Sosatie Flavoured Fruit & Vegetable Curry

Sasotie Flavoured Fruit & Vegetable Curry

This Sosatie flavoured fruit curry has delicious flavours and smells from the Sunshine Coast's locally made Afrika Sasotie Aromatic Curry with Apricots sauce (you can buy online or create your own Sosatie sauce) and uses fresh local pineapple, and is  served with a wholegrain/wild rice and local Essential Grain Crusty Sour Dough Bread. The fruity flavour and being a non-hot curry makes this a great family dish and popular with kids and guests. The smells while it cooks alone will get the whole house excited about dinner.

Perfect for a chilli day.

Ingredients
• 1 jar Afrika Sosatie curry sauce ( you can buy this all around the sunshine coast and online or google Sosatie and make your own!)
• 1 large fresh pineapple
• 2 stalks celery
• 1 red capsicum
• 3 zucchini’s
• 1 large sweet potato
• 1 onion
• ½ cup dried apricots
• 4 teaspoons garlic
• 2 teaspoons mild chilli ( or to taste/optional)
• 1 tin apricot halves in natural juice, drain and save juice.
• 1 litre vegetable stock
• 1 cup water
• 1 tablespoon olive oil
• 2 cups wholegrain rice
• ¼ cup wild rice
• 2 tablespoon tapioca flour (gluten free)
• Crusty Sour Dough or gluten free bread to serve
• Natural yoghurt to serve (optional, I use Maleny Dairies)
• A deep frying pan/pot suitable for cooking the curry in


Method
• Combine the wholegrain and wild rice. Cook together according to packet instructions but using the vegetable stock in place of water, adding additional water as needed. Keep warm or time it so rice is warm when serving the curry.
• Peel and chop the sweet potato. Par boil until it can be just penetrated with a fork.
• Chop the onions and fry in a deep pan with the olive oil, chilli and garlic until they are slightly transparent.
• Chop the zucchini, fresh pineapple, capsicum and celery into bite sized pieces.
• Add them into the onion mix with the sweet potato and dried apricots and stir through.
• Pour in the Sosatie sauce, mix and gradually add in the cup of water and half a cup of the apricot juice from the tinned apricots.
• Bring to the boil and then simmer on a medium low heat.
• Whisk the tapioca flour in an equal amount of cold water.
• Add in the tapioca flour to thicken the sauce.
• Stir occasionally and add extra water to the whole dish as needed.
• When all vegetables are cooked add in the drained apricots from the tin, stir through 2 minutes.
• Serve alongside the rice and with slices of fresh crusty essential tastes bread and optionally a dollop of Maleny Dairies natural yoghurt.

Notes
• This dish smells amazing when it is cooking, great for entertaining and dinner parties or to come home too!
• The fresh pineapple and apricots in this really give a sweet and tasty twist on curry and make it very palatable to children and even non curry fans.
• Tastes even better the second day, so great for leftover lunches.
• Add fresh, hot red chilli’s to give it some heat.
• Alternatively serve with pappadams.

Toddler Tips
• The fruity flavour in the curry and the flavoured rice make this a popular dish with young kids too.
• Leave out all chilli.


The tastes of Afrika range make it easy to create exciting dishes that transport your taste buds to an exotic destination. Warm your home and palette this winter with this beautiful and yet simple dish.
I can honestly say both my kids really like this recipe, the fruitiness really appeals to children's taste buds. I highly recommend looking out for them.
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This recipe is from my commercial work portfolio and was created for supermarket Maleny Supa IGA and their Local Product Local Recipe - recipe card series I crafted for them, featuring over 52 recipes.

Recipe and photography (c)RebeccaMugridge

African flavour sensations Babotie flavoured sweet potato curry

Bobotie is a traditional African dish combining curry with fruit, it has an amazing flavour! Now thanks to Gourmet Afrika, a Maleny company you can buy ready-made Bobotie Sauce and Spice Set and make the traditional dish at home or try my version of this dish. Gourmet Afrika range is available from the Maleny Supa IGA, who deliver groceries via online ordering across the Sunshine Coast.
This is my recipe from the Maleny Supa IGA Local Product Local Recipe card series, available to collect in store from their deli counter, celebrating and promoting local producers.

Ingredients
1 jar Gourmet Afrika Bobotie sauce with spice set
1 onion
1 large sweet potato
1 zucchini
1 carrot
1 red capsicum
1 yellow capsicum
¼ cup prunes (pits removed)
1 litre chicken stock ( I like Campbells chicken or vegetable and also Massa stock cubes with no trans fats)
Cooked rice to serve

Method

• In a deep saucepan, heat a little oil and fry onion until translucent.
• Add Bobotie Spice Set, stir together.
• Chop and add in sweet potato, carrot and capsicum, stir.
• Add half the Bobotie Sauce jar and half vegetable stock, mix together.
• Simmer for 20 minutes and add in second half of the vegetable stock, stir.
• Leave to slowly simmer until vegetables are almost cooked through, add zucchini and prunes.
• Simmer for a further 6 minutes, making sure zucchini is cooked.
• Serve with a dollop of Bobotie Sauce on the side and cooked rice.

Notes

• The delicious smells that will come from your kitchen while this cooks will have all your family buzzing around the kitchen!!
• Add meat or vegetarian Sanitarium nut meat for a different version.
• Try the exact traditional Gourment Afrika Bobotie Spice Set, recipe on the packet for a real taste of an Africa dish.
• Add some chilli for extra heat.

Toddler Tips

• Make their version alongside yours in a smaller saucepan, a much milder version with less spices and sauce, more stock and vegetables, serve with rice and Maleny Dairies Natural Acidophilus Yogurt.

This recipe was created by me for the Maleny Supa IGA's  Local Product Local Recipe - collectable recipe cards and all products used in it's creation were from the Maleny Supa IGA.

Happy cooking fellow food lovers!

Rebecca xx