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
-Koeksisters come in two forms and are a sweet delicacy. Afrikaans koeksisters are twisted pastries, deep fried and heavily sweetened. Koeksisters 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 tart or dessert
-Melkkos (milk food), another 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 fritters), 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 African 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