Botswana Beef - Make this Safari Favorite at Home!

Botswana Beef

This recipe is often served on mobile safaris in Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe, such as our Botswana Explorer. You can easily make this bush favorite at home!

Serves 4

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250ml beer

125ml olive oil

60ml soy sauce

4 cloves garlic, crushed

1 thumb fresh root ginger, peeled and crushed

2 red chillies, seeded and chopped

5ml paprika

10ml ground peppercorns

10ml coriander seeds, crushed

4 x 225g fillet steaks

45ml olive oil for cooking

8 large cloves whole garlic, peeled

Salt and ground pepper

To Serve:

4 banana leaves

Fresh chillies

In a deep ceramic dish combine the beer, olive oil, soy sauce, crushed garlic, ginger, chillies, paprika, ground peppercorns and coriander.

Add the steaks and coat well with marinade. Leave for at least 6 hours.

Heat a large cast-iron pan. Add the olive oil for cooking, steaks and whole garlic.

Seal steaks for 3 minutes on each side, then cook until ready.

Season with salt and pepper to taste.

To Serve:

Wrap each fillet in a strip of banana leaf and garnish with fresh chillies as per photograph.

recipe from:

A Kitchen Safari

Stories & Recipes from the African Wilderness

by Dumi Ndlovu and Yvonne Short

Struik Publishers 2007

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