Potjie No: 3
Serves: 6 – 8
Cooking Time: 2.5 hours
Ingredients
30ml butter
250ml dry red wine
2 kg of mixed meat (shank, neck, rib etc)
50ml chutney
2 medium-sized onions, diced
50ml tomato sauce
20 baby potatoes, peeled
50ml worcester sauce
1 kg frozen mixed vegetables
30ml Maizena
3 medium sized sweet-potatoes, sliced
30ml oxtail soup powder
Salt & pepper to taste
25ml soya sauce
Sauce
15ml Bisto
500ml warm water
10ml garlic flakes
2 cubes of beef stock
0.6ml fine ‘kruinaeltjies’
10 ml dried oreganum and rosemary
5 ml grated lemon peel
Method
Smear the pot well with the butter and heat the pot until it is very hot.
Then brown a few pieces of meat at a time and remove.
The meat has now cooked out its own fat.
Brown the onions in the meat’s fat until soft.
Return the meat to the pot and layer the potatoes and sweet potatoes on top of the meat.
Mix all the ingredients of the sauce and pour over the food in the pot.
Add salt and pepper to taste.
Finally, cover with the lid and allow to simmer for approximately 2.5 hours.
Add the mixed vegetables after 1 hour.