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South Africa: Recipes and Cuisine

Table Mountain above Cape Town, South Africa

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The cooking of South Africa, often called "rainbow cuisine," is a mixture of indigenous African dishes, the cooking of Dutch and English settlers and the well spiced foods of Malays, Indians and Indonesians who were brought to South Africa as slaves and servants in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Typical South African Dishes

South African Recipes

Try these recipes from South Africa.

Chakalaka

Pot of chakalaka on the stove

(South African spicy tomato, pepper and onion dish)

Samosas

Samosas (Indian, Pakistani deep-fried potato pastries)

(Indian, Pakistani, African deep-fried potato pastries)

Bobotie

Bobotie (South African curried meat casserole)

(South African curried meat casserole)

Bredie

Pot of simmering lamb and potato bredie

(South African lamb stew)

Boerewors

South African boerewors on the grill

(South African homemade farmer's sausage)

Sosaties

Sosaties lamb and apricot skewers

(South African curry-marinated lamb and apricot kebabs)

Geelrys

Geelrys (South African yellow rice with raisins)

(South African yellow rice with raisins)

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