ROAST CHICKEN RECIPE

ROAST CHICKEN, RICE  AND VEGETABLES

In the Cape, Chicken takeout is as common as sand. It is everywhere, you get it Nando's Chicken, Kentucky Chicken (KFC), Hungry Lion, Chicken Licken, Mehanos, Marchelos, and so, so, many other chicken joints. Each and everyone of them average in flavour, that needs to be salvaged by condiments. The kind of flavour that you get tired of after about three visits. Yet none of them beats Foods of the Cape oven roasted chicken, roasted to perfection, extra crispy and dowsed with garlic butter sauce. Look at these twin chickens, oven roasted  to perfection, tender and succulent with an aroma to die for. There is nothing to beat homemade food for taste, economy and appearance and crispy. The secret to golden brown, well done, tender chicken is slow oven roast on a rotisserie, then place on rack for the fat to melt then baste with garlic sauce. (Mayonnaise is optional). Remember that you eat with your eyes and by just looking at this chicken you can already taste it.  The sauce is made by melting butter with crushed garlic salt and pepper and a teaspoon of chicken spice, powdered thyme and oregano. The fragrant rice is cooked with a teaspoon of tumeric, two or three sticks of cinnamon an six pods of cardamon and salt to taste. Yams [(sweet potato) Patat] are oven roasted and the squash and marrow is steamed to preserve its nutty taste. Serve whilst hot and don't forget to lick those fingers. Not leftover chicken can be shredded and turned into a beautiful chicken and mayo salad or as a topping for a pizza.

Twin chickens, oven roasted  to perfection, tender and succulent in garlic butter sauce.

Fragrant Yellow Rice flavoured with Cinnamon and Cardamon

Chicken Skin Roasted to perfection, succulent and mouth watering with a aroma to die for.

Fluffy loose grained Fragrant Yellow Rice flavoured with Cinnamon and Cardamon

Twin roast chickens in garlic butter sauce with Parsons nose slightly deflated.

Roasted Thigh quarter, fragrant yellow rice, with steamed Buttered squash, Butternut and Yam

Two chickens with rice squash, butternut and yam comfortably feeds a family of six for under $20

ROASTED SHEEP TONGUES

POT ROASTED SHEEP TONGUES

Delectable foods like Caviar on crackers, Duck Liver Pâté on toast, Ox Trotters in tomato, Tripe (haggis) curry, Mopani worms, Chicken feet soup, Crocodile steaks, Chicken and duck hearts & livers, Filleted Snake, Roasted Cow tongue, Beetroot leaves bhagi curry, Placenta lasagne, Pickled pigs feet, Shrimp curry, Fried Bull testicles, Scrambled Lamb brains with eggs, Raw oysters with lemon juice, Chicken gizzards and giblets in gravy, Braised Spicy hog balls,  Blood pancakes, Pizzle (bull penis) sandwiches, Rollmops, Pan fried Intloko yemvu - sheep head (smiley) are just some of the fear factor foods your parents and grandparents loved. These are a sampling of the foods of the Cape, but also doubles-up as some of the International delicacies enjoyed by various nationalities the world over. One man's meat  is certainly another mans poison. I say to each his own.

PREPARATION
Pot roasted sheep tongues is a delicacy enjoyed by many in the Cape and is available at several local restaurants. It is a Lebanese / middle eastern  dish and also enjoyed by the Japanese known as gyutan literally meaning cow tongue. The best way to prepare them is just salt and pepper, but a healthy amount of pepper. Don't peel potatoes but half them and place them in a sauce pan together with the tongues and add a sprinkle of vegetable oil. When potatoes are done, the tongues will also be done. Slow roast is the key. If preferred the tongues may be halved lengthwise since the outer skin is quite tough when roasted. The roasted skin is totally edible yet  and many people prefer to only eat the softer flesh inside. It's great on sandwiches, both grated and sliced. Restaurants in the Cape Town serves sliced tongue on garlic rolls with mustard, as a tomato stew, or in a salad with shredded tongue and beans sprouts.

Sheep Tongues with potatoes with skins simmering in oil

Sheep tongues flipped over so that they are well sheared all round

Sheep tongues heavy peppered and little salted

Sheep Tongues and pot roasted potatoes roasting slowly.

Sheep tongues pot roasted golden brown virtually done.

Sheep Tongues and Potatoes pot roasted to perfection flavour with Salt and a healthy dose of Pepper

Roast chicken, salt and pepper, sweet potato, thyme and oregano., yams,