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Bibimbap

One of the many reasons I love Asian food is how ingredients are treated with utmost respect. Most of the flavour comes from the ingredients themselves and they haven’t been “messed” with too much. It’s almost like the least cooking of the raw ingredients the better! This makes for absolutely easy cooking. There might be […]

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Shrimp Akhni

This dish is loosely based on my Nanima’s Prawn Akhni. You could easily use prawn meat instead but I used shrimp just because of #Januworry. You can buy a packet of Shrimp meat for R34,99 as opposed to 500g of Prawns for R99. As a midweek meal and nothing special, I wanted that Prawn taste

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Khuri Kitchrie

This is hands down one of my favorite meals to eat, as a child growing up as well as an adult! The great thing about Khuri Kitchrie are really all the side dishes that go along with it. I tend to make the standard pumpkin curry and fish chutney accompaniments but spinach and masala aloo

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Chicken Akhni

Akhni is a rice dish made from essentially an Aloo Ghost (Chicken & Potato curry) mixed with cooked rice. Akhni varies from province to province. I’m sure each family will have a different recipe depending on their heritage. For example the Cape Malay version is different to the one I grew up with as my

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Sweet & Sour Chicken

This one was of those “make up as I go along” recipes. I knew what I wanted to eat and had an idea of the flavour combo so I bought a pineapple and threw some things together and came up with this. Sweet & Sour Chicken Ingredients: ¼ onion, cubed 2 chicken breasts, cubed 1tsp

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