South African Shish Kebabs

Travel the world’s barbecue trail and you’ll find meat on a stick almost everywhere. South Africa’s version goes by its Afrikaner name: sosatie. Like all good Cape Malay meat dishes, it contains fruit and curry—the fruit (usually apricots) interspersed with the meat on the skewers; the curry used to flavor the marinade and sauce. Cape Malay refers to the descendants of Javanese and Malaysian slaves and indentured workers brought to Cape Town to work in shipbuilding and farming during