Jan Braai for vegetarians

chakalaka

Chakalaka is pretty straightforward to make and very tasty. There are thousands, if not millions of recipes for it in South Africa. When calling for submissions for my crowd-sourced book Shisanyama, I received many options, so when developing this recipe, I looked for the common threads of golden truth running through all the different versions. This, then, is a triple-distilled version – a ‘best of the best’, if you will.

cape-style braaibroodjie

One Saturday afternoon, ahead of an evening braai, Natasha – who sent me this recipe – designed this take on a . According to her, the inspiration was the Cape Town habit of serving preserved green figs with everything. Truth be told, I’m from Cape Town, I love