The Imperial African Cookery Book Recipes from English-speaking Africa by Will Sellick Featuring memories from Inkosi Dr Mangosuthu Buthelezi MP Adelaine Hain The Rt Hon Peter Hain MP Chenjerai Hove Lord Joffe CBE Dr Roger Leakey Prue Leith CBE Dame Monica Mason DBE HE Dr Festus Mogae Matthew Parris Rupert Pennant-Rea The Most Rev and Rt Hon John Sentamu Sylvester Stein “Tell me what you eat, and I will tell you what you are” Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Contents Introduction British people in Africa Indigenous cookery African food overseas Zimbabwe, Zambia and Malawi Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania West Africa Mozambique and Angola South Africa, Botswana, Namibia, Swaziland and Lesotho Ingredients Fruits and vegetables Herbs and spices Herbs and spices Meat, fish, game and poultry Dry goods Equipment Provisions Culture and etiquette Soups, snacks, starters and savouries Chilled lime and avocado soup Sorrel soup Peanut soup Ground nut soup Butternut and apple soup Caldo verde (green kale soup) Mulligatawny soup Orange and tomato soup Green mielie soup Sugar bean soup Kebobs Pasteis de bacalhau Indian toast Boiled ostrich egg Hot smoked salmon on toast Kedgeree Ostrich egg cheese omelette Scotch woodcock Scotch toast Chopped or gehackte herring Beef biltong Tassal Pickled fish Bulawayo savoury Main courses Aubergine casserole with cheese Fish frikkadels Zambezi fish bobotie Lobster Thermidor Hake and slap chips Bean curry Banana curry Mauritian fish stew Gesmoorde vis (Smothered fish) Fish breyani Mozambique prawns Zanzibar fish stew L.M. prawns Shrimp omelette Malay chicken curry Chicken in cashew sauce Pullau chicken Chicken casserole with cumin Peri-peri chicken Ashanti chicken Chicken pie Guinea fowl casserole Grilled guinea fowl with orange Braised pigeons with cherries Guinea fowl with cream Giraffe sausage Venison casserole Braised neck of venison with peaches Frikkadels Frikkadel curry Stewed oxtail Sosaties Bobotie Boerewors Beef and lemon casserole Stuffed pawpaw Denningvleis Pienang curry Skilpadjie Dutch roast beef Monkey gland steaks Mincemeat curry Goan pork vindalho Bunny chow Smoorvleis Durban meat curry Swart suur Snyboontjies (green bean) bredie Cabbage bredie Tomato bredie Waterblommetjie bredie