African recipes

These South African recipes bring out true Springbok flavours
- PUBLISHED: Fri 26 Apr 2013, 12:59 PM UPDATED: Tue 7 Apr 2015, 8:32 PM
BEEF RIB MEAT BURGER
Serves: 1
Ingredients
Australian beef short ribs,
boneless, trimmed, fat
removed 250 gm
Water 200 ml
BBQ sauce 100 ml
Salt and pepper to taste
Olive oil 10 ml
Rosemary, thyme and parsley 5 gm each
To finish:
Large tomato 2 slices
Iceburg lettuce 25 gm
Tomato sauce 20 gm
Hamburger bun 2 buns
Method
Cut rib meat into 2 portions.
In a hot pan, add the olive oil and seal the rib meat, adding salt and pepper.
Place rib meat in a roasting tray, mix all the ingredients together and add to the tray so meat is coated.
Cover tray with foil, braise in an oven at 140°C for two hours and shake the tray so it doesn’t stick. If required, add a little more liquid. Leave to cool.
Pan-fry, or grill the rib meat on an oiled grill. Brush with BBQ sauce.
Toast the burger buns and butter the bottom half. Spread tomato sauce on the other half of bun.
Cut the cooked rib meat into two portions of 125 gm each. On the bottom half of the buns, place the rib meat, lettuce, a tomato slice, then cover with the bun tops. Serve with chips.
CHICKEN LIVERS
Serves: 4
Ingredients
Chicken liver 400 gm
Pepper, green 80 gm
Pepper, yellow 80 gm
Pepper, green 80 gm
Onion, Spanish 80 gm
Leek 40 gm
Plain flour 10 gm
Sunflower oil 200 ml
Olive oil 10 ml
Salt and pepper to taste
Butter to taste
Ciabatta bread 4 slices
Method
Cut the leek into thin slices. Mix in plain flour and deep fry until crisp. Dice peppers and onion. Pan-fry in olive oil and keep warm.
Pan-fry chicken liver for 4–5 minutes on both sides, until brown and crispy on the outside and slightly pink inside. Cut bread into squares, spread butter and add salt and pepper to taste; toast in an oven at 180˚C for 4-5 minutes. Place the bread (crouton) on a plate. Add livers on top. Garnish with peppers and onion, and fried leek on top.
MALVA PUDDING
Serves: 4
Ingredients
Flour 600 gm
Butter 300 gm
Baking powder 20 gm
Apricot jam 250 gm
Bicarbonate of soda 5 gm
Egg 5 each
Milk 500 ml
Sugar 500 gm
For the butterscotch sauce:
Brown sugar 350 gm
Caster sugar 350 gm
Butter 100 gm
Double cream 600 ml
For the apricot coulis:
Apricot halves, tinned 1 kg
Caster sugar 400 gm
Method
Whisk eggs and sugar in a mixing bowl until the sugar dissolves.
Mix the rest of the ingredients together in a separate bowl, then add in the egg and sugar mixture.
Transfer the mix into a baking tray, and cook in the oven at 180°C for about 30 minutes.
For the sauce, melt the brown sugar on low heat. When it crystallises, add the caster sugar and allow that to crystallise as well.
Add butter while stirring constantly; add cream and whisk till it thickens.
For the apricot coulis, drain the liquid from apricots, add sugar and mix together. Add the butterscotch sauce and the apricot coulis to the pudding, and serve.



