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Bobotie – South African Curried Mince & Egg Bake
Bobotie is a traditional dish with dutch origns. Introduced through the Cape Malay community, this popular dish spread to other parts of Africa and now the world. It might sound a bit unusual if you aren’t familiar with dutch curries – often flavoured with curry powder and sweetened with fruit. This is in contrast with Indian curries, which are more often flavoured with whole spices and served in a sauce enriched by nuts or yogurt. Relatively quick and easy to prepare, Bobotie can easily be scaled up to feed a large crowd. This particular recipe is quite simple and a great introduction to these flavours. Peach chutney is a star…
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Nourishing Rice Pudding
This nourishing rice pudding recipe makes an excellent snack, dessert or sweet breakfast choice. Specifically designed on my quest to research and develop combinations of traditional comforting favourites with ayuvedic principles to balance vata dosha. These principles are especially helpful for aiding with digestion, supporting mental wellbeing and nourishing the body. There isn’t anything particularly difficult to access in this recipe and this nourishing rice pudding recipe contains no buzz word superfood ingredients. It’s well worth making as a gesture of love to share with friends or for yourself. The warm spices and creamy textures are comforting and the pudding leaves you feeling satisfied without being too dense or heavy.…
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Sourdough English Muffins
These deeply flavoured sourdough english muffins are the perfect savoury base for a wide range of breakfast and snack options. The extra long cold fermentation times allow for the natural yeasts and bacteria to break down sugars in the flour and produce the tasty levels of lactic and acetic acids that give characteristic sourdough flavours. if you don’t have a flat sandwich toaster you can cook these sourdough english muffins on the flat hot plate of a BBQ or a frypan . The convenience and the size of this appliance makes cooking a large batch of these muffins a breeze. Because of the extra long preparation time, it’s well worth…
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Hearty Beef Stew with Polenta & Mash Topping
This hearty beef stew is the perfect combination of rustic comfort food and refined savoury flavours. Leaning heavily on pantry staples for the seasoning and topping, the heart of this meal is in it’s slowly simmered filling paired with fluffy dumplings that soak up all the delicious sauce. This meal is great to prep in advance and can be completed up to the topping stage to be finished later. Once the stew has cooled, you can spoon on the cooled topping, seal well and freeze up to 3mths or refrigerate if you’re going to finish the cooking in the next two days. It’s a great family gathering dish and pairs…
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French Onion Potato Bake
Not for the feint of heart, this French Onion Potato Bake is incredibly rich and full of bold onion flavour. A great accompaniment to a fresh, crisp green salad & BBQ meats. It’s intense, but in a good way. The overnight onions should produce plenty of leftovers. There’s ideally enough in the recipe to make two batches of this potato bake, depending on how heavy handed you are with the onions. It can be easy to overpower the whole thing though so it’s best to err on the side of being more cautious in this case. This assembled recipe doesn’t freeze particularly well, but it can be done if you…
