How to make boerewors rolls the South African way
Making homemade boerewors might be daunting. However, with the right guide, creating the sizzling South African delicacy might turn out as simple as ABC. The spiral rolls are the perfect cuisine for barbeques. Here is a guide on how to make boerewors rolls the South African way.
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The much-loved boerewors is an essential part of South African cuisine. The delicacy is a type of sausage with South African origin that is ideal for a grilling party. Boerewors, in Afrikaans, means farmer’s sausage. The tasty sausages are hugely popular on any South African braai or barbeque. Learn how to make boerewors rolls using the South African boerewors resepte.
What does boerewors taste like?
Boerewors taste different from the other sausages. They bear a rich taste of beef and spices such as coriander, nutmeg, and cloves. Braai wors are sausages made up of 90% meat and 10% spice mixed with other minor ingredients such as salt and vinegar.
An essential component of boerewors rolls is beef, although it can also contain goat, lamb, or pork meat. The maximum percentage of fat content in the meat is 30%.
What is the difference between sausage and boerewors?
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Most South African barbeques cannot come to an end without some sausage on the braai. However, most people can never tell the difference between boerewors rolls and sausages. Well, there's a vast difference between the two.
The significant difference between a boerewors and a regular sausage is the percentage of the meat content. For a braai roll to be named as one, there must be a 90% meat content. However, for regular sausages, the meat content must be at least 75%. This difference in the meat content makes braai wors generally more expensive than regular sausage. Similarly, the braai wors are considered tastier than sausages due to their meat differences.
What is boerewors skin made of?
The boerewors skin is known as the casing. Several products can be used in the making of the casing. For most rolls, the casing is made out of well-trimmed animal intestines. The intestines have to be adequately cleaned for use as casing. More so, some casings are made out of alginate and collagen.
The collagen is obtained from bones while alginate is a viscous gum obtained from seaweed. The casing of the rolls is essential in enclosing the contents of the rolls.
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Is boerewors processed meat?
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The wors must contain beef or a combination of beef with either lamb or pork. The use of processed meat in the making of wors is forbidden.
How do you cook boerewors?
The traditional method of cooking braai wors is by grilling the rolls over charcoal. The preparation of the braai wors has revolutionized into cooking by electric grills, oven-baking, or by frying in a pan.
Although the methods of cooking the roll may vary, the primary ingredients of the braai wors are the same. Here’s how to make boerewors.
Boerewors ingredients
- 1 kilogram of beef
- 1 kilogram of lean pork
- 1 kilogram of lamb or mutton
- ½ kilogram of bacon
- 2 tablespoons of table salt or sea salt
- 1 tablespoon of coriander
- ½ tablespoon of nutmeg powder
- ½ cup of pepper (black pepper)
- ¼ teaspoon of cloves (ground cloves)
- 200g of sausage casings
Procedure to make wors
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The method of preparing the braai wors might be slightly different according to your preferences. However, below is a champion boerewors recipe that will guarantee you perfectly made boerewors braai.
- First, grind all the meat coarsely.
- Mix all the dry ingredients in a bowl.
- Sprinkle the ground meat in the bowl of dry ingredients and mix them evenly.
- Add vinegar to the mixture.
- Place the mixture in the fridge to marinate for 2-4 hours.
- Upon removing the mixture from the fridge, soak your sausage casings in water.
- Use a sausage maker to fill the casings with the braai wors mixture.
- Proceed to cook the rolls either by grilling or deep-frying.
Special tips for cooking braai wors the South African way
- Ensure that the grills are perfectly heated before you start to cook.
- Ensure that you have a good pair of tongs for easy turning of the rolls while on the grill. Weak tongs could easily break the rolls.
- Place the roll on one side of the grill and make sure there is no direct heat towards them. The rolls will cook slowly and steadily.
- Cook for at least 20 minutes.
- Ensure that you do not turn the rolls too often.
- In case you feel like you need more colour on the rolls, apply some direct heat at the end.
- Make sure that you do not leave the rolls to dry out while cooking.
Boerewors stew
Braai wors could also be transformed into a stew. The process is quite easy. Chop your rolls into bite-sized pieces and make them into a stew using local ingredients of your own. The first step would be to fry sliced onions in oil and add your pieces of wors. Add your spicing ingredients into the frying mixture and simmer for 15 minutes.
The unique, distinctive taste of braai wors could drive you into finding the in boerewors recipes. Therefore, finding the perfect wors recipes and a guide on how to braai will train your skills on making wors.
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