Slow Travel and Food and Travel Blog for Trips to Savor
I first encountered the one-pot recipe Potjiekos from South Africa on my early travels through Africa. Potjiekos are simple stew dishes. This food goes back to the Voortrekkers, who traveled through the country with their heavy ox carts.
This Chakalaka recipe in its current form probably originated in the kitchens of the townships and mining settlements in and around Johannesburg in South Africa. The dish is still quite new. It is said that it originated in the hostels where the men in the townships lived.
Here you can buy African spices that you need for specialties from all over the world. We brought recipes for it with us from our travels through Africa.
Our African stew from Nigeria shows how good you can eat African food. I ate this for the first time many years ago in an African restaurant in Cape Town in South Africa. In Marco's African Place. Not far from the waterfront.
Chickpea recipes have a long tradition in Oriental cuisine. In the Maghreb countries in North Africa there are many recipes in which chickpeas play a role as an ingredient. Our chickpea salad therefore comes from African cuisine. This is how it is prepared in Tunisia.
We present you a Bobotie recipe from South Africa from the kitchen of the Boschendal winery. There is probably no dish from South Africa that better represents the cuisine of the Cape Malays in Cape Town. Spiced with curry you can taste the influences of Malay cuisine.
