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With half a dozen yummy new cookbooks on the shelves it’s going to be a delicious September.

Rebecca and Kate Lund, aka the Delish Sisters, are constantly inspired by the everchanging food industry and love to create beautiful food experiences for clients, friends and family. They enjoy experimenting with new and exotic spices and ingredients, and encouraging people to be adventurous, too! The recipes in their book are fresh, wholesome, colourful, seasonal and “mostly” healthy… so while there are indulgent dishes and treats, they keep everything as balanced and as inclusive as possible… so also loads of sugar-free, gluten-free recipes, delicious vegetarian options and tasty vegan food. Penguin, R300.

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My Vegetarian Braai. Gasps of horror from the carnivores! But this lovely book by Adele Maartens is not about trying to convert meat eaters… rather to show there is more to braai than boerewors. With the growing trend of plant-based eating, there’s an excellent chance one of your guests is going to be vegetarian… so here are a host of delicious meals to dish up. With a few vegan recipes too, so everyone’s catered for. Penguin, R325.

Twin sisters Fatima Sydow and Gadija Sydow Noordien bring the taste of South African Malay-style cooking to your kitchen in this spicy new cookbook, Cape, Curry & Koesisters. You’ll find recipes for masalas, soups, light meals and snacks (samosas or pickled salmon and onion salad anyone?). Rice, sambals and atchar feature (of course), followed by the big guns of curry, breyani and ahkni. Here we dithered happily between butter chicken curry, frikkadel curry, slow braised lamb chops with apricot chutney and steak and potato braise. All look too, too scrumptious for words. Puds like melktart and malva, along with luscious cakes (koesisters coming up), round off the book in diet-breaking style. Human & Rousseau, R330.

 

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