Roodt Meat Market

Roodepoort, South Africa

Family-owned butchery in Roodepoort, west of Johannesburg. Hugo and Siena Roodt took over in 2002, but the boerewors recipe is 95 years old. Their Watertand Boerewors has won six Cleaver Awards, including four Platinum. They grind everything in-house and refuse shortcuts. Also sell biltong, droewors, and fresh cuts.

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Sausages from Roodt Meat Market

Boerewors

Western Cape, South Africa

Boerewors (Afrikaans for 'farmer's sausage') is South Africa's most iconic sausage: a thick, coiled beef and pork sausage seasoned with coriander, cloves, and nutmeg. By law, it must contain at least 90% meat and no more than 30% fat. It is always cooked in its characteristic spiral shape over open coals at a braai (South African barbecue), never pricked, never straightened. Boerewors doubles as national ritual.

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