I love this recipe!
Having little access to regular store bought bread makes a quick replacemement and essential! These wraps are more delicious than the store bought one that cost a fortune...not only that they only take a few minutes to make.
Ingredients:
4 Cups flour
Pinch of salt
125g butter/marg
1 - 1 1/2 cus of warm water
Method:
Mix dry ingredients, add butter nad mix, slowly add water and mix until you get an elastic dough. Empty out onto a floured surface. Break into 24 equal sized balls and roll the first one out into a circle about the size of your frying pan. Dry fry the rolled out pastry. Flip when it bubbles on the top size. They take about 60 seconds to cook each!
This recipe is great halfed or doubled so you can feed a few or multitudes of guests!
Enjoy!
Sunday, December 22, 2013
Saturday, October 12, 2013
Simple No Yogurt Naan Bread
Living on a boat means that bread is a luxury. We like bread and when we make curry we need some form of "Bread" to make the meal. Living board also means that yogurt is not something we have around on a daily basis so here's how we do it!
Ingredients:
1 Cup of Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
Pinch of salt
1 tsp Sugar
1 Tbsp Oil
Milk
Method:
Mix dry ingredients in a bowl. add the oil and mix, slowly add milk until you get a pliable dough.
Mix with your floured hands until the dough is soft and stiff. Flour a surface. Break the dough into four balls of about equal size. Roll it out into a tear drop shape, prick with a fork and grill until golden brown.
Voila...Naan bread in a few minutes.
Ingredients:
1 Cup of Flour
1 tsp Baking Powder
Pinch of salt
1 tsp Sugar
1 Tbsp Oil
Milk
Method:
Mix dry ingredients in a bowl. add the oil and mix, slowly add milk until you get a pliable dough.
Mix with your floured hands until the dough is soft and stiff. Flour a surface. Break the dough into four balls of about equal size. Roll it out into a tear drop shape, prick with a fork and grill until golden brown.
Voila...Naan bread in a few minutes.
Monday, September 16, 2013
Vetkoek and Mince
This is a fantastic, easy recipe to homemade vetkoek. We make a meal out of vetkoek, with mince for the main and jam for pudding!
Ingredients:
4 Cups Flour
2 tsp Sugar
Pinch of salt
1 packet yeast
65ml oil
warm water
Oil for deep frying
Method:
Add dry ingredients to a mixing bowl, add oil and mix, slowly add warm water and mix until you get a firm dough. Flour the counter and your hands and knead the dough on the counter top for 10 minutes. The dough is ready when it "springs" back. Place in the bowl, cover with a dishtowel and leave to rise for 20 minutes.
I usually make the mince while the dough rises...see the mince recipe here
Knock the dough down and roll it out to about an inch thich. Cut with a sharp knife into approx 36 pieces. Heat oil in a deep pot, add the pieces 3 or 4 at a time depending on pot size. The oil should be hot enough that the dough rises to the surface when you place the pieces in the pot. Cook until browned then flip over and cook until browned.
Remove from pot and place in a bowl lined with paper towels.
Once slightly cooled cut and fill with desired filling, mince or butter and jam etc.
Ingredients:
4 Cups Flour
2 tsp Sugar
Pinch of salt
1 packet yeast
65ml oil
warm water
Oil for deep frying
Method:
Add dry ingredients to a mixing bowl, add oil and mix, slowly add warm water and mix until you get a firm dough. Flour the counter and your hands and knead the dough on the counter top for 10 minutes. The dough is ready when it "springs" back. Place in the bowl, cover with a dishtowel and leave to rise for 20 minutes.
I usually make the mince while the dough rises...see the mince recipe here
Knock the dough down and roll it out to about an inch thich. Cut with a sharp knife into approx 36 pieces. Heat oil in a deep pot, add the pieces 3 or 4 at a time depending on pot size. The oil should be hot enough that the dough rises to the surface when you place the pieces in the pot. Cook until browned then flip over and cook until browned.
Remove from pot and place in a bowl lined with paper towels.
Once slightly cooled cut and fill with desired filling, mince or butter and jam etc.
Thursday, September 12, 2013
Miellie meal porridge
A different version of pap for breakfast is commonly known as slap pap in South Africa. This differs from braai pap in that it is smooth, creamy and has no lumps.
Ingredients:
2 Cups water
pinch of salt
1 Cup maize meal
Method:
Bring the water and salt to the boil. Place the maize meal ina measuring jug and add cold water in small quanties until you get a paste. Once the water is boiling, add the paste and stir continuously until boiling. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes stirring occassionally.
Serving is as per personal taste. In our house we have variations as follows:
Serve with Sugar and milk
Serve with Syrup and milk
Serve with honey snd milk
Serve with Sugat and butter
Serve with Syrup and butter
Serve with honey and butter
Any of the above serving is delicious!
Ingredients:
2 Cups water
pinch of salt
1 Cup maize meal
Method:
Bring the water and salt to the boil. Place the maize meal ina measuring jug and add cold water in small quanties until you get a paste. Once the water is boiling, add the paste and stir continuously until boiling. Reduce heat and simmer for 10 minutes stirring occassionally.
Serving is as per personal taste. In our house we have variations as follows:
Serve with Sugar and milk
Serve with Syrup and milk
Serve with honey snd milk
Serve with Sugat and butter
Serve with Syrup and butter
Serve with honey and butter
Any of the above serving is delicious!
Braai Pap
I have given 2 recipes for Braai Sous/tomato and onion sauce but neglected to give a recipe for pap. I have had requests for the method of making various types of pap so here you go, the first in this series of braai pap.
Ingredients:
3 cups water
pinch of salt
2 cups maize meal
Method:
Bring the water and salt to a boil. Once the water is boiling rapidly add the maize meal in dry powder form slowly stirring continuously. Take note that you will get lumps, but this supposed to happen. Stir continuously until the mixture boils again. Then lower heat to the lowest setting on the stove and and cover. Leave for 15 - 20 minutes. The bottom of the pot tends to burn, but this normal.
Serve with braai sous or with sugar and milk as a breakfast.
Ingredients:
3 cups water
pinch of salt
2 cups maize meal
Method:
Bring the water and salt to a boil. Once the water is boiling rapidly add the maize meal in dry powder form slowly stirring continuously. Take note that you will get lumps, but this supposed to happen. Stir continuously until the mixture boils again. Then lower heat to the lowest setting on the stove and and cover. Leave for 15 - 20 minutes. The bottom of the pot tends to burn, but this normal.
Serve with braai sous or with sugar and milk as a breakfast.
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Tomato and Onion Sauce
This is a simple Braai sous recipe I can slap together in under 5 minutes. If you have made pap and need sous with a bit if a bite this one is for you!
Ingredients:
1 can Tomato and onion mix
2 tbsp worchershire sauce
Dash of tobasco sauce
Dash of peri-peri spice
Method:
Add all the ingredients into a pot and heat to boiling. Remove and serve!
Wow what recipe could be simpler than this?
Ingredients:
1 can Tomato and onion mix
2 tbsp worchershire sauce
Dash of tobasco sauce
Dash of peri-peri spice
Method:
Add all the ingredients into a pot and heat to boiling. Remove and serve!
Wow what recipe could be simpler than this?
Saturday, August 24, 2013
Eggless Chocolate Cake
I ran out of eggs and living on a boat means that shops are not ariuond the corner and available at any time. We were expecting guests and I wanted to make a cake so here's how I did it.
Ingredients:
280g self raising flour
3 level tablespoons of Cocoa
175g Castor sugar
Pinch of salt
1 tsp Bicabonate of soda
350ml Milk
150ml Vegetable oil
3 Tbsp Golden Syrup
1/2 tsp Vanilla essence
Method:
Place all the dry ingredients into a bowl, disolve the bicarb in a Tbsp of milk and add. Then add all the other ingredients. Hand beat, I use a fork, until smooth.
Grease a pan or two if you want a snadwich cake and bake at 180 for 30 minutes or until a knife comes out clean.
Ice with chocolate butter icing.
Simple, moist, delicious cake that was even better on day 2! I love that a cake you can bake the day before and know it will still taste fresh after 24 hours.
Ingredients:
280g self raising flour
3 level tablespoons of Cocoa
175g Castor sugar
Pinch of salt
1 tsp Bicabonate of soda
350ml Milk
150ml Vegetable oil
3 Tbsp Golden Syrup
1/2 tsp Vanilla essence
Method:
Place all the dry ingredients into a bowl, disolve the bicarb in a Tbsp of milk and add. Then add all the other ingredients. Hand beat, I use a fork, until smooth.
Grease a pan or two if you want a snadwich cake and bake at 180 for 30 minutes or until a knife comes out clean.
Ice with chocolate butter icing.
Simple, moist, delicious cake that was even better on day 2! I love that a cake you can bake the day before and know it will still taste fresh after 24 hours.
Tuesday, April 9, 2013
Meringues
I have always been told there is an art to making these. You need to get the inside soft and chewy and the outside hard and crunchy.
I took a few recipes and modified them....for a first try and it worked perfectly!
Here's how I did it:
Ingredients:
4 Egg whites
115g Castor Sugar
115g Icing sugar
1 Tbsp Vinegar
Method:
Place a sheet of wax paper of a baking sheet. Preheat oven to 160 degree celsius.
Whisk egg whites and vinegar together until stiff. Add caster sugur 1 Tbsp at a time stirring after each addition. Add Icing sugar about 1/3 at a time folding in and stirring until no powder remains.
Spoon out mixture onto wax paper and bake for about 1 hour...make sure your tray is in the top section of the oven or it burns the undersides. Once the merigues are solid to the light tap. Switch off oven and leave to cool inside the oven for a further hour.
Remove and enjoy!
I took a few recipes and modified them....for a first try and it worked perfectly!
Here's how I did it:
Ingredients:
4 Egg whites
115g Castor Sugar
115g Icing sugar
1 Tbsp Vinegar
Method:
Place a sheet of wax paper of a baking sheet. Preheat oven to 160 degree celsius.
Whisk egg whites and vinegar together until stiff. Add caster sugur 1 Tbsp at a time stirring after each addition. Add Icing sugar about 1/3 at a time folding in and stirring until no powder remains.
Spoon out mixture onto wax paper and bake for about 1 hour...make sure your tray is in the top section of the oven or it burns the undersides. Once the merigues are solid to the light tap. Switch off oven and leave to cool inside the oven for a further hour.
Remove and enjoy!
Chocolate Cake
I'm a vanilla cake personally, but since Barry and Rauen have been craving a chocolate fix here's my chocolate cake recipe. It makes a Duble or triple layer cake!
Ingredients:
2 Cups flour
3/4 Cup Cocoa
1 1/2 tsp Baking powder
Pinch of salt
1 Cup milk
1 tsp Vanilla essence
2 Cups of sugar
1/2 Cup of oil
1 Cup of Boiling water
2 Eggs
Method:
Grease cake pans. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Place dry ingredients in a bowl. Add eggs, vanilla essence and oil then mix. Add milk then mix again and finally add boiling water and stir until you get a smooth consistency.
Pour mixture into cake tins, don't fill the tins more than 1/2 way or they with spill over.
Bake for 30 minutes or until a knife comes out smoothly.
Ice with butter icing:
2 Tbsp Butter
1 tsp Vanilla essence
2 Tbsp Cocoa
1 1/2 Cups of icing sugar
Mix ingredients together until you get a smooth icing.
Ice cake and serve.
Ingredients:
2 Cups flour
3/4 Cup Cocoa
1 1/2 tsp Baking powder
Pinch of salt
1 Cup milk
1 tsp Vanilla essence
2 Cups of sugar
1/2 Cup of oil
1 Cup of Boiling water
2 Eggs
Method:
Grease cake pans. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C. Place dry ingredients in a bowl. Add eggs, vanilla essence and oil then mix. Add milk then mix again and finally add boiling water and stir until you get a smooth consistency.
Pour mixture into cake tins, don't fill the tins more than 1/2 way or they with spill over.
Bake for 30 minutes or until a knife comes out smoothly.
Ice with butter icing:
2 Tbsp Butter
1 tsp Vanilla essence
2 Tbsp Cocoa
1 1/2 Cups of icing sugar
Mix ingredients together until you get a smooth icing.
Ice cake and serve.
Thursday, January 10, 2013
Pancakes
I love this...we make a meal of it and have savoury pancakes followed by sweet!
Ingredients:
4 Cups of flour
3 level tsp of baking powder
1 tsp salt
2/3 cup of oil
1 tbsp vinegar
4 eggs
1 litre of water
Method:
Place all ingredients in a bowl and mix until there are no lumps.
Place a non-stick pan on the stove and spoon mixture into pan. When bubbles appear on the top flip.
If you want to add cinnamon and sugar the trick to delicious juicy pancakes is to layer the pancakes and cinnamon sugar while making them and roll them off at the end, that way the sugar melts...mmm delicious!
Ingredients:
4 Cups of flour
3 level tsp of baking powder
1 tsp salt
2/3 cup of oil
1 tbsp vinegar
4 eggs
1 litre of water
Method:
Place all ingredients in a bowl and mix until there are no lumps.
Place a non-stick pan on the stove and spoon mixture into pan. When bubbles appear on the top flip.
If you want to add cinnamon and sugar the trick to delicious juicy pancakes is to layer the pancakes and cinnamon sugar while making them and roll them off at the end, that way the sugar melts...mmm delicious!
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