Main Meals Archives

Beef recipes

Caramelised oxtail pot pie

3 hours 20 minutes

Chicken recipes

Roast chicken and mushroom pie

40 minutes

Fakeaway recipes

Fish n chips with home-made tartar sauce

20 minutes

Sundried tomato and pork mince pasta

Butternut recipes

Butternut chicken with Horseradish creme fraiche

30 minutes

Corn recipes

Steamed salmon with Thai corn puree

5 to 10 minutes

Slow roast

Lamb shanks in patterned phyllo blankets

2 hours 15 minutes

Sausage recipes

Pork or lamb bangers and mash

30 minutes

Soup recipes

Lentil and bean soup

15 to 20 minutes

Sticky rice with sweet soya pork

Seafood recipes

Swakopmund seafood soup

15-20 minutes.

Swakopmund seafood soup

Difficulty Easy

Cooking Time 15-20 minutes.

Ingredients

1 onion, quartered
1 red, yellow and green pepper, cut into chunks
4 T olive oil
1 litre fish stock
1 cup dry red wine
3 stalks celery
3 bay leaves
6 cloves garlic, crushed
1 t paprika
2 x 410 g cans chopped tomatoes
50 g tomato purée
Juice and zest of 1 lemon
1 t sugar
½ t ground cumin
Sea salt, freshly ground black pepper and peri-peri, to taste
2 red chillis, seeded and chopped (optional)
2 kg seafood (boneless white fish, clams, prawns, calamari, crayfish, crab, etc.)
2 T cake flour
fresh parsley or coriander, chopped, to garnish
pinch of saffron

Method

Fry the onion and peppers in the olive oil until soft.

Add all the remaining ingredients except the seafood, cake flour, parsley or coriander and saffron. Simmer for 15 to 20 minutes.

Add the seafood and simmer until tender.

Mix the flour and saffron with 2 T water, then stir into the soup. Check seasoning and simmer until thick.

Garnish with chopped parsley or coriander and serve immediately.

Note: This recipe is from Antoinette de Chavonnes Vrugt’s My Hungry Heart: Notes from a Namibian Kitchen, and appeared in the June issue of TASTE

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Swakopmund seafood soup

Swakopmund seafood soup

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