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Tropical Chicken
Tropical Chicken
Tasteful pineapple infused chicken. This versatile recipe can be cooked in the oven or on the braai. Serve with a coleslaw salad. Perfect for the hot summer days. Cool and refreshing!
Tropical Chicken
Ingredients:
1 whole chicken
2 Tbsp chilli sauce
1 Tbsp honey
½ cup pineapple juice
Juice of 1 lime
¼ cup soy sauce
2 tsp grated fresh ginger
1 tsp crushed garlic
1 tsp paprika
Method:
Cut the chicken into 4 or 8 pieces or spatchcock.
Wash and dry the chicken pieces with kitchen towel.
Put the chicken in a ziplock bag, glass or stainless steel bowl.
Combine the rest of the ingredients in a small bowl.
Pour the marinate over the chicken.
Mix to ensure all the chicken pieces are covered with the marinate.
Cover the bowl with plastic wrap or seal the bag.
Refrigerate the marinated chicken overnight to let the flavours infuse.
Allow the chicken to come to room temperature before roasting or braaing (BBQing).
Use the sauce to baste the chicken during cooking or braaing.
Roast the chicken in a preheated oven at 220⁰ Celsius for 30 minutes or until the chicken is a deep golden brown and is cooked through, turning once during the cooking time.
Alternatively, braai the chicken over medium heat.
Tropical Chicken
Cook’s tip how to spatchcock a chicken:
Cut down either side of the backbone with a pair of scissors. Remove the spine and keep aside for making chicken stock. Turn the breast side up and flatten the chicken by pressing down the heel of your hand.
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Caramel Cookies
Crunchy Caramel Cookies
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I developed this recipe after extensive research and I have to admit my children, who are my biggest critics, loved it.
Ingredients:
250g soft butter
2 cups brown sugar
2 tsps caramel essence
2 large eggs
3 cups self-raising flour
½ tsp bicarbonate of soda
2 cups caramel chips
1 cup chopped walnuts
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Method:
Preheat the oven to 180 degrees Celsius. Line baking trays with greaseproof paper.
Cream together the butter and sugar. Beat in the caramel essence and eggs.
Sift in the self-raising flour and bicarbonate of soda. Mix until the flour is incorporated with the butter mixture. Add the caramel chips and walnuts. Mix until combined. The dough will be a soft consistency.
Spoon a dessertspoon of the cookie mixture on to the baking trays and just let it drop off the spoon, you may want to use another spoon or you finger to push it off the spoon. The cookies will spread quite alot so leave lots of space in between .
Bake in a preheated oven for about 15 – 20 minutes. If you want a soft chewy cookie remove at 15 minutes if a crunchy cookie is required bake 5 minutes longer. Leave to cool on the baking tray, when completely cold move to a cooling rack. Makes about 36 cookies.
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Meatless Monday
Meatless Monday, here’s my recipes for brown lentil curry, dhal curry and puris. Enjoy
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Dhal, Lentil Curry , Puris
Brown Lentil Curry
Boil 1 cup brown lentils for approximately 30 minutes or until semi soft. Pour it into a colander and rinse thoroughly.
In the mean time braise an onion in a tablespoon of oil until golden brown. Add 1 tsp crushed garlic and 1 tsp crushed ginger. Add a chopped tomato and 1 tsp tomato paste as well 1-2 chillies finely chopped (chillies are optional)
Add to onion mixture
3 cardamoms
1 piece stick cinnamon
1 tsp salt
1 tsp turmeric / borrie
1 tsp coriander / koljana
1 tsp cumin / jeera
1/2 – 1 crushed chilies
2 tsp leaf masala / roasted masala
Cook the spice mixture for about 15 minutes, adding water as necessary. Then add the boiled and rinsed lentils. Cook a further 10 minutes.
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Add 2 large peeled and quarter potatoes and cook for further 15 minutes on slow heat until the potatoes are soft.
Stir in a handful of chopped Dhunya.
Salwaa’s Tarka Dhal Curry
2 cups of dhal washed and drain
Cook until soft with 1tsp each garlic, ginger, salt and turmeric approximately 30 minutes
Add water as needed
Braise one large onion in a separate pan
Add 2-3 chillies
Add 1/2 tsp mustard seeds
Add one large tomato cut in small pieces to onion mixture.
When dhal is soft and ready stir onion mixture into dhal and garnish generously with dhanya
You may add a tbsp of butter as well.
Salwaa’s Puris (quick and easy)
Ingredients:
2 cups self-raising flour or for each cup of normal flour use 1 tsp of baking powder to make your own self-raising flour
½ teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon sugar
Enough buttermilk to make soft, roll able dough or ( take one cup of milk add 1 tbs of vinegar or lemon juice ) to make your own buttermilk
Oil for deep frying
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Mix all the ingredients together in a mixing bowl. Knead dough for a few minutes until dough no longer sticks to your hands or surface. Leave dough to rest for a few minutes. Roll out very thinly, cut into circles, rectangles, any shape that takes your fancy!! Fry in hot oil until puri puffs up, 2 minutes, turn and fry the other side.
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EnjoyServe with boiled white rice, rotis, puris.
Dhal Curry
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Egg Loaf
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Nothing beats the smell of freshly baked bread. Sink your teeth into a slice of warm bread covered with a generous layer of butter. Imagine… Now stop imagining and bake one today. It’s not difficult, in fact this recipe of my mom is very easy to follow. The result are better still if you have an electric mixer to do all the kneading 😉
I remember my mom turning 2.5kg of flour into stunning bread of all types every Sunday. She would start mid morning after the lunch prep been done and that’s cooking away to on side. By 3pm the afternoon our home will be filled with the lovely smell of baking bread.
Come supper time it will be served with polony, spiced beef, cheese or left over chicken roast of lunch time. Good memories to last a life time and which I’m now trying to recreate with my family.
Here is our recipe for an egg loaf which is a soft and tasty braided loaf of home-made bread. This recipe make one large loaf or 2 small ones.
Ingredients:
4 cups cake flour / plain
2 tsp sugar
1 tsp salt
3 Tbsp butter
2 Tbsp oil
1 cup lukewarm milk
2 large eggs, beaten
1 packet instant yeast (7g)
For the topping:
1 egg, beaten
Sesame or poppy seeds
Method:
Combine the flour, salt, sugar in a large bowl. Add yeast.
Melt the butter, add the oil, stir in the beaten eggs.
Add the milk to the butter and eggs mixture.
Now add the liquid to the dry ingredients. Mix until combined, then turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead for about 15-20 minutes until soft and elastic. (the dough should not stick to your hands). If you have a large electric mixer you may use it with the dough hooks to help ease the process of kneading.
Grease the mixing bowl slightly and return the dough into the bowl. Cover the bowl with oiled plastic wrap. Leave to rise for about 60 -90 minutes until well risen and at least double in size.
Grease a large baking tin with butter
Gently punch the dough down, form into shape and place into baking tin.
Or braid the dough as follows:
After punching down the dough divide it into 3 equal pieces. Roll each of the 3 pieces of fought between your hands making 3 ropes. Line it side by six on a floured surface.
With the 3 ropes of dough lined up, begin the braid at the centre. Braid loosely from centre to end from both sides. Pinch and tuck in the ends.
Transfer the braided loaf gently into the greased baking tin.
Cover loosely with oiled plastic wrap and leave to rise in a warm, draft free area for 30 minutes or until double in size.
Brush with beaten egg. Sprinkle with sesame seeds (optional)
Bake on middle shelf of oven at 200° Celsius for 35-45 minutes or until the bread is golden brown. Remove loaf from the tin and let it cool on a cooling rack before slicing.
Makes 1 large or 2 smaller loaves.
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Brood Porring
Brood Porring Served With Served Stewed Fruit
Bread Pudding / Brood Porring
Ingredients:
6 – 8 large slices of white bread
1 litre milk
6 large eggs
1 cup sugar
2 teaspoons custard powder
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground cardamom
1/4 cup raisins, optional
4 tablespoons butter
Method:
Remove the crusts of the bread, cut the bread into squares. Soak the bread in the milk until soft.
Using an electric mixer, mix the eggs, custard powder and sugar together until the sugar has dissolved.
Add cinnamon and cardamom.
Mix in the bread and milk mixture.
Grease a 2 litre oven proof dish with half of the butter.
Gently pour the bread pudding mixture into the dish. Dot the remaining butter on top.
Bake in a preheated oven at 180° Celsius for 50 – 60 minutes, or until firm.
Cool slightly before eating. Serve with stewed dried fruit or apricot jam.
Stewed Dried Fruit
250g mixed dried fruit (I used only prunes and apricots here)
1 cup water
1/2 cup sugar
1 stick cinnamon
2 cloves
1 tsp lemon juice
Method:
Add all the ingredients, except the dried fruit and lemon juice, in a deep saucepan. Bring to the boil. Cook until sticky. Add the dried fruit and lemon juice. Cooks further 10 minutes until the dried fruit are soft. Add little water if the syrup becomes too sticky. Serve with bread pudding or potato pudding.
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Chicken Kiev
Stuffed Chicken Breast
Oven cooked chicken breast stuffed with spinach, mozzarella and feta cheese.
Salwaa Smith – Cape Malay Cooking & Other Delights
Ingredients:
6 large chicken breasts
Salt and pepper for seasoning
1½ tsp minced garlic
3 Tbsp olive oil
1 bag baby spinach (300g)
100g butter, melted
200g feta cheese
1 cup grated mozzarella cheese
3 cups fine bread crumbs
Salt and pepper for seasoning
Method:
Slice the chicken in half, cover the chicken with plastic wrap. Use a rolling pin roll or beat the chicken breast until it is very thin.
Heat a large saucepan. Add the spinach, garlic and olive oil cook until the spinach has wilted. Add the crumbled feta and grated mozzarella cheese.
Season the breasts with salt and pepper to taste. Divide the spinach mixture evenly between the chicken breasts. Spread it evenly over the breasts. Roll the chicken up to cover the spinach. Cover each of the stuffed chicken breasts in the bread crumbs, make sure it is covered completely. Transfer into a baking dish. Make sure the “seam” is facing down.
Pour the melted butter over the crumbed chicken. Bake / grill in a preheated oven at 200 degrees Celsius for 30 minutes or until golden brown and cooked through. Serve with a green salad.
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Malva Pudding
Deliciously moist pudding, serve with custard or enjoy on its own. Makes one large pudding or divide into ramekins.
Ingredients:
1 1/2 cups sugar
2 large eggs
2 cups milk
2 tsp brown vinegar
2 Tbsp smooth apricot jam
2 Tbsp butter
2 cups cake flour,(plain) sifted
1 tsp bicarbonate of soda
Method:
Preheat oven to 180° Celsius. Cream together sugar, jam and eggs. Melt butter and add vinegar add this to the sugar and egg mixture. Add the milk, flour and bicarb, mix well to combine all the ingredients. Pour into a pyrex dish (or something similar) and bake for 45 – 60 minutes. If you using ramekins the time will be considerably shorter. You’ll know its baked when the top is browned and a toothpick inserted in the middle comes out clean. Remove from the oven and pour the warm sauce over. Makes 6 – 8
TO MAKE THE SAUCE:
1 cup milk
1/2 cup boiling water
1/2 cup sugar
3 teaspoons butter
1 teaspoon caramel essence
Melt all the ingredients in a saucepan over low heat an pour over the cake.
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OR USE THIS RECIPE FOR A CREAMY SAUCE
250ml Cream
125ml butter
125ml sugar
125ml water/Orange juice
Melt together as per above sauce and pour over warm pudding
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Sago Pudding
Cape Malay Cooking & Other Delights – Salwaa Smith
Perfect dessert for the cold weather! Takes less than 90 minutes to prepare and bake. This recipe can easily be doubled to serve more than 4 – 6 people.
Ingredients:
4 cups milk
1 cup sago
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon ground nutmeg or 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/2 cup sugar
5 tablespoons butter plus extra for greasing
2 tablespoon custard powder (optional)
1 teaspoon vanilla
4 large eggs
1/2 cup sugar (extra)
Method:
Preheat the oven at 160° Celsius.
Grease a large pudding dish with butter.
Heat milk to nearly boiling, then add sago, salt, and nutmeg or cinnamon.
Simmer over very low heat until sago is transparent.
Mix custard powder with half a cup of water / milk and add to mixture
Add the 1/2 cup sugar, butter and vanilla, and stir in well. Remove from heat.
Separate the eggs, and whisk the yolks. Add yolks to the sago mixture, whisk or mix until combined.
Whisk the egg whites until stiff, and add the extra 1/2 cup sugar slowly, whisking until incorporated.
Gently fold the egg whites into the sago mixture.
Bake in the preheated oven for about 40 – 45 minutes, until set and the pudding is light brown on top.
Serve warm
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