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Beetroot recipes

Beetroot curry

30 minutes

Chicken recipes

Haleem

2 hours

Asian recipes

Asian-style pork belly

1 hour 15 minutes

Chicken recipes

Simple roast chicken with sunshiny apricot sauce

1 hour

Dip recipes

Green chutney

Boards and

Chaat board with bhel puri

10 minutes

Diwali recipes

Aloo tikki firecrackers

15–20 minutes

Braai recipes

24-hour marinated lamb on the braai

1 hour 30 minutes

Citrus recipes

Roast lamb with ClemenGold romesco

2 hours, plus 10 minutes resting time

Cabbage recipes

Sticky tofu-and-black rice bowl with quick-pickled cabbage

10 minutes

Brinjal recipes

Brinjal curry with chickpea dumplings

30 minutes

Curry recipes

Egg curry

15 minutes

Egg curry

Serves 4 to 6

Difficulty Easy

Prep Time 15 minutes

Cooking Time 15 minutes

Ingredients

oil, for sautéing
3 large onions, cut into rings
½ green pepper, cut into strips
2 star anise pods
2 cardamom pods
2 bay leaves
2 cinnamon sticks
1 t cumin seeds
1 T tandoori masala spice
1 T roasted masala
1 T mother-in-law spice mix
3 large tomatoes, peeled and grated
4 cloves garlic, chopped
sugar, to taste
salt, to taste
fresh coriander, a handful, chopped
10 free-range eggs, hard-boiled
white rice, for serving

Method

1 Heat the oil in a pan and sauté the onions, green pepper and whole spices until fragrant.

2 Add all the dry spices and a splash of water and cook for about 3 minutes.

3 Add the tomatoes and garlic and cook until the mixture forms a thick sauce. Add more water if necessary. Add sugar and salt to taste and stir through. Add the coriander.

4 Place the whole boiled eggs in the sauce and allow to warm through.

5 Time to eat, family! Serve with fluffy white rice.

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Extracted from Tietie en Nanna se Huiskos by Najma Abrahams and Azba Fanie (Human & Rousseau). Note: book is printed in Afrikaans.

Photographs: Donna Lewis

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Beetroot curry

Haleem

Asian-style pork belly

Simple roast chicken with sunshiny apricot sauce

Green chutney

Chaat board with bhel puri

Aloo tikki firecrackers

24-hour marinated lamb on the braai

Roast lamb with ClemenGold romesco

Sticky tofu-and-black rice bowl with quick-pickled cabbage

Brinjal curry with chickpea dumplings

Egg curry

Egg curry

Ingredients

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