Main dish, African Recetas

Slow-cooked pork in banana leaves

Cooking the pork in smoked banana leaves gives the dish an unbelievable flavour.

Mussels in chilli and avocado sauce

Beer marinated pork chops

When selecting pork chops for this dish make sure they are evenly sliced so that they are all ready at the same time. The chops should also have a…

Traditional Cape (South African) fish cake

Fish cakes are very much a Cape food and most white fish is suitable for fish cakes although I remember my…

Boiled Mutton with Caper Sauce

Boiled Mutton? sounds awful, believe me a great,simple meal but use MUTTON not Lamb . This is an old favourite of the Camdeboo farmers in the Great…

Tagine of Chicken with Preserved Lemons, Olives & Artichoke Hearts

Since I just finished preserving lemons I needed something to try them out…

Pepper-crusted ostrich fillet

you can substitute with beef fillet–it also work well with the bite of pepper and the tangy ginger-lemon sauce. Fillet is a lovely meat to use…

Smoked salmon velouté pasta

The secret of this dish is in the sauce or velouté, which is basically a creamy cheese sauce that adds a whole new dimension to pasta and can be…

Delicious seafood curry

Seafood makes delicious curries as long as you don’t add too many spices which kill its delicate flavours. There are hundreds of different…

Pork Chop with Apple Salad

Pork and apple form a very tasty relationship, Apples are particularly tasty when oven-roasted with pork or when mashed in with potatoes and…

Moroccan chickpea and lentil stew

Tasty, flavorful stew ideal for UN dieters and vegetarians.

A Stupendous One Dish Wonder, Moroccan Chicken Stew

This sweet and savory stew is unbelievably easy to make, soooo delicious and ready in 35 minutes. It’s not only…

Spicy Baked Fish

Seafood and hot spices make a very tasty dish for summer and it is well-suited to a variety of salads, particularly with the traditional Lebanese…

Tuna Pie

Tuna and specifically canned tuna is hardly the food of connoisseurs and many foodies have yet to come out the closet when it comes to using canned…

Spicy Sweet Potato and Chick Pea Parcels with Eggplant Sauce

Delicately spiced pastry parcels filled with sweet potato, chick peas, spinach, apricots and almonds served…