South African Farmer’s Sausage

Boerewors

Preparation info
  • Serves

    6 to 8

    • Difficulty

      Complex

Appears in
Planet Barbecue

By Steven Raichlen

Published 2010

  • About

If there is one dish that symbolizes South African braai more than all others, surely it’s the coarsely ground, richly spiced, supremely succulent beef sausage known as boerewors (farmer’s sausage). No braai—South African barbecue—is complete without it. Many families own hand-cranked meat grinders for making the sausage from scratch, and rare is the butcher shop that does not have a stainless-steel sausage stuffer (it looks like a horizontal metal cylinder) for filling