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Chef of the Year 2012: Gallery

Sunday Times Chef of the Year Rudi Liebenberg created a 6-course fine dining experience, accompanied by paired wines from Haute Cabriere Wine Estate, at the Planet Restaurant, Mount Nelson Hotel in Cape Town. Images: Louise McAuliffe

Rudi's traditional Salad Niçoise

Rudi Liebenberg gives a traditional salad the searing treatment

RUDI'S 'I' is for Irish Stew

Rudi Liebenberg has a plan for St Patrick's Day next Sunday

RUDI'S gelatine fruit delights

This week, Rudi Liebenberg shakes things up a bit with fruit

Soup lady - liquid assets at the Jozi Food Market

Tracy Lipschitz stands over a gargantuan pot of oxtail and butterbean soup, stirring the soft chunks of meat in the mixture with her right hand.

Reader Recipe: Makeshift pizza

You could win R500 by sending us your recipe, which we will test and photograph.

Dorah's Dinners: Malawi's Treasure

This week Dorah Sitole cooks freshwater fish on the banks of a great lake

Main Course: The Big Spread

Hilary Biller take three old friends on a journey way beyond the sandwich

The Restaurant: Braai Ranch

Relaxed, good value, delicious food: reasons why Shelley Seid keeps going back to the Braai Ranch

Featured Recipes

Chocolate pomegranate slab with pistachio nuts

INGREDIENTS

Sweet Endings: Lemon Drizzle Cake

Hilary Biller turns lemons into the loaf of your life

Dorah Sitole's green mangoe and chicken surprise

Dorah Sitole uses green mangoes to make an Arabian-African treat

Honey roasted butternut, onion and red pepper quinoa salad

INGREDIENTS

Main Course: Midsummer Dreams

SIMPLE RECIPES FROM DONNA HAY'S ULTRA-COOL BOOK OF EASY DINNERS

Dorah's Dinners: Peri-Urban

Continuing her food journey around southern Africa, Dorah Sitole makes a spicy pit stop in Mozambique

How to make: Cauli Cottage

And you thought you couldn't make a great pie without spuds

How to make salads with no sign of lettuce

A fresh and lively trio of Asian salads, with not an iceberg in sight

Dorah's Dinners: Namibia

This week Dorah Sitole visits the Herero and discovers the juicy omajova mushroom

Dorah's Dinners: Chuck in more chilli

Food legend Dorah Sithole says chakalaka has become an integral part of our cuisine, a fairly new arrival that made its debut in the 1970s.

RUMBLINGS

Rumblings: Maltabella

Guest voice Andrea Burgener entices us with rich dark sorghum porridge that could be the new superfood

Rumblings: Karoo Cachet

GUEST VOICE: Lin Sampson said it's an arid landscape with fresh lamb that has become a byword for free-rang desirability.

The rise of McSushi

Guest voice Andrea Burgener thinks that SUSHI will be the food of choice at many a summer party.

Rumblings: May contain nuts

GUEST VOICE: Sue de Groot

Rumblings: Atomic fusion

GUEST VOICES: Keith Tamkei

Rumblings: Jane-Anne Hobbs

Sneaky but healthy ways to satisfy bottomless appetites

Rumblings: Eat the pavement

Matt Allison joins the visionary foragers who see edibles wherever they go

Videos

Video: Chef of the Year Wrap

See all of the chefs in action over the three day event.

Video: Young Chef of the Year 2012

See action in the kitchen as the young chefs competed for the coveted title.

Video: Junior Chef of the Year

Who will win Junior Chef of the Year 2012?

Chef of the Year 2012 Overview

VIDEO: Judges and contestants give their thoughts on the seventh annual Sunday Times Chef of the Year in association with Foodcorp

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