We know that our readers love South African recipes more than any others. I think it’s partly to do with nostalgia (remembering your granny by cooking her milk tart recipe), partly comfort but mostly because South African recipes tend to be rather delicious.
Here are 20 of the most popular South African recipes on our blog.
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1. Traditional bobotie

Traditional bobotie with yellow rice. Image credit: Charmaine Zoe
2. Butternut soup

Butternut soup. Image credit: Veronique/ Flickr
3. Slow-cooked Karoo lamb shanks
4. Chicken soup with braaied mielies
5. Chakalaka soup with boerewors balls

6. Oxtail potjie
7. The best boerewors rolls
8. Braai broodjies

9. Braaied garlic and peri-peri chicken

10. Rump steak with garlic butter

11. Chicken pie

12. Peppermint crisp tart

13. Traditional malva pudding

14. Banana bread

15. Better-than-Ouma’s rusks

16. Apple pie

17. Amarula malva pudding recipe

18. Spiced guava ice cream

19. Braaied banana and pineapple

20. The best vetkoek recipe ever
