Tomato Bredie
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Heat the butter in a large saucepan and sauté the onions and garlic for about 5 minutes or until the onions are transparent. Add the meat and brown quickly on all sides. Add the salt, pepper and a little stock, water or wine and simmer, covered, for 90 to 120 minutes, or until the meat starts to get tender. Add the potatoes, tomatoes, sugar, thyme and marjoram and stew for a further hour. Serve with cooked rice
Heat the butter in a large saucepan and sauté the onions and garlic for about 5 minutes or until the onions are transparent. Add the meat and brown quickly on all sides. Add the salt, pepper and a little stock, water or wine and simmer, covered, for 90 to 120 minutes, or until the meat starts to get tender. Add the potatoes, tomatoes, sugar, thyme and marjoram and stew for a further hour. Serve with cooked rice
Introduction
Try this traditional South African recipe. A bredie is an old Cape name for a stew made of meat an vegetables. Use baby potatoes instead of big ones. And take your time - it just gets better
Try this traditional South African recipe. A bredie is an old Cape name for a stew made of meat an vegetables. Use baby potatoes instead of big ones. And take your time - it just gets better
Ingredients
Serves: 6
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- 25 millilitres butter (or margarine, lard or sunflower oil)
- 2 large onions (sliced)
- 1 clove garlic (crushed)
- 1½ kilograms stewing lamb (or mutton, cubed)
- 10 millilitres salt
- freshly ground pepper
- stock (a little)
- water (or wine)
- 500 grams potatoes (sliced)
- 1 kilogram tomatoes (mediu, skinned and chopped - or 3 cans of already peeled tomatoes)
- 5 millilitres white sugar
- 2 millilitres dried thyme
- 5 millilitres fresh marjoram (chopped)
- 1 fluid ounce butter (or margarine, lard or sunflower oil)
- 2 large onions (sliced)
- 1 clove garlic (crushed)
- 3⅓ pounds stewing lamb (or mutton, cubed)
- fluid ounce salt
- freshly ground pepper
- stock (a little)
- water (or wine)
- 17⅔ ounces potatoes (sliced)
- 2⅕ pounds tomatoes (mediu, skinned and chopped - or 3 cans of already peeled tomatoes)
- fluid ounce granulated sugar
- fluid ounce dried thyme
- fluid ounce fresh marjoram (chopped)
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