Seswaa

Ingredients

• 800g slow cooking beef
• 1 whole chopped onion (optional)
• 3 bay leaves
• Salt to taste
• Black pepper (optional)
• Water (enough to just cover the meat) 

How to: 

Step 1: Pre heat oven to 160 degrees celcius

Step 2: Cut meat into large chunks then brown in a dish suitable for slow cooking in the oven

Step 3: Add chopped onion, salt, black pepper, and bay leaves 

Step 4: Bring to boil then cover and place into the oven for 4 hours until very soft/overcooked

Step 5: Remove from oven and place on stove burner, cook off remaining liquid

Step 6: Use a wooden spoon to pound or mash up meat until it has a shredded appearance

Step 7: Check seasoning then serve 

Goes well with bogobe jwa lerotse, phaletshe, or phaphatha.

Dikgobe

Ingredients

• 500g samp
• 250g speckled sugar beans
• 1 teaspoon salt (1 tsp)
• 1 teaspoon pepper (1 tsp)
• 10 ml oil 

How to:

Step 1: Soak the samp and beans in cold water overnight to soften them

Step 2: Drain the next day and place in a heavy based saucepan with 1litre of water

Step 3: Add oil and salt

Step 4: Boil until tender

Step 5: Serve and dash with pepper to taste 

Goes well with beef stew, spinach, dried corn.