Traditional food of Western Cape: 10 dishes

• Bobotie · Main dish · Cape Town

  Bobotie is spiced minced meat baked under a layer of egg and milk, sweet and savoury at once, often with raisins or chutney, and served with yellow rice.

• Koe'sister koesister · Dessert · Western Cape (Cape Malay)

  The koe'sister, or koesister, is a traditional Cape Malay pastry of Cape Town, often described as a spicy dumpling with a cake-like texture.

• Gatsby · Street food · Western Cape

  The Gatsby is a long sandwich from Cape Town: a bread roll split lengthwise and filled with hot slap chips, soft fried potato chips, plus a filling of the buyer's choice.

• Tomato bredie tamatiebredie · Main dish · Western Cape

  Tomato bredie, tamatiebredie in Afrikaans, is a South African stew, normally of mutton, cooked for a very long time with cinnamon, cardamom, ginger, cloves and chilli.

• Waterblommetjiebredie · Main dish · Western Cape

  Waterblommetjiebredie means 'stew of little water flowers' in Afrikaans.

• Sosatie · Main dish · Western Cape

  Sosatie is a traditional South African dish of meat, usually lamb or mutton, cooked on skewers, and it is of Cape Malay origin.

• Malva pudding malvapoeding · Dessert · Western Cape

  Malva pudding is a South African baked pudding made with apricot jam, with a spongy, caramelised texture.

• Mebos · Dessert · Western Cape

  Mebos is a South African sweet made from dried apricots seasoned with sugar or salt; the Afrikaans article describes it as sweet outside, with a salty and sour taste inside.

• Bokkoms · Snack · West Coast

  Bokkoms, also bokkems, are whole southern mullet, known in the Western Cape as harders, salted and then dried in the sun and wind.

• Rooibos tea rooibostee · Drink · Cederberg

  Rooibos, Afrikaans for 'red bush', is a broom-like plant, Aspalathus linearis, of the fynbos of South Africa, and the caffeine-free herbal tea made from its leaves.

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