologists have yet found on Earth and it is nearly twice as big as the impact that killed the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. It is also the oldest impact crater that has been found on Earth. It is mainly for these reasons that it has been made a World Heritage Site. 
Vredefort Dome, Free State

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