This potjie was amazing! I bought my potjie pot 2 weeks ago and decided to do this recipe for it’s initiation. This was the first ever potjie I made and it turned out BRILLIANT! I used cream of chicken soup and oxtail soup, and my dog stole the bacon when I wasn’t looking but it still turned out amazing! My girlfriend and her family loved it and went for seconds! – Clinton

Potjie No: 3 Pot guide
Serves: 4 – 6
Cooking Time: 1.5 hours
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Ingredients

6 chicken breasts
250g rindless bacon, cubed
10 baby potatoes, peeled
12 baby onions, peeled
750ml frozen mixed vegetables
4 medium onions, diced
300g mushrooms, sliced
60ml smooth apricot jam
Cooking oil
100ml water
15ml worcester sauce
500ml fresh cream or 250ml Cream + 250ml milk
Chicken spice to taste
Aromat to taste
1 packet of oxtail soup
1 packet of onion soup

Method

• Spice the chicken with the chicken spice.
• Heat the oil in the pot and braai the bacon for about 5 minutes.
• Add the onions and apricot jam and braai until soft.
• Now add the chicken, water and worcester sauce, cover with the lid and allow it to simmer for about 15 minutes.
• Add the onions and potatoes and allow the pot to simmer for a further 10 minutes.
• Next add the veggies and the mushrooms.
• Sprinkle a little Aromat over the pot, cover with the lid and allow to simmer for 30 minutes.
• Mix the soup powder with the cream and add it to the pot. Cover and allow it to simmer for a final 30 minutes.

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Made this yesterday. Amazing recipe! Made it a little spicier by doubling the ginger and garlic, and added 2 fresh chili’s. Also made it using Kabeljou(layer 1), Prawns(Layer 2) and Crab(Layer 3)- Pritesh

Potjie No: 3 Pot guide
Serves: 6 – 8
Cooking Time: 1.5 hours
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Ingredients

15 ml brown sugar
15 ml sweet soy sauce
30 ml fresh basil, roughly chopped
30 ml fresh parsley, roughly chopped
1 kg fresh white fish, filleted, or frozen hake steaks
500 g fresh or frozen prawns, shelled and cleaned
1 kg frozen marinara mix
2 lemons (juice only)
250 ml thick cream
10 mussels in their shells
20 ml olive oil
30 ml butter
2 large onions
10 ml garlic, crushed
10 ml ginger, freshly, grated
20 ml seafood spices
250 g fresh black mushrooms, sliced
410 g Mexican tomatoes
375 ml fish stock
125 ml sherry

Method

• In a large potjie, heat together the oil and butter.
• Add the onions, garlic, ginger and seafood spices and fry for 2 minutes.
• Add the mushrooms, tomatoes, fish stock, sherry, sugar and soy sauce and simmer gently for 15-20 minutes.
• Add the basil and half the parsley, then remove three quarters of this mixture from the pot and layer it, alternating with the seafood.
• Start with the white fish, then the prawns, then the marinara mix.
• Add the lemon juice, secure the lid and allow to simmer for 20 to 30 minutes without stirring.
• Just before serving, add the cream, mussels and the remaining parsley and heat through for about 5 minutes.
• Serve with white rice and a green salad.

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Potjie No: 4 Pot guide
Serves: 6 – 8
Cooking Time: 1.5 hours
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Ingredients

2 tbsp butter
8 medium shallots, whole peeled
5 whole garlic cloves, crushed
300 grams streaky bacon, cut thick
Sprig of fresh thyme
500 grams button mushrooms, whole
4 carrots peeled and cut into thick slices
2 cups good Bourgogne red wine (Pinot Noir)
2 cups chicken stock
2 tbsp balsamic vinegar
8 pieces chicken on the bone
Parsley
Salt and Pepper to taste

Method

• Heat Potjie.
• Add butter and bacon.
• Brown bacon on medium heat until brown.
• Remove bacon and set aside.
• Keep bacon fat in Potjie.
• Brown chicken and shallots in bacon and butter fat. Half way through add garlic and add salt and pepper.
• Add chicken stock, wine, herbs, vinegar, carrots and potatoes. Add the bacon back to Potjie.
• Cover and simmer for 45 minutes until chicken is tender and cooked through.
• Remove solids from Potjie.
• Add mushrooms to remaining liquid, boil quickly and reduce liquid by 3/4 until it becomes a nice thick sauce.
• Reduce heat and return solids to Potjie.
• Reheat solids and coat with sauce.v
• Garnish with parsley and serve.
• Serve with mashed potatoes or a fresh French baguette and a nice Pinot Noir wine.

Thanks Stu!

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Thanks for the recipe – everyone enjoyed it! – Caleb

Flat-bottomed Potjie No: 4 Pot guide
Serves: 6
Preparation time: 45 minutes
Cooking Time: 30 minutes
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Ingredients

DOUGH
110 g salted butter
500 ml cake flour
10 ml baking powder
70 ml full cream milk
2 jumbo eggs
Apricot jam
2 ml salt

SYRUP
30 g salted butter
380 ml water (boiling)
260 ml white sugar

Method

DOUGH
TIP: You can create the dough yourself, or buy it ready-made from your local supermarket if you’re pressed for time.

• Combine the cake flour, baking powder and salt, then rub small pieces of the butter lightly into the dry ingredients.
• Whisk the full cream milk and jumbo eggs together, add to the dry mixture, then mix to make a dough.
• Keep the dough in the fridge for half an hour, then roll it out to a thickness of about half a centimetre all over.
• Spread the rolled-out dough lightly with smooth apricot jam.

SYRUP
You first need to create the syrup in your potjie pot, into which you will place the rolled-up dough

• Add the sugar and the boiling water to the potjie pot and stir over a low heat until all the sugar has dissolved.
• Simmer on a low heat for 2 – 3 minutes before stirring in the 30g of butter.

FINISHING TOUCHES

• Roll up the dough (spread with jam) and place it gently and carefully into the lightly simmering syrup in the potjie pot.
• Cover with the lid of the potjie and let the dough simmer slowly for about 30 minutes or until it is ready.
• Serve with custard and enjoy.

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Potjie No: 4 Pot guide
Serves: 6
Cooking Time: 2 hours
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Ingredients

1 kg bolo, shin or neck
15 ml cooking oil
5 ml salt
Freshly ground black pepper to taste
1 clove garlic (crushed)
2 onions (coarsely chopped)
3 carrots (sliced)
300 g cauliflower florets
4 baby marrows (sliced)
15 ml brown sugar
100 ml orange juice
125 ml grated cheddar cheese

Method

• Cube or slice meat.
• Heat oil in potjie and brown meat, then season with salt and pepper.
• Add garlic and onion and saute until onion is transparent.
• Add vegetables, brown sugar and orange juice.
• Cover and simmer for 1.5-2 hours or until meat is tender.
• Just before serving, sprinkle with grated cheese.
• Serve with baked potatoes.

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My husband and I had a Potjie Competition past weekend, we took 1st place out of 4 pots…We adjusted the ingredients a bit to our preferences. Overall a very nice pot.. – Twana

Potjie No: 3 Pot guide
Serves: 6
Cooking Time: 2 hours
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Ingredients

15ml cake flour
5ml mixed herbs
5ml paprika
375ml beer
1kg beef fillet, cubed
250ml beef stock
15ml butter
1 packet of tomato soup powder
15ml oil
1 bay leaf
2 medium onions, thinly sliced
15ml vinegar
15ml white sugar
10ml Maizena
8 green beans, cut up
Salt and pepper to taste
4 carrots, peeled and thinly sliced
1 garlic clove, chopped

Method

• Coat the meat with a mixture of the flour and paprika.
• Heat the oil and butter in the pot and brown the meat.
• Remove the meat and brown the onions and sugar until the onions is nice and soft.
• Add the beans, carrots and garlic, cover with the lid and allow the pot to simmer for about 5 minutes.
• Replace the meat and stir in the herbs, beer, beef stock, soup powder and bay leaf.
• Cover with the lid and allow the pot to simmer for a final hour or until the meat is soft (stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon).
• Mix the vinegar and cornflour and stir in.
• Simmer until the gravy has thickened and season with salt and pepper.

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My nephew made this recipe on our trip to Goudini Spa. It was really nice. Thanks for the recipe – Jacky

Potjie No: 1/2 & 2 and Flat-bottomed Potjie No: 3 Pot guide
Serves: 6
Cooking Time: 1.5 hours
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Ingredients

Cooking oil to brown meat
8 neck of lamb slices, 15 mm thick
8 lamb knuckles, 15 mm thick
8 pork knuckles, 15 mm thick
8 small onions
10 ml salt
Meat stock
8 carrots, each cut into 3 pieces
3 large potatoes, cubed
24 young green beans, halved
6 baby marrows, each cut into 3 pieces
250 g button mushrooms
2 large onions, finely chopped
6 large ripe tomatoes, skinned and diced
2 – 3 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
2 – 3 drops Tabasco sauce
15 ml soy sauce
15 ml Worcestershire sauce
Freshly ground black pepper to taste
1 stalk celery, cut into 5 mm pieces
Coarsely chopped fresh parsley

Method

• Heat a little oil in the potjie, add neck and brown on all sides.
• Remove and arrange in the centre of a flat-bottomed potjie.
• Repeat this with the lamb and pork knuckles, placing the lamb in a circle around the neck, then the pork knuckles around the outside edge.
• Place whole small onions on top and sprinkle with salt.
• Pour in hot meat stock to almost cover meat.
• Arrange vegetables on top in layers: carrots, potatoes, then green beans.
• Cover with lid and allow to simmer.
• As soon as the potato is almost soft, arrange a layer of baby marrow and then a layer of mushrooms on top.
• Simmer for about 10 minutes.
• Braise onion and tomato in smaller potjie.
• Add remaining ingredients, except parsley.
• Simmer for 15 minutes.
• Spoon over vegetables in flat-bottomed potjie and allow to simmer through.
• Sprinkle with parsley and serve.

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Potjie No: 3 Pot guide
Serves: 8
Cooking Time: 30 minutes
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Ingredients

3 onions (chopped)
1 pack of fresh mushrooms
1 pack of bacon (chopped)
1 pack of Frankfurters (chopped)
1 pack of cheese-griller sausages (chopped)
720 g sliced biltong
1 packet of pasta (screws)
1 packet of mushroom flavoured rice
1 packet of Spanish flavoured rice
250 g grated cheese

Method

• Braise onions and mushrooms in oil and flavoured salt.
• Add bacon and sautè for 2 minutes then add the sausages.
• Sautè for a further 5 minutes.
• Add pasta and rice and one kettle boiling water.
• Close the pot and allow to cook for 20 minutes.
• Then add the biltong, return the lid and let it steam for 5 minutes.
• Remove the lid and stir.
• Ensure that it does not dry out.
• Sprinkle the cheese on top, let it stand for 5 minutes and serve.

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Ingredients

1 kg thin flank (cubed)
30 ml cooking oil
1 onion (chopped)
1 clove garlic (crushed)
1 x 410g can tomatoes (coarsely chopped)
10 ml salt
Freshly ground back pepper to taste
30 ml chopped fresh basil or 10 ml dried
150 ml hanepoot or white muscadel wine
30 ml lemon juice
15 ml cake flour
30 ml chopped fresh parsley or 10 ml dried

Method

• Heat oil and brown meat.
• Add onion and garlic and saute until golden brown and transparent.
• Add tomatoes, salt, pepper and basil.
• Heat wine and add.
• Season with lemon juice.
• Cover potjie with lid and allow to simmer for 1.5-2 hours or until meat is tender.
• Mix flour with a little cold water to form a paste.
• Add to meat.
• Simmer for a few minutes to thicken.
• Just before serving, sprinkle with parsley and serve with rice.

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Potjie No: 3 Pot guide
Serves: 4
Cooking Time: 2 hours
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Ingredients

1 kg mutton shank, sawn into slices
15 ml cooking oil
250 g onions, sliced
Salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
500 ml meat stock
500 g potatoes, sliced
250 g green beans
250 g baby marrows, whole if small, otherwise sliced
250 g mushrooms, whole if small, sliced if large
4 spring onions
250 g tomatoes, skinned and chopped
5 ml chopped fresh oregano or 2 ml dried
Pinch of ground cloves
1 ml paprika
15 ml fresh rosemary or 5 ml dried

Method

• Brown shank in heated oil.
• Add onion and sauté until transparent.
• Season meat with salt and pepper.
• Pour heated stock over.
• Arrange vegetables on top of meat in the following order: potatoes, green beans, baby marrows, mushrooms and spring onions.
• Spoon tomato on top of vegetables.
• Sprinkle with oregano, cloves, paprika and rosemary.
• Cover with lid and simmer for 1.5 – 2 hours or until meat and vegetables are tender.
• Do not stir during cooking process.
• Before serving, stir carefully making sure the meat and vegetables do not break up.

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