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About Potjiekos
Potjiekos (literally meaning pot food) has been part of South Africa’s culture for many centuries. Since the days of the first settlement at the Cape when food was cooked in a black cast-iron potjie pot hanging from a chain over the kitchen fire. Later the black pot accompanied the pioneers who moved into the country.
The re-emergence of potjie in the late 1970’s coincided with the increase in meat prices at the time. It was then that food magazines and books started publishing articles on potjiekos cooking and potjie recipes.
Origins
It is believed that the potjie came from the Dutch ancestors of the South Africans, who brought with them heavy iron cooking pots which hung from hooks over the open hearth. These cast-iron pots retained heat well and could be kept simmering over a few embers. Rounded, potbellied pots were used for cooking tender roasts and stews as they allowed steam to circulate instead of escape through the lid. The flat-bottomed iron pans heated more quickly and were used to bake crusty loaves of bread in Dutch ovens.
What sets potjiekos apart from these traditional cooking methods, is the fact that it is cooked outside. When the pot was moved from the kitchen hearth to a fire in the open bush, it became a potjie and part of the South African cooking heritage. The most common potjie is the rounded, potbellied, three-legged cast iron pot.
Enjoy!
Potjiekos is uniquely South African, and is a friendly food, to be enjoyed by rich or poor, young and old, city-dwellers and country folk. It needs only your imagination when it comes to selecting the ingredients. Potjiekos is traditionally made around an open fire, preferably in the company of good friends, with one or more Potjies simmering away.
We’ve already won our first potjie competition with a recipe from this book thanks, it’s great.
Love this book , bought 3 of them and gifted friends that re over the moon. I just love it!
Die boek bevat genoeg resepte om my ‘n leeftyd besig te hou. Dis baie lekker kos.
awesome recipes and the book arrived the next day nogal
Great to have the recipes offline in a book for when we go to the bush.