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It's a simple style of cooking with no airs and graces, using everyday ingredients to produce wholesome one-pot meals. Most of the recipes are relatively simple, and a fair amount of them, such as the bredies, are based on traditional Cape cooking, while the use of ginger, garlic and spices relects the Malay and Indian influences.
The Pot
A three-legged cast-iron pot with a handle is the most suitable, although a flat-bottomed cast-iron pot with a tightly fitting lid can be used instead provided it is placed on bricks or a sturdy metal tripod over an open fire. Usually, though, a flat-bottomed pot is used for the making of bread since its shape makes the removal of the bread much easier.The book tells one about the fire, how to treat the pot, how to store your potjie a wonderful book on all you need to know about Potjiekos cooking. One thing I really would like to say though is that potjies should be cooked over a proper wood fire, and preferably not a fire made with any of the commercial charcoal products. Any kind of firewood can be used it does not affect the taste of the meat.
It is impossible for me to reproduce the whole book is these pages so I am going to link to some of my favourite recipes out of the book, but as you can see this will take sometime, so please keep returning to this index for the next recipe
Beef
Beef shin & three bean potjie Topside pot roast Oxtail with dumplings
Stuffed cabbage Potjie meat loaf Trip in Potjie Lamb
Denningvleis Mrs Brown's lamb curry Potjie tomato bredie Karoo potjie Pork
Pork & bean potjie Pork potjie with ginger sauce Quince & pork potjie Pork ribs with braai sauce Game
Hunter's pot Ostrich fillet with guince Venison shin in the pot Poultry
Duck & Pinapple potjie Spiced chicken with yoghurt Beatrice's chicken pot Duck or chicken with gooseberries & port Chutney chicken potjie Fish
Mussel potjie Cape Tuna potjie Fish, spinach & mushroom potjie Onion & Hake potjie Vegetables
Vegetable potjie with cheesy topping Instant bean potjie Stowepatats (braised sweet potatoes) Potjie roast potatoes Stywepap Stampkoring in the potjie Breads
The book has the most wonderful bread recipes, but I have covered bread in
the main index for breads click hereDesserts
Fruit potjie pudding Potjie pureed pumpkin Boer pudding Waterbul Vinegar pudding Delicious potjie pudding Banana vetkoek Campfire coffee with a kick
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