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All-in-one Pot Potjie Recipe


All-In-One Pot Potjie Recipe
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A "Potjie" is a 3 legged round bottomed cast iron pot, which simmers merrily over coals while everyone sits around it chatting away. and sipping you know what.. I am not sure if you can buy "Potjies" outside of South Africa, but... More

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Ingredients
  • 750g bolo or boneless chuck of beef
  • 1 pig's trotter
  • 30ml cooking oil
  • 2 onions, sliced
  • 10ml salt
  • freshly ground black pepper to taste
  • 200g uncooked pearl wheat
  • 4 tomatoes, peeled and coarsely chopped
  • 250ml dry white wine
  • 250ml meat stock
  • 2 leeks, sliced
  • 5 baby marrows, sliced

Directions
  1. Cut the bolo or chuck into cubes and saw the trotter into portions.
  2. Heat the cooking oil in a potjie and brown the meat.
  3. Add the onion and fry until it is translucent. Season with salt and pepper
  4. add the pearl wheat and tomatoes.
  5. Heat the wine and meat stock together in a small pan over the fire,
  6. then pour the liquid into the potjie and cover with the lid.
  7. Let the meat simmer over low coals for 3-4 hours, until it is tender.
  8. Layer the leeks and baby marrows on top and simmer for another 20 minutes.

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Comments


Nice one!! Nothing like potjiekos.


In the US a A "Potjie" closely resembles a camp Dutch Oven.


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