Here's an easy, fun recipe to enjoy with friends.
Ingredients:
250ml cake flour
75g butter/margarine
5ml baking powder
75ml castor sugar/brown sugar
5ml cinnamon
100ml chopped nuts
1x 410g can unsweetened pie apples
3 bananas sliced
Garnish:
Sliced fresh apples dipped in lemon juice
Fresh cream
Rub margarine or butter into flour.
Add baking powder and castor sugar.
Place apples and bananas into a glass dish and sprinkle with cinnamon and nuts.
Sprinkle crumble mixture over and microwave on High in a NATIONAL microwave oven for 8 - 10 minutes.
Serve hot with cream or custard.
Garnish with sliced apples.
Beef shin slowly stewed in a tasty red-wine sauce is the perfect meal for cold winter evenings. Sylvia Jays of Durbanville says she often uses brisket to make the dish, and oxtail if she's feeling particularly flush.
Serves 4-6400g small pickling onions
4 cloves garlic, crushed
1kg beef shins
salt and freshly ground black pepper
50ml cake flour
5ml paprika
5ml origanum
250ml hot beef stock
65g tomato paste
25ml soft brown sugar
2 bay leaves
1 cinnamon stick
5 whole cloves
180ml red wine
250ml sour cream
finely chopped parsley
Preheat the oven to 160deg C (325deg F).
Saute the onion and garlic in a little oil until glossy.
Transfer to an ovenproof dish and set aside.
Season the shins with salt and pepper.
Combine the flour, paprika, origanum and roll the shins in the mixture. Reserve the remaining flour mixture.
Score the fatty edges of the shins with a sharp knife to prevent them from curling during cooking.
Brown on both sides in the oil in the pan.
Reduce the heat and add the brown sugar and seasonings.
Add the red wine and simmer for a few minutes.
Turn into the ovenproof dish, cover and bake for one and a half hours or until the meat is tender. Pour the cause into a saucepan and add the sour cream. Simmer for a few minutes until the sauce thickens slightly or use the remaining cake flour mixture to thicken it.
Pour the sauce over the meat, sprinkle with parsley and serve with mashed potato, peas and carrots.
Serves 4-6
My Gran says this recipe is awesome. She makes it often and says it comes out perfect every time. If you've ever tasted her cooking, then I don't need to test the recipe to believe her:
Serves 4-6
60g (75ml) raw rice
500g beef mince
1 clove of garlic, crushed
1 egg, beaten
10ml dry sherry
10ml soya sauce
Seasoned flour for coating
oil for deep frying
Sweet-and-sour sauce:
440g can pineapple, chunks, drained, chopped, juice reserved
1 red pepper, seeded and diced
10ml soft brown sugar
30ml soya sauce
30ml white vinegar
15ml cornflour mixed into a paste with 30ml water
15ml finely chopped parsley
Cook rice in boiling salted water until cooked. Combine rice, mince, garlic, egg, sherry and soya sauce in a mixing bowl. Form 15ml amounts into balls, toss in seasoned flour to coat, shaking off excess. Deep fry in hot oil until well browned and cooked through.
Sauce:
Combine reserved pineapple juice with red pepper, sugar, soya sauce and vinegar in a pan. Stir in cornflour paste, stir over medium heat until sauce boils and thickens. Add pineapple and parsley, stir until heated through.
Add meatballs to sauce, simmer until heated through.
Serve with tossed green salad/assorted vegetables/as desired
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So my sister-in-law Michele, brings the most amazing cheesecake to a braai we hold at my house for my brothers 25th birthday!! This is a definite MUST-MAKE! It's amazing
Tennis biscuits - 2 packs
150g Margarine/butter to bind the biscuit base
1 Tin condensed milk (397g)
250g plain cream cheese
250g Masorpone cheese (optional for a bigger batch - but I suggest it)
250g fresh cream
2 fair sized lemons
Crush the biscuits.
Melt the margarine, add to crushed biscuits and press into a glass dish to make the base.
Mix the condensed milk and cream cheese and Masorpone well together.
In a separate bowl beat the fresh cream until thick - soft peak.
Fold in the cream to the cheese mixture.
Add squeezed lemon juice of both lemons.
Place mixture over the biscuits and chill for 3-4 hours before serving.
Decorate as desired.
Michele put some strawberry sauce mix into the mixture to make it more of a strawberry cheesecake. She decorated the top with fresh strawberries. Winner recipe for sure!!!!
