Recipes for traditional and contemporary South African cooking and baking.

How to make boerewors

A simple boerewors recipe to start from.

Knitwit bran rusks

Sunflower seed and bran rusks.

Lepelsteeltjies (cheesy jam-hole biscuits)

Tiny biscuits made from cheddar cheese, with a bit of apricot jam in the centre.

fritters

Deep fried pumpkin fritters with caramel syrup (Pampoen-poffers en stroop)

Colourful pumpkin fritters with perfectly balanced cinnamon caramel sauce.

Ginger tart (gemmertert)

A classic South African treat.

Marmite and cheese cake

Small cakes with a rich marmite-and-cheese topping.

Baked fruit salad pudding (vrugte-kelkie poeding)

The comforting richness of a wintery oven-baked pudding, combined with the fresh flavours of fruit salad.

Springbok shooters (Springbokkies)

A South African shooter, made from Amarula Cream and peppermint liqueur.

Peppermint crisp shooters (peppermint crispies)

The liquor equivalent of the incredibly popular peppermint crisp tart.

Barbecued sandwiches (braai-broodjies)

Crunchy brown on the outside, but soft and wonderfully flavoursome inside.

Melktert shooters (melktertjies)

A modern shooter that smells and tastes like melktert (South African milk tart).

Sweet and sour beans (sousbone)

Made from speckled "sugar beans".

Cape onion salad (slaphakskeentjies)

Old fashioned small pickled onions, in a tangy, piquant sauce,

Meat balls (frikkadelle) in tomato, wine, and onion sauce

South African meat balls in a heart-warming tomato, onion, and wine sauce.

Maize porridge pie (paptert)

Rich, moist, savoury tart made from South African maize porridge.

Unbaked milk tart (ongebakte melktert)

Easy, delicious milk tart that can be made on a stove or in a microwave oven.

Date Squares

Squares or balls made from dates and crushed biscuits, unbaked but refrigerated.

Oven baked fish

Creamy oven baked fish, guaranteed to warm up a cold winter's evening

Melkkos

Comforting milk and cinnamon dish that can be served as a meal any time of the day.

Sago pudding with meringue topping

Combining cinnamon and apricot jam, this sago pudding is creamy, comforting, and quite representative of South African cooking.