South Africa: Delicious baked goods.
People who thrive in South Africa have formed unique dietary characteristics due to climate, culture and other factors. In Africa, there are many local spices, vegetables and fruits, and there are many varieties, so the method of cooking a variety of foods together has been formed since ancient times. Most meat products are baked and mixed with curry, milkshake and tomato juice. Generally speaking, South Africans like to cook captured prey meat, such as elk meat, deer steak, pot-cooked venison, rabbit meat and steamed ostrich meat. Cut mutton or pork into cubes, put apricots into the meat, then put the meat on a wooden stick and bake it slowly outdoors. After the meat is cooked, it tastes very unique with corn porridge. Barbecue has always been loved by South Africans. The material is mainly pork and beef sausage, and various spices including cardamom, fennel, clove and garlic are added. It is slowly roasted on the barbecue grill with lamb chops and steaks, accompanied by thick corn porridge and special onion sauce, which is delicious.
The diet structure of South African cuisine is relatively simple, and less attention is paid to ingredients, so as to keep the raw materials as original as possible. Ostrich meat, ostrich eggs and wild pork are the most common game in South African cuisine. The main methods of ostrich meat are stewing, frying and frying. Fried and barbecued. The most common choice is South Africa's homemade marinated stew, which is moderately salty and sweet. Ostrich eggs are two or three times larger than human fists, and the eggshell is about five millimeters thick, which is suitable for pickling. There are eight kinds of ingredients such as onion, mushroom and ham to choose from. Guests can choose ingredients according to their personal preferences and roll them up with fried ostrich egg skins to eat. Wild boar eats onions? Most meat is tender and slippery. In addition, crocodile meat, grilled lobster and fried shrimp are also quite distinctive.
dining etiquette
In many parts of Africa, people eat with their hands instead of knives and forks, let alone chopsticks. When eating, everyone sits around with a lunch box and a vegetable box in the middle. Everyone grabs the edge of the lunch box or vegetable box with his left hand and the rice and vegetables in front of him with his right finger. Guests should pay attention not to spill food on the ground when eating, which is a big taboo for the host.