FOOD FEATURE

GOOD EATING WITH KOO Make your own delicious chakalaka hamburgers

Nothing is as tasty or South African as chakalaka relish on a hamburger. Here’s how to make a mighty pleasing meal: Ingredients:

• 30ml sunflower oil • 4 x 100 g beef patties • 4 hamburger rolls, halved • 1 x 410 g can KOO MILD & SPICY

CHAKALAKA • Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste

To serve:

• Dairybelle choice butter • Fresh lettuce • 1 ripe tomato, sliced

Method:

• Grease a griddle pan with the oil. Heat and add the beef patties. Grill until cooked. • Add the hamburger rolls to the griddle pan cut-side down and toast until golden in colour. • Heat the KOO MILD & SPICY

CHAKALAKA in a small heavy-based saucepan and cook until heated through. • Spread the butter onto each roll.

Arrange a piece of lettuce on the bottom half of the toasted bread roll, add a slice of tomato, a hamburger patty and a spoonful of KOO MILD &

SPICY CHAKALAKA. Season to taste. • Place the remaining bread roll halves on top. Serve immediately.

Variation:

• For Chakalaka boerewors rolls replace the patties with boerewors and the rolls with hotdog rolls.

Like many great ideas, this one, too, had humble beginnings. The founders initially started testing their ribs process and recipes in the back of a restaurant kitchen and started operating in their first premises of over just 60 square metres. Over the course of almost 30 years of tireless research and development, a few “back to the drawing board” moments and the combined efforts of these industry mavericks and various professionals from the restaurant, hotel and food service industry, “the perfect rib” finally became a reality. Today, not only ribs but an entire range of fully cooked and marinated BRM meat products are available to both the restaurant and catering industries as well as directly to consumers through retail chains and a well-stocked factory shop.

ONE SUCCULENT BITE AT A TIME

BRM gets the juices flowing

Tender, succulent barbeque ribs … the very thought makes the juices flow. The problem facing entrepreneurs Seymour Talpert and Johnny Candelaria, however, was where to find them. This is why, in the mid 1980s, they founded Barbeque Rib Manufacturers, or “BRM” as the company is known today. The company grew out of a real need identified by Talpert and Candelaria for top quality, perfectly marinated ribs, an extremely popular item on South African menus.

The two say that, for people working in the industry, sourcing rib meat of consistently high quality, that was also quick and easy to prepare, was a challenge. The ideal product had to be of exceptional quality, flavoursome, with not too much fat, marinated to perfection, fall-off-the-bone tender and fully cooked - requiring nothing more than a few minutes of flash-grilling on a grill or over an open flame for that authentic steakhouse taste.

WINNING WITH IWISA

Maize is ace

Maize meal is part and parcel of our lives, and has been a part of African culture for decades. Where would we be without maize?

And when it comes to maize, Iwisa is South Africa’s top brand, found in practically every home in the land. With summer here, South Africans will be doing what they do best – braaing – and what better than to bring maize into the picture while indulging in our favourite pastime? Here is our Iwisa recipe for a scrumptious South African braai dumpling.

Maize meal braai dumplings Make slap-pap like a true South African:

• 2 cups water • 2 TBSP Maize meal • 1tsp salt • Boil the water in a saucepan, then add the maize meal and stir vigorously. • Simmer for 20 minutes until cooked. • Allow to cool while you have a drink • Beat 2 eggs into pap • Add 2 cups flour • 2tsp baking powder • 2 cups of grated Cheddar cheese • Mix well • Spoon teaspoonfuls into deep hot oil

(not boiling hot otherwise they will not cook completely and just burn) and fry until brown. • They’ll turn over half way by themselves… very cute!! • Dry with kitchen towel • Sprinkle Aromat once the oil has drained.

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CHANGING LIVES WITH CHIBUKU

In a bid to get to know their customers on a personal level and interacting with them one on one, United National Breweries went on a six month nationwide road trip to meet the drinkers of Chibuku, the beer of Africa. This was done in the form a life changing competition, the Chibuku Games, as the competition is known, where they gave away a house worth R350 000 and a vehicle worth R150 000. Spotong magazine was invited to the handover of the house and vehicle on 16 September, which was held in Soshanguve at the actual prize house. A celebratory ceremony was put together right outside the house. Chibuku came with music, drinks and food and met up with the Soshanguve ext 4 community as

they waited with the winner. We met up with Paul Lekiba, the General Manager (Sales) of United National Breweries who explained to us how the competition worked. United National Breweries are the producers of Chibuku sorghum beer which is the company’s leading brand. The competition ran for six months and was centred on the old school popular game of Morabaraba. As a tavern you would have to register your tavern as a participant of the competition. Then patrons from your tavern would register, using a loyalty card format driven competition, as individual players. Then a league system was created where the taverns played against each other. Each tavern would produce an overall winner who would play against winners of other taverns. Players who made the semi finals and finals travelled all over the country to be at nominated playing venues to meet their opponents. UNB paid for all these trips. A total of 5 000 individuals and 72 outlets from across the country participated in total.

Mr Samuel Selowa, a 75-year-old father of seven from Soshanguve, outshone the entire country and came out tops. He joined the competition from Mr Phenious Duma’s outlet in Soshanguve where he is a regular patron and started playing morabaraba there with his friends. We met with Mr Selowa personally, who told us that he only spent a total of about R60 on the loyalty card over the promotion period on his Chibuku cartons, went through the lucky draw process, played many opponents until he reached the finals of the Morabaraba ultimate champion competition, to eventually win the house worth R350 000. The great news for you as a tavern owner is that if the ultimate winner of the Chibuku Games is registered with your outlet, you, the outlet owner, win a bakkie worth R150 000 just for being a licensed and participating outlet. Mr Phinious Duma Mashaya could not stop jumping up and down when he was presented with his brand new Nissan NP 300 bakkie with a canopy. He mentioned how this was going to cut down a lot of logistical costs for him as he had never owned his own transport.

United national breweries GM, Paul Lekiba ,ended the day by telling us “Our company encourages making a difference in people’s lives, we make the impossible, possible.” And that they have really done for Mr Selowa, his wife and children.

The competition is now open for another six months, starting 1 November 2014 and a house and a bakkie are up for grabs. For your licensed tavern to participate please contact United National Breweries or find their nearest situated depot in your area.