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Jan Braai | Venison Sosaties Recipe
Venison

Venison Sosaties

This is a great way to braai your venison, a very lean meat. I suggest using the fillet of a larger animal, so more kudu than springbok. Cut the meat into small blocks, rather too small than too big. The marinade adds some bite, sweet and sour, and the long marinating time not only imparts these flavours into the meat but also tenderises it. Before the braai, you skewer the meat with dried fruit and bacon. All this contributes to a truly great sosatie. This recipe comes from Limpopo, which makes sense, as there are a lot of game farms and consequently venison in that area. Don’t overbraai the meat – yes, it has a lot of supporting actors, but the most important factor to ensure juicy meat is to not dry it out on the fire.

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Jan Braai | Sherry Boerewors Sliders Recipe
Beef

Sherry Boerewors Sliders

A ‘slider’ is the culinary term for a miniature hamburger or more accurately, a small piece of meat served on a mini bread roll. Forming and braaing miniature little patties always seemed like far too much hard work to me, as both the preparation and the braaing would be complex. Boerewors was an easy solution to this. My other problem with sliders is that they are sometimes heavy on the bread and light on the meat. Again, this is something we can solve by simply not closing them with another piece of bread, thereby upping our ratio of meat to bread. Sherry, the original Old Brown type, is a very good value-for-money product to braai with, and one of the core ingredients of this recipe. The sweetness of the sherry complements the spiciness of the boerewors perfectly. Makes about 30 pieces.

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