Boerewors- How to cook?

[TheLadyIsAVamp]

I have had a Google but just wondering if anyone has any tried and tested methods/recipes or ideas for serving them?

Barbecued and in a roll is simple but great. A tasty addition is griddled onion cooked in the fat left behind.

you want to find a proper South African butcher, I find many boerewors made by British people more like a pork sausage playing dress up. It should be high proportion meat, coarsely ground, and majority beef. Spiced with nutmeg, cloves, pepper, but coriander seed should be prominent. Making them theoretically is easy, but you would want a meat grinder and sausage stuffer.

@SummaLuvin I didn't buy them they were given to me by a friend who had too many to fit in the freezer. They say they are pure beef authentic South African so hopefully they'll be ok. They are huge though just over 500g each! Unfortunately no access to a BBQ. I do have an indoor grill though which was very expensive and never gets used! Glad I asked now as I was just going to do them with mash veg and gravy 😅.

South African here.

If you aren't going to cook it on a bbq (braai) then you need to either fry or you need grill it. The MOST important thing is to cook it whole. Do not cut it up. Do not prick it. Cook it WHOLE as otherwise it will most likely land up dry as dust.

On that note, do not overcook it! .

Personally, while I don't usually fry sausage, boerewors is one that I do fry. Place the entire ring in a pan over a medium heat with a very small amount of oil. You want it to have time to cook through, without burning the outside so you need some sizzling, but nothing too aggressive. Then turn over. It's tricky to turn so avoid doing this more than once. If you want to get all authentic, go to your favourite south African shop and a few minutes before it's ready, toss in a tin of chakalaka (sort of a tomato relish) to heat through with the boerie!

Grilling might be easier. Place on a grill again at about a medium heat. Once the top is all browned, carefully turn and do the other side.

Do not cut it until you're ready to eat. And this is not a sausage that keeps well so do it just before you eat.

We are purists in our family so it's just boerewors with a nice roll and some ketchup or fried onion and maybe a salad on the side, but you can make any sort of tomato relish and it will go well - boerewors has quite strong flavours so it can take a lot more in flavouring.

Oh, and a technical point - we don't refer to boerewors in plural! . So, that ring of "wors" you have, might well serve multiple people but you'll still refer to "I'm going to cook the boerewors now" or "would you like some boerewors" or "This boerewors is really delicious." 😂