South African Valentine's Day

Let's celebrate Valentine's Day the South African way! It can be a romantic dinner for two, or love and food celebrated with your family - the South African way!

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Bobotie cups _ Food24

Melkkos with Cinnamon Sugar _ Now We Coo

Bobotie cups

Ingredients

• 1 slice white bread

• 250 ml milk

• 15 ml oil

• 1 onion, finely chopped

• 500 g beef mince

• 15 ml curry powder

• 20 ml sugar

• 30 ml vinegar

• 30 ml chutney

• 125 ml seedless raisins

• Custard

• 1 egg, beaten

• 60 ml cream

• salt and black pepper

• 30 g butter, melted

Method (30 min)

1. Preheat the oven to 180 °C and grease a 12-hollow muffin pan.

2. Soak bread in 125 ml (½ c) milk. Heat the oil in a saucepan and fry the onion until soft. Add the mince and fry until well browned.

3. Stir in the curry powder. Squeeze the milk out of the bread and crumble the soggy bread into the mince.

4. Add the sugar, vinegar, chutney, raisins and 125 ml (½ c) water to the mince. Stir and allow it to simmer for 10 minutes or until the mince is cooked and the mixture is almost dry, but still moist.

Custard:

1. Whisk the egg, cream, remaining milk, salt, pepper and butter together until well combined. Spoon the mince filling into the muffin holes and cover with the custard. Allow to stand for 5 minutes and bake for 15 minutes or until the custard has set.

Main Course

Grilled Chicken Kota

Recipe for Grilled Chicken Kota with chips, bacon and cheese!

Ingredients

• Quarter loaf SASKO Premium White bread

• 120g chicken breasts

• 1 tbsp chicken spice

• 120g frozen chips

• 130ml BBQ marinade

• 4 slices streaky bacon

• ½ onion sliced

• 2 slices cheese

• 15ml Achaar

• Salt for seasoning

• Oil for frying

Method

1. Cut the bread into a quarter loaf and remove a section of the inside.

2. Cut the chicken breasts into bite size pieces

3. Season the chicken breasts with chicken spice and place on a hot grill until cooked. Place the cooked chicken into the marinade

4. Pan fry the streaky bacon and onions until golden brown

5. Deep fry the chips until golden, season with salt

6. Place the chips and chicken, cheese, bacon and onions into the quarter loaf and drizzle with extra BBQ sauce and achaar.

Dessert

Melkkos With Cinnamon Sugar

Melkkos is definitely a proudly South African heritage recipe. The combination of childhood nostalgia and creamy comfort food is reason enough to try your hand at making this traditional pudding that you won’t find on the shelves at any supermarket.

Melkkos is especially delicious when served up as a warm winter dessert. So make your granny proud and master the art of this meal with our easy recipe that you and your family will soon learn to love and enjoy.

Ingredients

• 50g Sugar

• 5ml Ground Cinnamon

• 90g Cake Flour

• 2ml Salt

• 80ml Sunshine D’Lite 40% Fat Spread

• 50g Sugar

• 1.5L Milk

• 1 Cinnamon Stick

• 2ml Ground Nutmeg

• 5ml Sea Salt Flakes

Method

Cinnamon Sugar:

1. Mix the sugar and ground cinnamon together.

Melkkos:

1. Rub together the flour, salt and fat spread in between your fingertips until it is crumbly.

2. Add the sugar and mix through. Heat the milk, cinnamon stick and ground nutmeg in a large pan.

3. Bring to boil, then simmer, gradually adding spoonfuls of the crumble mixture, whisking continuously.

4. Cook, while still whisking, for 8 – 10 minutes.

5. Turn off the heat, remove and discard the cinnamon stick and allow to rest for 5 minutes before serving.

6. Serve a spoonful of melkkos in a bowl, topped with a sprinkling of cinnamon sugar. Top with another spoonful, ending with a layer of cinnamon sugar.