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Template:Culture of South Africa Template:Cuisine The Cuisine of South Africa varies widely,

Restaurants and fast food outlets

South Africa can be said to have a real "eating out" culture. While there are some restaurants that specialize in traditional South African dishes or modern interpretations thereof, restaurants featuring other cuisines such as Moroccan, Chinese, West African, Congolese and Japanese can be found in all of the major cities and many of the larger towns. In addition, there are also a large number of home-grown chain restaurants, such as Spur and Mugg & Bean.

Typical South African foods and dishes

• Biltong, a salty dried meat (similar to jerky)
• Bobotie, a dish of Malay descent, is like meatloaf with raisins and with baked egg on top, and is often served with yellow rice, sambals, coconut, banana slices, and chutney
• Boerewors, a sausage that is traditionally braaied (barbequed)
• Bunny chow, curry stuffed into a hollowed-out loaf of bread
• Chutney, a sweet sauce made from fruit that is usually poured on meat, especially a local brand called Mrs Ball's Chutney
• Frikkadelle - meatballs
• Gesmoorde vis, salted cod with potatoes and tomatoes and sometimes served with apricot jam
• Hoenderpastei, chicken pie, traditional Afrikaans fare
• Isidudu, pumpkin pap
• Koeksusters come in two forms and are a sweet delicacy. Afrikaans koeksusters are twisted pastries, deep fried and heavily sweetened. Koeksusters found on the Cape Flats are sweet and spicy, shaped like large eggs, and deep-fried
• Malva Pudding, a sweet spongy Apricot pudding of Dutch origin.
• Mashonzha, made from the mopane worm
• Melktert (milk tart), a milk-based dessert
• Mealie-bread, a sweet bread baked with sweetcorn
• Mielie-meal, one of the staple foods, often used in baking but predominately cooked into pap, or phutu, a traditional Bantu porridge which is usually eaten with beans, gravy, or meat
• Ostrich is an increasingly popular protein source as it has a low cholesterol content; it is either used in a stew or filleted and grilled
• Pampoenkoekies (pumpkin flapjacks), patatrolle (sweet potato rolls) and a further variety of baked goods where flour has been supplemented with or replaced by pumpkin or sweet potato
• Potbrood (pot bread), savoury bread baked over coals in cast-iron pots
• Potjiekos, a traditional Afrikaans stew made with meat and vegetables and cooked over coals in cast-iron pots
• Rusks, a rectangular, hard, dry biscuit eaten after being dunked in tea or coffee; they are either home-baked or shop-bought (with the most popular brand being Ouma Rusks)
• Samosa or samoosa, a savoury stuffed Indian pastry that is fried
• Sosaties, grilled marinated meat on a skewer
• Tomato bredie, a lamb and tomato stew
• Trotters and Beans, from the Cape, made from boiled pig's or sheep's trotters and onions and beans
• Umngqusho, a dish made from semolina and black-eyed peas
• Vetkoek (fat cake), deep-fried dough balls, typically stuffed with meat or served with jam
• Waterblommetjie bredie (water flower stew), meat stewed with the flower of the Cape Pondweed

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