Father’s Day Party Special Dish: Biltong Pasta With Mushrooms

Father’s Day is near and you would be looking for ways to offer your dad a true surprise.

You know what- men love delicious recipes and this summer, you can prepare your own biltong pasta dish to offer a heavenly treat to your dad. And this could be prepared in a large quantity too for your party.

Here is an amazing biltong pasta recipe that contains mushrooms too and could serve as many as 50 people in your father’s day party.

The Preparation Ingredients:

• Spaghetti- 1.5 kilograms

• Biltong- 1 KG (traditional or periperi biltong)

• Button mushrooms- 500 grams

• Cheddar cheese- 1 kg (grated)

• Sour Cream- 750 ml

• Onions (large)- 12 Nos.

• Bell peppers (green and red)

• Chicken Stock- about 5 teacups

• Tomato paste- 8 tablespoon

• Veggies (seasonal or frozen)- about 1 KG (this one is optional)

• Green herbs and garlic for flavors

• Salt and black pepper for seasoning

To Prepare The Sauce:

• Take about 3 to 4 liters of waters in a container, add chicken stock, herbs and tomato paste and bring this mixture to boil.

• Allow it to get heated until its consistency turns thick.

To Prepare The Pasta:

• Take a pan, drizzle a generous portion of olive oil and add onions, garlic and green peppers to it. Fry this until the onions turn soft.

• If you opted to include veggies, add these to the pan.

• Place your pasta, add thickened tomato sauce and place the lid. Let it get cooked for about 15 to 20 minutes.

• After it gets cooked, check the veggies and see if it is fine enough according to your father’s taste. A bit crunchy veggies would always be a good option in pasta.

• To this cooked mixture, add sour cream, mushrooms and mix them together well.

• Add chopped peri peri biltong, cheddar cheese and mix it again. Let the heat be low and cook it at the same heat for about 30 more minutes.

• Add grated parmesan cheese over the entire mixture.

Your biltong-mushroom-pasta is ready to serve and this is best served hot with some salads.

A Piece Of Advice:

The above dish is fit for a party of people and you can lessen the content of each ingredient according to the number of people.

Also, be very careful in choosing the biltong. People generally get grass fed beef online or from some stores and this grass-fed beef biltong is the best for your preparation.

Biltong-Parmesan Burgers: How To Prepare The Taste-Bomb

If you are a true foodie, most of your time would be spent on searching for the newest delicacies which could satisfy your taste buds.

And you would have already heard about the South African dried meat recipes- the biltong and jerky.

Generally, people order biltong and beef jerky in wholesale as these are second to none in terms of their taste.

And here we have brought for you a method to enhance the taste of traditional biltong with a bit of your efforts. You can prepare the delicious parmesan-biltong burger which is similar to an atom bomb of taste.

Here is the easy preparation method for the lip-smacking delicacy:

Ingredients:

• Biltong (chopped to pieces)- 30g

• Minced beef- 200g

• Seeded Buns- 2 Nos.

• Parmesan Cheese- 30g, finely grated

• Mayonnaise- 3 tablespoon

• Mustard- 2 teaspoon

• Tomatoes- thinly sliced for toppings

• Beetroot- shredded for toppings

• Watercress- For topping

• Salt and black pepper- as per your taste

Preparation Method:

• Roll the minced beef and divide it in 2. Offer it the shape of a round pattyand heat in on a hot pan. Sprinkle salt and pepper and turn them brown on each side.

• Mix the grated parmesan and biltong and keep them aside. Transfer the cooked patties to the grill and sprinkle the biltong-parmesan mixture generously. Let it be grilled for about 5 minutes.

• Toss the seeded buns on the pan for about a minute. If you want them rich, add a teaspoon of butter to the pan.

• Mix the mayo and mustard together. For more spiciness, you can add a pinch of cayenne pepper. Take a bun and spread this mixture on it.

• Put the grilled patty on top and garnish it with sliced tomatoes, shredded beetroot,and watercress.

• Sprinkle some more biltong-parmesan mixture above this if you want. Do this with the other bun too.

And here it is. The scrumptious, appetizing savory dish that is enough to arouse interest and hunger of almost any person.

Simple beef burgers are good, but the ones that contain the added flavors or biltong or jerky etc. are simply out of the world.

So if you do not have the dried meat products at home, you can order biltong and beef jerky online and prepare the recipe at home in the least of hassles.

It takes very less time to get prepared but offers a kind of taste which would better be a memorable experience.

How To Prepare Delicious Droewors At Home

If you talk about the traditional South African delicacies, the most popular dried meat ones would almost always occupy a prominent spot on your list.

The traditional South African biltong and Droewors etc. are the products which have now lured the people from almost all over the world and have taken many new incarnations.

Here, we would inform you a very simple method to prepare Droewors which would be extremely healthy too.

The Ingredients For Preparation:

• The major ingredient is minced lean beef- about 3 kg. Do not get fatty meat which spoils the taste. Also, ensure getting beef or lamb onlyas other meats might get greasy.

• Additional Fat- about 300 grams

• Droewors casings

• Spices of your choice- coriander, black pepper, nutmeg, and cloves etc.

• Salt- as per your taste

The Preparation Method:

• Mix the minced meat and the fat in a container. The less is the amount of fat, leaner would be your Droewors. But if the fat is very less, the delicacies may come out dry. Be very careful!

• Add spices to the mixture, mixing it very carefully with your hands. Transfer the meat to the refrigerator for about 3 hours and let the spices sink in the meat.

• After the stipulated time, take the container out and mix the spices again.

• Fill the casings with the minced meat mixture, ensuring no air entrance in the same. You can use plastic casings or sheep casings which are easily available.

• Allow the packed mixture to dry at a temperature of 30^oC with UV light on for about 24 hours.

• After this, hang the Droewors on a metal or plastic hook and allow them to dry. Avoid hanging them on wooden pegs.

• The meat should be allowed to dry for about 5 days, after which it is ready to be consumed.

And this is how you can prepare the delicious Droewors at home in the least of hassles.

Similarly, the dried beef biltong and jerky too could be easily prepared at home with the help of biltong dryers which are easily available.

Droewors are highly delicious and a perfect snack for any time of the day. They could be consumed by people of almost any age and provide lots of nutritional benefits too.

Note: The additional fat which you use to prepare Droewors should be used in a measured quantity. Any more or less is the amount and your Droewors would not be as flavorful as you desire. .