A colossal mixture of food on one plate is Johannesburg’s comfort dish.

Imagine all your favorite things on one plate. For me, that’s sweet butternut mash, a spicy chakalaka (vegetable relish), umnqusho (slowly cooked dried corn kernel sometimes prepared with sugar beans), creamed spinach, and tenderized cubes of lamb or beef in a hearty stew, topped with a perfectly braised T-bone or deep-fried, golden piece of chicken

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