Biltong

A few days ago I bought myself a food dehydration machine. As soon as it arrived I wanted to smack myself, why no one else had come up with the idea before is beyond me. All it is is a see through …

A few days ago I bought myself a food dehydration machine. As soon as it arrived I wanted to smack myself, why no one else had come up with the idea before is beyond me. All it is is a see through …

A few days ago I bought myself a food dehydration machine. As soon as it arrived I wanted to smack myself, why no one else had come up with the idea before is beyond me. All it is is a see through …

THANKS TO MIKE FISHPEN FOR PROVIDING THIS RECIPE! Mike Fishpen is a professional Chef and runs a 'Personal Chef Services' that provides fantastic, fresh, top restaurant quality food in the privacy of people’s homes and board rooms. Here is Mike’s amazing family Biltong recipe that he shared with us. For more informatio

As a patriotic South African I must say that biltong is NOT beef jerky. Having never been to America I will trust the internet on this one 🙂 Biltong is dried, whereas beef jerky seems to be dehydrated (sometimes in an oven, i think). Apparently the spices used for jerky are also different, as...Read More

An easy recipe and directions for making delicious South African Biltong at home. The high quality organic biltong in this article was made at home and took about 15 minutes of preparation time an…

[2014 amendment – another biltong recipe (cognac-flavoured biltong) can be found here]South Africa is enjoying the afterglow of the Soccer World Cup and if you were brave enough to visit our …

stephan gates terrific version of biltong, essentially air dried beef. The cook time is zero but none of the times include up to 20 days hanging

THANKS TO MIKE FISHPEN FOR PROVIDING THIS RECIPE! Mike Fishpen is a professional Chef and runs a 'Personal Chef Services' that provides fantastic, fresh, top restaurant quality food in the privacy of people’s homes and board rooms. Here is Mike’s amazing family Biltong recipe that he shared with us. For more informatio

This quick recipe remains a favourite – be sure to make enough!

It consists of a perfectly baked puff pastry cup filled with an egg, cheese and biltong filling with fresh thyme and basil.

Adding a popular snack to another popular dish, this recipe adds biltong to a potjie with pasta shells and Rhodes Whole Kernel Corn.

Perfect for an appetizer or a main meal

This Biltong and Butternut Quiche reminded me once again how incredibly rich our South African food culture is, but it is a heritage that is made up of recipes borrowed from all over the world. A good example is the history of the Cape Malay cuisine in South Africa. It began with the involuntary migration […]

Every seventeenth-century cook at the Cape had a favourite recipe for boerewors (farmer’s sausage). During the twentieth century, many cooks began following recipes that predominantly used coriander and cloves seasoning. A possible reason for this preference might have been the Afrikaans cookbooks by Dijkman and D.J.H., which contain recipes with these spices as ingredients. It is a popular myth that boerewors was always made from a mixture of pork and other meats. Before the twentieth…

This is the best sausage I have ever had. It will make any South African Homesick instantly. It is very filling. I got it when I lived in South Africa for a couple of years.