Boerewors Rolls from South Africa

If you live in South Africa you nip down to your local supermarket and buy a pack of boerewors and a packet of hot dog rolls and you are A for away.  However, if you live in a place far from South African influences, then you might have to make your own hot dog rolls and boerewors.  Boerewors loosely translated means farmers' sausage.  There are many varieties of boerwors, many closely-guarded secret recipes.  If you have a mincer attachment to your mixer, chances are you'll have the sausage-making attachments as well.  Electric mincer/ sausage-makers are reasonably cheap to buy, you can get them for under $30!  When you make your own sausages you know exactly what is going into it.  Some commercially produced sausages have very little meat in them.  The big thing you have to do is source hog casings.  This is not as difficult as it sounds.  Wherever sausage is made there are hog casings available for you to buy.

Hot Dog Rolls
1 cup milk
1/2 cup water
1/4 cup butter
4 1/2 cups flour
1 packet instant yeast
2 tablespoons sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon salt
1 egg
Warm the butter, milk and water.  Add it to the mixing bowl containing the flour, salt, sugar and yeast.  Mix, add the egg and knead it until the dough pulls together and becomes smooth and elastic.  Divide the dough into 12 pieces.  Shape them into long rectangles and leave them covered in a warm place and allow them to rise for about half an hour.  Bake in an oven pre-heated to 200 degrees Celsius for 10 to 12 minutes until golden brown.

Boerewors
3 kg meat cuts into chunks ready for mincing (Can be a mixture of beef, lamb and pork)
1/2 teaspoon nutmeg
4 teaspoons salt
3 tablespoons coarsely ground coriander seeds
1 teaspoon black pepper
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1/2 cup vinegar
Hog casings
Mince the meat, mix together with all the ingredients and use the sausage-making attachment on your mincer to stuff the hog casings.  Traditionally boerewors is made as one long length.  While this is a basic boerewors recipe, you can experiment and add in some herbs, or even cut down some of the vinegar and add in red wine.

Assembling the boerewors rolls
Grill, BBQ or fry the boerewors.  Cut into piece after it has cooked, roughly the same length as your rolls.  Cut open a roll lengthwise and put in a piece of cooked boerewors.  Add in fried onions, mustard, tomato sauce, sweet chili sauce or chutney, whatever you wish as an extra condiment.
Cindy Vine is a South African currently working in Kyiv Ukraine.  She's the author of Hush Baby, Defective, Not Telling, C U @ 8 and The Case of Billy B.  All her books are available on Amazon in both print and Kindle format.  http://cindyvine.com