Serves: 6-8
Prep time: 15 minutes
Coastal Pantry: Bokkoms With A Story
Occasion: Easy weekday, Effortless entertaining, Braai dish
Ingredients
Bokkoms With A Story from the Coastal Pantry
1 tub of smooth cottage cheese
1 clove of garlic, minced
juice and zest of 1 lemon
6-8 large, ripe tomatoes
3 tbsp of olive oil
2 tbsp of chopped chives
2 spring onions, thinly sliced
large handful of basil leaves
salt & pepper to taste
Method
- Remove two Bokkoms from the bunch and pick the dried meat from the bone.
- Cut the tomatoes into bite-sized pieces and place in a bowl.
- Add the two shredded bokkoms, olive oil, pepper, chives and spring onions. Mix well and leave to marinate while preparing the cottage cheese.
- Place the cottage cheese in a bowl and add the garlic, lemon zest and lemon juice. Mix well.
- Place a serious dollop of cream cheese on each plate and spread it out with the back of a spoon.
- Mix the basil into the salad and divide it between the plates, placing the salad on the cream cheese.
- Add salt to taste, remembering the bokkoms are salty.
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