Spice of life
Burnt is a flavour – although there are limits to how far you can push a tray of coriander seeds before that saying goes up in smoke…
I learnt this the hard way last winter when my mom and I made our own selection of gourmet boerewors. Traditional. Bobotie-style. One with thyme and smoked salt, and one with extra pork fat and fennel.
It was going to be the best boerewors we had ever tasted… but we forgot our tray of precious, handharvested coriander seeds in the oven and blackened the bulk of it.
Boerewors can be flavoured with a whole spectrum of spices but it must never be without the iconic crunch of toasted coriander seeds. It’s what makes boerewors Boerewors. So, we had to make do. ‘Burnt is a flavour,’ I recall my mother saying
