Recipes from Southern Africa: Cape Malay Fish Curry

Cape Town's Cape Malay cuisine is uniquely South African. The destinctive flavour of the dishes is a careful blend of aromatic spices, such as cardamom, coriander, cumin, cinnamon, turmeric, ginger, garlic, tamarind and chillies. The strong flavours of the Cape Malay cuisine are a mix of mainly Asian elements, but there are also plenty of African and European nuances too. Enjoy a Cape Malay Fish Curry! Kudos LekkerFoodCookBook!



Ingredients:

• 600 g rockling, hake or other firm white fish fillets, skin removed
• salt, to season, plus 1 tsp, approximately, extra
• pepper, to season
• 60 ml cooking oil
• 1 tsp of fennel seeds
• 1 tsp of cumin seeds
• 1 onion, finely chopped
• 1 tsp crushed garlic
• 1 fresh red birdseye chilli, halved lengthways
• 1 tsp ground coriander
• 1 tsp ground cumin
• 1 tsp ground fennel
• ½ tsp garam masala
• ½ tsp ground turmeric
• 1 tbsp hot masala, or to taste
• 1 tsp medium masala
• 3 tomatoes, peeled, grated
• 1 tsp tamarind pulp, mixed with 60 ml boiling water and strained
• 1 tbsp brown sugar, or to taste
• 10 fresh curry leaves, bruised
• ½ cup chopped coriander leaves
• yellow rice, to serve

Recipes from Southern Africa: Spicy pineapples (Durban)

Durban's Golden Mile is famous for the Indian Ocean, the beaches, the surf spots, uShaka Marine World, the promenade with its top-class accommodation, fleamarkets, restaurants as well as for one of Durban's most unique snacks: spicy pineapples. Usually sold by street vendors all over the beachfront, spicy pineapples are tangy fresh pineapple chunks doused in curry powder. Delicious!

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Ingredients:

• one fresh pineapple
• curry powder
• salt

Method:

• Mix two parts of curry powder with one part of salt
• Cut the pineapple into bite-size chunks 
• Douse the pineapple chunks with the curry mix 
• Enjoy the sweet and hot pineapple chunks!

Video: The Durban Curry

On his hunt for the world's best curries, the Urban Rajah recently visited Durban to find out more about the curries of South Africa. At the famous Oyster Box Hotel, he spoke with executive chef Kevin Joseph about the three main curry dishes in South Africa, the three key ingredients in South African curries, asked him what a bunny chow acutally is. Enjoy and get hungry! Kudos Urban Rajah!