Chakalaka

How to cook Chakalaka?

Chakalaka is a spicy vegetable dish, which includes tomatoes, carrots, beans, onions and spices. The dish appeared in the city of Johannesburg, South Africa. This dish is served with meat or eaten as a main dish. A very flavorful and low-calorie dish. We used garlic, chilli pepper, curry powder, paprika, ginger, thyme and the main ingredients. Canned beans were taken, if you use dried beans, then soak it for 12 hours and boil it additionally before adding it at the time of cooking.

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Recipe type: Main dishes

Recipe type: South African

Yield: 6-8

Prep time: 30 mins

Cook time: 30 mins

Total time: 1 hour

Ingredients:

Garlic — 2 cloves

Yellow onion — 140 grams

Grated ginger — ½ teaspoon

Tomatoes — 320 grams

Sweet red bell pepper — 200 grams

Carrots — 160 grams

Chilli pepper — 2 pods

Canned white beans — 200 grams

Frying oil

Thyme — ½ teaspoon

Ground paprika — ½ teaspoon

Smoked ground paprika — ½ teaspoon

Curry powder — 1 teaspoon

Parsley for decoration

Directions:

1. Finely chop the garlic.

2. Peel and cut the onion 1 inch (2 cm) in size.

3. Tomatoes, sweet peppers and carrots are cut into pieces 1-2 inches (2-5 cm) in size.

4. Finely chop chilli pepper. Remove the seeds.

5. Heat the frying oil in a frying pan over medium heat.

6. Add the beans to the pan. Cook for 10 minutes. Stir regularly. Put it aside.

7. Separately heat the frying oil in a frying pan over medium heat.

8. Add onion to the pan. Cook for 5 minutes.

9. Add garlic, ginger, chilli pepper, thyme, paprika, smoked paprika, curry powder to the onion. Mix it up.

10. Add carrots, tomatoes and beans. Cook for 10 minutes.

Serving: Serve hot. It is combined with meat. Garnish with parsley leaves.

Bon Appetit!