Mama Lindi from Soweto cooking Steam bread and Chakalaka

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb48q1RtyuU&t=1s

 

Dumpling recipe:

Use an enamel basin which will fit into your pot

2 cups of either bread or cake flour - it's up to you

1 x packet 10g instant yeast

 

Mix all ingredients with a pinch of salt

warm water don't make it too watery

add 2 spoons of  oil to your basin so that it does not stick.

Cover your dough in the basin with a vatdoek (cloth) - a thick one. Let it stand in the sun for 2 hrs until it has risen fully. This depends on how hot the sun is.

Once ready, boil about 2 liters of water, because the dough must be steam cooked for an hour.

Put the enamel basin, which contains the dough into the pot on top of the steam

 

Chakalaka recipe:

Carrots 500 g

Green beans 250g

Garlic 1clove

Ginger 1 clove

2 large onion

Spices

mild rajah 7 g

Mild and spice 7 g

1 tin baked beans 410g

Green chillies

 

Par boil carrots and green beans

Fry onion in enough oil add both your rajahs stirring all the time with the chopped garlic and ginger

dice your par boiled carrots and green beans add to the pot and stir.

That is what makes the sauce.

Please add green chillies one or 3 at a time because that is  very hot and strong.

As time goes on you  will add spices to your liking. Enjoy!