Recipes by Grant Loney

Piri-Piri Chicken by Grant Loney

Piri-Piri Chicken, Peri-Peri Chicken, Frango Piri-Piri, and Frango à Cafreal are all basically the same dish: chicken, marinated in a hot chile pepper marinade, then grilled. The dish's Portuguese and African origins are clearly seen in its names. Frango and cafreal (or cafrial) are Portuguese for chicken, and grilled; and piri-piri…

Chicken livers peri-peri by Grant Loney

In 1497 explorer Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope and sailed north to the Indian Ocean where his fleet made port in Mozambique. Thus began over 500 years of social, economic and culinary interaction between the people of Portugal and those of southern Africa. This shared history has resulted in the development of an…

Kumara Bake by Grant Loney

Kumara is one of the main food groups in the traditional Hangi and staple diet of Maori and was brought into New Zealand by Maori thousands of years ago, although it was much smaller than the cousin (Imported from the US) that is eaten today. Kumara is naturally sweet in flavour and is available in a variety of colours (red,…

CAPE MALAY PICKLED FISH by Grant Loney

Koeksisters by Grant Loney

Koeksisters are basically a South African syrup-coated twisted doughnut (sounds good already!) They originally come from the Cape Malay people in South Africa where their koeksister recipe has a texture a little like cake, is spicy and is often coated in dried coconut. The Afrikaners have a slightly different koeksuster recipe that is…

Malva Pudding by Grant Loney

Malva Pudding is a classic South African Food dish, that origionally comes from the Dutch, it is a sweet pudding, which is usually served hot with sauce, custard or ice-cream and you will often find it on the dessert menu in many South African restaurants. Malva Pudding is made with apricot jam and has a spongy caramelized texture.…

African Spinach ( Muriwo ) by Grant Loney

Virtually every township house in Zimbabwe has a small vegetable patch in the yard on which one of a variety of muriwo is grown. Virtually every township street corner has a vendor selling tomatoes and bundles of the vegetable. Even the poorest family in the worst grip of any hardship has this hardy kale to fall back on. A plate of…

Sadza by Grant Loney

The cornmeal-based dietary staple of Zimbabwe is also the national dish, called sadza. Sadza to the Zimbabweans is like rice to the Chinese, or pasta to Italians. In fact, sadza re masikati , or "sadza of the afternoon" simply means lunch. Sadza re manheru, or "sadza of the evening" means dinner. Sadza is made from cornmeal or maize,…

Dovi (Peanut Butter Stew) by Grant Loney