African Recipes
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There is a large growth of popular interest in Africa and its culture that has grown over the past few years. From sewing with African fabrics which are selling not only in the new 'Afro' shops but also in big department stores.
African cuisine combines traditional fruits and vegetables, exotic game and fish from the oceans that surround the continent. African cooking, like Africa itself, embodies elements of several cultures - Arab, European, and Asian as well as black African. It is varied, it is interesting, and it is delicious. Not well known in the West, it is growing in popularity as immigrants bring the dishes of their country to small family restaurants in the West. To categorize "African Food" would be impossible just as it would be impossible to state the cuisine of any continent by one name.
Food in Africa is perhaps more important in everyday social relations than it is in western cultures. African hospitality is without parallel anywhere else in the world. In many parts of Africa the arrival of a guest is followed almost automatically by the offering of food. It is an insult not to offer it, and, even is one is not hungry, it is an insult not to accept.
| African Culinary Notes and Glossary |
African "Chop"
Avocado Stuffed with Smoked FishBaked Ground Lamb Curry
Beef and Cassava Stew
Beef and Mustard Greens
Beef in Red Pepper Sauce
Beef Pie (Bobotie)
Beskuit (Rusks)
Boer Chicken Pie (Hoender Pastei)
Braised Chicken with Green Chilies
Braised Meat Patties with Nutmeg
Broiled Marinated Shrimp
Cabbage Rolls with Frikkadels
Cape Malay Bean Soup
Coconut Pie (Klappertert)
Cold Avocado and Tomato Soup
Cold Buttermilk Soup
Cold Fish and Potato Salad
Crayfish Curry
Cucumber and Potato Soup
Curried Fish SoupDeep-Fried Fish Balls
Doro Alicha (Ethiopia)
Doro Wat (Ethiopia)
Doro Wat 2 (Ethiopia)
Dried Fruit CurryFillets of Veal
Fish and Rice (Cape Kidgeree)
Fish and Shrimp Salad
Fish and Shrimp Stew
Fresh Cod with Coconut SauceGreen Bean Bredie
Green Bean Salad
Green Mango Atjar (Green Mangoes Preserved in Spiced Oil)
Green Mealie Bread (Cornbread)
Green Pea Soup with Mint
Grilled Marinated Meat with Apricots (Sosaties)
Honey Bread (Ethiopia)
Lamb and Potato Casserole
Mealie Soup (Corn Soup)
Moroccan Chicken Tagine with Honey and Apricots
Niter Kebbeh (Spiced Clarified Butter)
Peanut Soup
Pickled Fish
Plaintain and Beef Soup
Potato Soup with Bacon
Raisin Tart with Sour Cream Sauce
Rock Lobster Tail Salad
Rock Lobster Soup
Salt Cod and Peanut Curry
Salt Cod and Tomatoes
Shrimp and Coconut Sauce
Spice and Wine Cookies (Soetkoekies)