The Rohack is a popular dish in Namibia made with raw ground beef.
The meat can be slightly smoked and is served in brötchen rolls along with onions, pickled cucumbers, and pepper.
I accompanied it with yucca chips.
Namibia is a country in southwestern Africa. It is home to the Namib Desert, which lies along the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
This country is rich in wildlife and has a significant population of cheetahs, giraffes, and rhinos.
In Namibia, tourism flourishes, and the food revolves around tribal cuisine with European influences from German, Afrikaner, and English settlers.
As in the case of Rohack, which is reminiscent of the German Mett recipe, a preparation of raw minced pork seasoned with salt and black pepper often spread on half of a roll (Mettbrötchen), possibly topped with raw onion.
Find the recipe for steak tartare, the quintessential raw meat dish, on the blog:
- Difficulty: Very easy
- Cost: Cheap
- Preparation time: 5 Minutes
- Portions: 1 sandwich
- Cooking methods: No cooking
- Cuisine: African
Ingredients
- 1 roll
- 10.5 oz ground beef
- 2 pickled cucumbers
- 1/2 onion
- to taste salt and pepper
Steps
If you want, you can smoke the meat with a portable cold smoker.
Split the roll in half and spread raw minced meat on each half. Garnish with sliced onion and pickled cucumber.
Season with salt and pepper.
FAQ (Questions and Answers)
What is a Brötchen?
The literal meaning of Brötchen in English is essentially “small bread”.
“Brot” means bread in German, and sometimes the suffix “-chen” is added when you want to emphasize that you are talking about something smaller.
Brötchen – sometimes spelled as Brotchen in English since the German letter “ö” is not used – is basically just the German word for roll (flour, yeast, and water).What other sandwiches similar to Rohack, but with different names, can be found?
In southern Brazil, influenced by German immigrants, it is known as
Hackepeter or carne de Onça in
Curitiba where this dish is very common and served topped with chives.
