Gourmet Caterers Orange County

Gourmet Caterers had the pleasure of catering for a South African party. A 75th Birthday celebration. Being South African ourselves its always fun to make a traditional menu. It was a small party, but had a big selection of foods. The appetizers were beef sosaties made up of beef, apricots and red onion and served with a delicious sauce with onions, curry, ginger etc…, also for appetizers we served traditional vegetarian samoosas, with a hint of chillies and curry.

For main course we served at room temperature pickled fish with curry, lots of onions and bay leaves and apricots. Cube steak with a monkeygland sauce, which is a sauce rich in onions, tomatoes, garlic and chutney -delicious. Babotie - which is a traditional dish similar to meatloaf but on the sweeter and curried side. Cape chicken curry-made with a delicious selection of fresh herbs, chilli powder, cardamon, tomatoes etc, served with yellow rice with raisins. The traditional home made boerewors (this is beef sausage) served with mielie pap, this is maize meal that has been cooked with water slowly at a low temp to get thick and is served with a tomato, onion like gravy we call train smash…. We also served pumpkin fritters with cinnamon and sugar. Dessert was koeksisters, this a donut type dessert, fried dough dipped immediately in a cold sugar liquid, this gives it, its sweet flavor, but it is not glossy, or coated in the liquid, it just absorbs some, and then drips off. Fresh fruit was served as well. All the South Africans and everyone else enjoyed the evening.