3 dishes people actually cook in South Africa: what they are, how long they take, and what you need to buy.
What can you cook from South Africa? 3 traditional South Africa dishes, from Boerewors braai (70 min, the quickest) to Bunny chow (120 min, the longest). Each recipe is written step by step with full ingredient lists, free to read.
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Curried minced beef sweetened with raisins and apricot jam, baked under a savoury egg-and-milk custard studded with bay leaves.
A coil of coriander-spiced farmer's sausage braaied whole over wood coals, never pricked, and eaten in a roll with tomato-and-onion relish or on pap.
A quarter of an unsliced white loaf hollowed out and filled with Durban lamb curry and potatoes, the scooped-out crumb served on top for mopping up.
Copper documents three dishes from South Africa: Bobotie, Boerewors braai and Bunny chow. Onion and tomatoes each appear in more than one recipe. Two of the three are simmered. One of the three needs an oven. Between them they use 26 different ingredients.
The three recipes need 26 ingredients between them, of which 2 are shared by more than one dish. Copper's atlas covers 586 dishes from 198 countries, and these three are the South Africa entries. Every ingredient list on this page is complete, with quantities, and free to read.
Boerewors braai is the quickest at 70 minutes. Bunny chow is the longest at 120 minutes, most of it unattended. The median is 80 minutes — a weekend dish rather than a weeknight one.
Boerewors braai is rated easy — start there. The full method is on its recipe page, step by step, free to read.
South Africa is part of Southern African.
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