INSTANT RICE COOKER SWEET RICE This Recipe Serves 4-6 Instant Rice Cooker Sweet Rice (Easy South African Dessert Recipe) If you love traditional South African sweet rice but want an easier, hands-off method, this Instant Rice Cooker Sweet Rice recipe is for you. Made with fragrant cinnamon, cardamom, butter, milk, and sugar, this comforting dessert…
MAAVILAKKU – RICE FLOUR LAMP This Recipe Makes 1 Lamp Maavilakku is an auspicious edible lamp made with rice flour & is believed to be offered to Perumal (the family deity) & the divine Mother Mariamman, by the Hindu God Vishnu (Lord Venkatachalapathy), to pacify her anger at humanity sins & transgressions. Lighting…
BRAISED BROWN CHICKPEAS – KADLE This Indian Dessert Recipe Serves 2-4 Braised Brown Chickpeas – Kadle as most of us South African’s know it is synonymous with prayers of the Indian culture. Growing up & being a part of the Hindu background, this dish used to be accompanied with sweet rice as they…
SOUTH AFRICAN SWEET RICE This Indian Dessert Recipe Serves 2-4 South African Sweet Rice is a heavenly Indian Rice pudding synonymous with prayers of the Indian culture which you will most likely find within South Africa. Growing up & being a part of the Hindu background, my gran used to prepare sweet…
SOUR PORRIDGE This Recipe Makes ±400 Milliliters In the Indian community, most Tamil South Africans make this Sour Porridge for the Mariamman prayer (porridge prayer). Sour Porridge is basically a gruel prepared from fermented maize meal (mealie meal). It is not to be confused with other traditional African fermented drinks like mahewu, incwancwa…