Simple Chicken Potjie

Simple Chicken Potjie

We really love making potjie. It just tastes different to conventional oven cooking and braai. It’s kind of a combination between the two, I think. So, yesterday we made a whole chicken potjie, but apart from being super delicious, I have no clue what to call this. It uses very little ingredients, so that’s why I called it the Simple Chicken Potjie.

Ingredients

1 whole chicken

1 onion, chopped

1 punnet mushrooms, whole

50g butter

¼ cup olive oil

¼ cup sweet chillie sauce

1tbs balsamic vinegar

2t coarse salt

Pepper to taste

250ml cream

4tbs marmalade/apricot jam (optional)

Method

Place the chicken in the pot. Add the olive oil, sweet chillie sauce, balsamic vinegar and butter. 

Place on coals and let it cook. You want it to caramalize a little, but you don’t want it to burn. Check every half hour or so and turn the chicken around. 

Once the chicken is a lovely brown, add the salt, cream, onion and mushrooms and let it cook to let the flavours develop. You can taste the sauce and depending on how you like it, you can add the jam to break some of the caramalization taste. You can see that our chicken may have been a little over-caramalized... Funny thing, though, the little extra browning added just enough of a zing to be delicious with the jam!!

When everything is cooked, remove from heat and serve on rice. 

And enjoy!! We sure did – it was simply gobbled up!

Yours in oil and veggies

Risch