Mutton curry like Amma’s Durban Chicken Curry was characterized by its red colour and fiery taste. As kids we grew accustomed to the pungent taste by eating a little gravy mixed with potato,rice and small pieces of meat. Like most prime meats, Mutton Curry was reserved for Sunday lunch! If …
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Carrot Salad Recipe
Like Amma Used To Make It The Sweet Taste of Carrots are the Perfect Accompaniment to Curry Amma loved her carrot salad with extra green chilies and no Sunday lunch was complete without carrot salad. Though carrots were often the predominant ingredient in this medley of vegetables – carrots were …
Cucumber Raita Recipe
Raita is a mild condiment made with curds (yogurt, sour milk) and vegetables like cucumber and or spring onion, mint and coriander-lightly spiced with cumin seeds or jeera powder and chillies. The first time Amma made Raita was after visiting her niece in Durban-who often made Raita with sour milk, …
Fried Brinjal Recipe
Amma’s Fried Brinjal recipe was much like her batter for frying fish. It contained flour and spices. The Brinjal (Aubergines) were sliced into thin discs then coated in batter before being deep fried. Amma mostly made Fried Brinjal as a topping for her Veg Pizza. How To Make Fried Brinjal …
Mutton Soup Recipe
Theres nothing quite like the smell of Mutton Soup, especially on cold days or when you’re feeling under the weather. Amma made soup fairly often. Special ingredients for this dish included ‘soup bones’- these were pieces of bone with a few ounces of meat still left on them.Old habbits die …
White Potato Curry
There were essentially four varieties of Potato Curry cooked by Amma, the normal Potato Curry cooked with onion and curry powder, there was then a varient of this dish with peas added to it -called Peas and Potato or Potato and Peas Curry, or Yellow Potato Curry cooked with turmeric …
How To Cook Chutney
Like Amma Used to Make It Tomato Chutney is delicious whether served on its own or as Egg Chutney. This basic sauce like tomato curry often served as the base of Amma’s fiery Durban Curries. Chutney is also best served with phutu or porridge and can also serve as a …
Brinjal Curry
Like Amma Used To Make It Brinjal curry is very special to me, not only was it the first curry I ever cooked, but it is also my favorite vegetable curry second only to Green Beans. I especially loved Amma’s Brinjal Curry, her special recipe which contained boiled eggs. I …
Buttered Bread and Tea
Three o’ clock was time tea!If you are a South African of Indentured Indian descent then you will have had this form of ‘high tea’ at some point or the other. Though plainly buttered bread and black tea may sound like something out of prison menu it is surprisingly quite …