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Green Bean and Lamb Stew
Salwaa’s Green Beans Stew
A simple yet tasty recipe for green beans stew or bredie as we know it in Cape Town. Easy to make, a great idea for a healthy and nutritious meal. Here I used trimmed fine beans. Best of all 3 heaped tablespoons green beans equals one of your 5 a day.
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Ingredients:
1 Tbsp vegetable oil
600g lamb pieces
1 large onion, chopped
1½ tsp salt
2 – 3 green chillies, chopped
1 Tbsp spoon sugar, optional
3 cloves
3 all spice
1kg green beans, sliced diagonally
3 large potatoes, quartered
Green Bean Stew served with basmati rice and atchar
Method:
Wash and drain the meat. Heat the oil in a large pot and braise the onions until deep golden brown.
Add the lamb pieces and garlic and cook until nearly tender about 40 minutes adding water as necessary.
Add the salt, chillies, cloves, allspice and green beans as well as the potatoes.
Cook until the potatoes are soft and tender adding water for thinner gravy.
Serve with boiled rice and atchar. Serves 6
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Always braise meat until very dark in colour, carefully watching it, so that it doesn’t burn to get a nice dark colour stew.
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Osso Bucco, Cape Malay Style
Osso Bucco, Cape Malay Style
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Osso bucco in Italian means bone with a hole. This classic braised veal from northern Italy is the world’s best make-ahead dish —it tastes amazing on the second day. Traditionally the osso buco is made with veal shanks braised with vegetables, stock and wine. It’s served with saffron infused Risotto.
My husband bought this piece of meat the other day. I was looking for inspiration from my Facebook followers as to what cook with this cut of meat. I had suggestions from stew to soup to curry to Nihari curry and quite a few people suggested osso bucco. The name of the dish intrigued me as I have never heard of it. So, I decided to go with a recipe that Marley Roos shared with me. I’ve made a few adaptions so I’ll add the original recipe below.
All the recipes called for wine as one of the key ingredients. Well, that is clearly a NO for me, so I just decided to omit the wine and the end results were just as good, in my opinion. I also used homemade stock. I’ll share my recipe for homemade stock in a different post. This recipe is a perfect winter dish and definitely a keeper, to be repeated many times!
I started with preparing the vegetables. Chopped onions, celery sticks, garlic and carrots.
Heat 2 Tbsps butter and 2 Tbsps in a pan. Add the peeled and chopped onions, carrots, celery and garlic.
Stir fry until the onions are golden brown. Remove from heat and transfer into a large ovenproof dish.
Heat the remaining butter and oil in a large pan.
In a bowl, season the flour with salt and pepper to taste. Coat the shanks with the flour.
Add the shanks, don’t overcrowd the pan, brown well on both sides.
Continue until all the meat is browned.
Place the browned shanks on top of the vegetables.
Empty the two cans of tomatoes into the same pan you used to brown the meat in.
Add the stock, bayleaves, thyme and lemon rind.
Simmer for about 10 minutes. Pour the sauce over the shanks. Cover the dish. Bake in a preheated oven.
Bake in a preheated oven at 190 degrees Celsius for about 11⁄2 hours or until the meat is tender, stirring occasionally.
I served mine with boiled basmati rice.
Heres the full recipe:
Osso Buco, Cape Malay Style
Ingredients:
800g beef shank with marrow bone
2 tbsp butter
2 tbsp olive oil
2 large carrots
3 celery sticks
3 garlic cloves
1/2 cup cake flour
2 tsp salt
1 tsp black pepper
2 cans chopped tomatoes
1/2 litre beef stock
1 tbsp fresh thyme, chopped
3 bayleaves
Grated rind of one lemon
Chopped parsley for garnish
Method:
Heat 2 Tbsps butter and 2 Tbsps in a pan. Add the peeled and chopped onions, carrots, celery and garlic.
Stir fry until hte onions are golden brown. Remove from heat and transfer into a large ovenproof dish.
In a bowl, season the flour with salt and pepper to taste. Coat the shanks with the flour.
Heat the remaining butter and oil in a large pan.
Add the shanks, don’t overcrowd the pan, brown well on both sides.
Continue until all the meat is browned.
Place the browned shanks on top of the vegetables.
Empty the two cans of tomatoes into the same pan you used to brown the meat in.
Add the stock, bayleaves, thyme and lemon rind. Bring the sauce to the boil, season with salt and pepper if needed. At this point you could add a tablespoon or two sugar according to taste, this is totally optional. Simmer for about 10 minutes.
Pour the sauce over the shanks. Cover the dish.
Bake in a preheated oven at 190 degrees Celsius for about 11⁄2 hours or until the meat is tender, stirring occasionally.
To serve garnish with chopped parsley and grated lemon rind (I forgot to do so 😊)
I served mine with boiled basmati rice.
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Dried Fish and Cabbage
Salwaa’s Dried Fish & Cabbage
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As we discovered on our recent trip to Portugal, Bacalhau (salted cod fish), is the most popular ingredient in Portuguese cooking. Traditionally there are more than 365 different dishes, one for each day of the year.
Salted Cod – Bacalhau
This reminded me of the dried snoek and cabbage bredie my grandmother and aunty used to make. So naturally we bought a small piece of salted cod which is similar to hake as we know it.
So today I share my grandmother’s recipe with you. What are your memories of this dish?
Salwaa’s Dried Fish & Cabbage
Ingredients:
1 medium cabbage
300g saltfish
1 large onion, peeled and chopped
2 Tbsp cooking oil
3 cloves garlic, peeled and finely grated
2 green chillies, or according to taste
1/4 tsp black pepper
3 medium potatoes, peeled and cut into half
Salt, if needed
Salted Cod – Bacalhau
Method:
Soak the salt fish in water for about 30 minutes to remove excess salt.
Heat the oil in a large pot. Add the onions and garlic, sauté until golden brown.
In the meantime slice or shred the cabbage finely.
When the onion is nice and golden, add the cabbage, potatoes, chillies and pepper.
Stir and cook until the potatoes is almost soft. Add drops of water if needed.
The cabbage must be a deep golden brown.
Strain the fish in a colander, pick or cut the fish into small pieces.
Add the fish to the cabbage, stir gently to combine.
Simmer a further 10 minutes.
Taste for salt and add according to you taste buds.
Serve with white rice, homemade blatjang or lemon atchar.
Here’s my complete recipe:
Salwaa’s Dried Fish & Cabbage
Ingredients:
1 medium cabbage
300g saltfish
1 large onion, peeled and chopped
2 Tbsp cooking oil
3 cloves garlic, peeled and finely grated
2 green chillies, or according to taste
1/4 tsp black pepper
3 medium potatoes, peeled and cut into half
Salt, if needed
Method:
Soak the salt fish in water for about 30 minutes to remove excess salt.
Heat the oil in a large pot. Add the onions and garlic, sauté until golden brown.
In the meantime slice or shred the cabbage finely.
When the onion is nice and golden, add the cabbage, potatoes, chillies and pepper.
Stir and cook until the potatoes is almost soft. Add drops of water if needed.
The cabbage must be a deep golden brown.
Strain the fish in a colander, pick or cut the fish into small pieces.
Add the fish to the cabbage, stir gently to combine.
Simmer a further 10 minutes.
Taste for salt and add according to you taste buds.
Serve with white rice, homemade blatjang or lemon atchar.
Cook’s Note:
Use dried snoek or 2 tins tuna
I used a “spitskop” cabbage
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Dried Fish and Cabbage
Salwaa’s Dried Fish & Cabbage
Salwaa Smith – Cape Malay Cooking & Other Delights
From My Kitchen To Yours – keeping our heritage alive since 2011!
As we discovered on our recent trip to Portugal, Bacalhau (salted cod fish), is the most popular ingredient in Portuguese cooking. Traditionally there are more than 365 different dishes, one for each day of the year.
Salted Cod – Bacalhau
This reminded me of the dried snoek and cabbage bredie my grandmother and aunty used to make. So naturally we bought a small piece of salted cod which is similar to hake as we know it.
So today I share my grandmother’s recipe with you. What are your memories of this dish?
Salwaa’s Dried Fish & Cabbage
Ingredients:
1 medium cabbage
300g saltfish
1 large onion, peeled and chopped
2 Tbsp cooking oil
3 cloves garlic, peeled and finely grated
2 green chillies, or according to taste
1/4 tsp black pepper
3 medium potatoes, peeled and cut into half
Salt, if needed
Salted Cod – Bacalhau
Method:
Soak the salt fish in water for about 30 minutes to remove excess salt.
Heat the oil in a large pot. Add the onions and garlic, sauté until golden brown.
In the meantime slice or shred the cabbage finely.
When the onion is nice and golden, add the cabbage, potatoes, chillies and pepper.
Stir and cook until the potatoes is almost soft. Add drops of water if needed.
The cabbage must be a deep golden brown.
Strain the fish in a colander, pick or cut the fish into small pieces.
Add the fish to the cabbage, stir gently to combine.
Simmer a further 10 minutes.
Taste for salt and add according to you taste buds.
Serve with white rice, homemade blatjang or lemon atchar.
Here’s my complete recipe:
Salwaa’s Dried Fish & Cabbage
Ingredients:
1 medium cabbage
300g saltfish
1 large onion, peeled and chopped
2 Tbsp cooking oil
3 cloves garlic, peeled and finely grated
2 green chillies, or according to taste
1/4 tsp black pepper
3 medium potatoes, peeled and cut into half
Salt, if needed
Method:
Soak the salt fish in water for about 30 minutes to remove excess salt.
Heat the oil in a large pot. Add the onions and garlic, sauté until golden brown.
In the meantime slice or shred the cabbage finely.
When the onion is nice and golden, add the cabbage, potatoes, chillies and pepper.
Stir and cook until the potatoes is almost soft. Add drops of water if needed.
The cabbage must be a deep golden brown.
Strain the fish in a colander, pick or cut the fish into small pieces.
Add the fish to the cabbage, stir gently to combine.
Simmer a further 10 minutes.
Taste for salt and add according to you taste buds.
Serve with white rice, homemade blatjang or lemon atchar.
Cook’s Note:
Use dried snoek or 2 tins tuna
I used a “spitskop” cabbage
Koesister Pre-Mix
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Chocolate Fridge Tart
No-Bake Chocolate Fridge Tart
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An elegant chocolate tart. The bright red of the strawberries and the green of the pistachios goes beautifully with the dark chocolate. This incredibly easy, no-bake chocolate tart is made with a simple Oreo crust and rich chocolate ganache filling made with both milk and dark chocolates.
Ingredients:
2½ packets chocolate cookies (Oreo or similar)
100g butter, melted
350g milk chocolate
150g dark chocolate
300ml fresh cream / double cream
Strawberries for garnishing
Crushed pistachios, optional
Method:
Finely crush the biscuits and mix it with the melted butter.
Line a 20cm non-stick fluted loose bottom tart tin with the biscuit mixture. Use a spoon and your fingers to get an even layer into the bottom and edges of the tin. Freeze whilst preparing the filing.
Using a small pot heat the cream over low to medium. Break the chocolate into small pieces. Add the pieces of chocolate to the warm cream and stir till the chocolate has melted. Pour the chocolate mixture onto the biscuit base. Top with strawberries and crushed pistachios. Refrigerate at least 2 hours or overnight before serving.
Cook’s Notes:
It’s best to use a dark chocolate which contains 50-90% cocoa solids, cocoa butter, and sugar. For best results make the tart a day in advance. This chocolate tart will keep, covered well, for up to 4-5 days in the fridge, but I guarantee it wont last that long!
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Spicy Meatballs
Spicy Meatballs
Spice meatballs served with flat bread and a yoghurt salad. Quick, refreshing and very easy to make for a light meal on a hot summer’s day.
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Ingredients:
500g minced beef, chicken or lamb (washed and drained)
1 finely chopped onion
2 cloves of garlic, crushed or finely chopped
1 green chilli, finely chopped
1 tsp garam masala
1 tsp jeera/cumin
1 tsp paprika
1 tsp cayenne pepper
Handful chopped dhanya
Salt to taste
Oil for frying
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Method:
Add the onions and spices to the minced meat and knead the mixture well. Pop the mixture in the fridge for about 1 hour to allow flavours to develop.
Shape the mixture into small meatballs then fry in a little oil till browned and cooked through. Serve with flat bread, salad and yoghurt sauce. Serves 4
Flat Bread
4 cups wholemeal flour
1 cup lukewarm water
1/2 tsp salt
4 tbsp butter (optional)
Pour the flour and into mixing bowl. Make a well in the middle of the flour. Gradually pour in the water and mix to make a dough. You may need more water but start with a cup full. Turn out onto a floured surface and kneed for 5 – 8 minutes until smooth and elastic like. Place the dough back in the bowl and leave to rest for 30 minutes. Divide the dough into 10 -15 pieces, depending on how big you want the bread. Roll out into a flat disk on a floured surface. Heat a dry frying pan until hot and cook one at a time. Cook each side until it begins to puff up, about 1 – 2 minutes on each side. Smear each side of the flat bread with butter, if using. Wrap it in foil to keep warm whilst the other bread are being baked. These flat breads may be used as tortilla wrappers if rolled out very thinly. Makes 10 – 15 flat breads.
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Homemade Bread
Homemade Baked Bread
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From My Kitchen To Yours – keeping our traditions alive!
Fancy making your own bread? Baking homemade bread needn’t be difficult, here’s my easy recipe for a delicious crusty loaf of bread. My recipe makes 2 medium size loaves.
Ingredients:
4 cups bread flour
1 sachet instant yeast (7g)
1 Tbsp sugar
1 tsp salt
1 ½ – 1 ¾ cups lukewarm water
Oil for greasing
1 Tbsp melted butter
Method:
In a large bowl add the flour, salt, sugar and yeast. Stir to mix, make a little well in the centre, add the water. Start with one and half cups first. If the dough is too dry add the remaining quarter cup water little bit at a time. You may not need all the water. A wet dough is better than a dry one which will result in a tough bread texture.
Knead well for 10 – 15 minutes. The dough should be smooth and shouldn’t stick to your hands after kneading.
Grease a bowl with little oil. One to two teaspoons oil should be enough. You just want to prevent the dough from sticking to the bowl. Place dough in the bowl. Cover with plastic wrap and leave to rise in a warm place. Depending on the weather it can take between 1½ to 2 hours.
Punch down. Place in prepared loaf tins, (grease the tins well with oil) and leave to rise until double in volume.
Bake at 190°C for 35-40 minutes.
Turn out and cool on wire rack. To check if the bread is baked through, tap bottom of the loaf, it should sound hollow. Brush melted butter over the loaf whilst still warm.
This bread was made from my basic bread recipe. Shaped in a fluted mould pan, dusted with dry flour before baking. Served with butter and homemade fig jam. Learn how to make my fig jam here.
Dusted with flour before baking
Common bread faults and causes
Lack of volume, heavy and closed texture.
- Dough is too tight due to insufficient liquid.
- Too much salt added.
- Not enough yeast.
- Dough over fermented, causing the gas pockets to break down.
- Low gluten content due to incorrect flour used
- Insufficient kneading or proving
Dough collapsing when placed into the oven
- Over proving
Lack of crust colour
- Dough over fermented
- Lack of salt
- Oven too cool
Uneven texture with holes and crust breaks away
- Oven too hot
- Insufficient proving
- Dough left uncovered during proving and surface dried out
Bread is doughy in the middle
Taken out of the oven too early, not enough baking time.
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Cape Malay Little Chef Club
Greetings
Here follows an update on our future activities at Salwaa’s Cape Malay Kitchen.
In addition to our frozen and spice ranges we offer cooking and baking classes for kids aged 7 – 18yrs during school holidays.
We also offer baking sessions for birthday parties. Minimum 10 kids per party.
Bookings are now open for our Little Chef Cooking Club
Monday 2/7
Biscuits Making (7-15yrs)
Tuesday 3/7
Burger Making (7-15yrs)
Wednesday 4/7
Cupcake or Chocolate Cake Making (7-15yrs)
Thursday 5/7
Roti & Curry (12-18yrs)
Time: 13:30-16:30
Venue: Salwaa’s Cape Malay Kitchen, 5 Alleman Road, Newfields
Instructors: Salwaa & Tohierah
Price: R100 per session
50% deposit secures your child’s place. Limited place available.
To Book:
WhatsApp 0719249583
Price includes cooking / baking activities, ingredients, children get to take their creations home at the end of the session. Refreshments (cold drink) will be available.
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Homemade Corned Beef (Sout Vleis)
Homemade Corned Beef (Sout Vleis)
Corned beef served with homemade bread or homemade bread rolls are traditionally served on Eid mornings for breakfast. Very often this will be accompanied by pastei (a large minced meat or steak and kidney pie)
There’s still a couple of days left if you want to start making your own corned beef. 🙂 Homemade corned beef is very easy to make and very inexpensive compared to shop bought corned beef.
Homemade bread rolls filled with homemade corned beef
Ingredients:
4 ½ litres water
2 cups salt
½ cup sugar
5 tsp pink salt*
2 tsp garlic (crushed)
4 Tbsp pickling spice**
2 ½ kg beef brisket, topside or silverside
Spices
Method:
Combine the water, salt, sugar, pink salt, garlic and 2 tablespoons pickling spice in a large deep pot. Bring it to a simmer, stirring until the salt and sugar are dissolved. Remove the pot from the heat and allow to cool to room temperature, then refrigerate the mixture until it’s completely chilled.
Place the brisket in the mixture (brine). Put a plate on top of the meat to keep it submerged in the brine. Refrigerate and leave to marinade for 7 days.
Submerge the beef in the brine for seven days.
Remove the corned meat from the brine and rinse it thoroughly under cool running water.
Ready to be cooked
Cooking the corned beef:
Place the brisket in a pot large enough to hold it and add enough water to cover the meat. Add the remaining 2 tablespoons and bring to a boil. Reduce the heat, cover, and simmer gently for 3 hours or until the brisket is soft and tender. Ensure the brisket is covered with water all the time whilst cooking. Add more water if it gets too low.
Remove the corned beef from the water. Allow to cool, slice the corned beef and serve warm or cool, then wrap and refrigerate until you’re ready to serve. Corned beef can be refrigerated for up to a week.
*Pink salt is available from spice shops
**Homemade Pickling Spice
Ingredients
•2 tablespoons mustard seed.
•1 tablespoon whole allspice.
•2 teaspoons coriander seeds.
•2 whole cloves.
•1 teaspoon ground ginger.
•1 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes.
•1 bay leaf, crumbled.
•1 cinnamon stick
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Boeber
Salwaa’s Boeber
A traditional South African Cape Malay recipe, the taste is so rich and sugary. Boeber is made of milk, vermicelli, sago, sugar or condensed milk flavoured with cardamoms, stick cinnamon and rose water. If you like a “thicker” boeber add more sago. Boeber is traditionally served on the fifteenth night of Ramadan to celebrate the middle of the fast. The evening of the 15th day of Ramadaan is special for those who had fasted the first 15 days. They are known as people who are ‘op die berg’ Many, many years ago after the taraweegh salaah, boeber was served at the mosques. Every family also made boeber for this particular night. After Taraweegh salaah, boeber was also sold at boeber houses at two pence a glass. There, friends would assemble and, if it were a Friday or Saturday, would stay up until sower (suhur) and then go to the masjid for Fajr.
To make boeber you will need the following:
50g butter
3/4 cup sago
200 ml water to soak the sago
250 ml vermicelli
3 cinnamon sticks
5 cardamoms
50 g sultanas (optional)
1.5 – 2 liters milk
1/2 tin condensed milk or sugar to taste
1 tin evaporated milk (optional)
1/4 cup of desiccated coconut
15 ml rose water (optional)
50 g blanched almonds (optional)
Method:
Soak the sago in the water for about 15 minutes. Meanwhile, melt the butter in a saucepan.
When it has melted, add the vermicelli and toss it so that the butter covers it and it starts to go golden brown.
Add the cardamom, cinnamon and the sultanas.
Stir before pouring the milk into the pan.
Bring to the boil before adding the pre-soaked sago and then simmer for about 30 minutes stirring constantly otherwise it will stick. Add evaporated milk. The sago should become transparent.
Add the rose water (if using), condensed milk, coconut and almonds and continue to simmer for another 10 minutes or so. Serve hot and enjoy this rich, spicy drink…
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