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

Intense Red wine Stew

Considering yesterday's somewhat dull (to my taste, anyway) mince, today's meat stew is exactly the opposite: deep, rich flavours beckoning for you to eat more - taste more - just that one little bite more...

I served it with broccolli and cauliflower with a flourless cheese sauce and the tastes complimented each other beautifully!! The rest of my family enjoyed it with rice. For my carb-free diet, I am not allowed to eat the rice. But it was more than enough - filling, tasty, simply delicious!!

Ingredients

700g goulash  / soup meat
7 pickle onions
1 250g punnet mushrooms, whole
150g margarine
2tbs balsamic vinegar
3tbs soya sauce
3tbs sweet chilli sauce
3tbs chutney
1tb olive oil
3tbs sugar
500ml water
125ml red wine

Method

I used a cast iron pot on my gas stove. It works miracles.!! Melt the margarine in the pot. Add the whole onions and the whole mushrooms. 

 Fry. Add the meat. Fry a little. Mix the vinegar, soya sauce, sweet chilli sauce, chutney, olive oil and sugar in the 500ml water. Add to the meat. Cook with open lid. 

Reduce the sauce until almost gone. Remove from heat. Add the red wine. Let it stand until it you dish up.

These tastes absolutely complimented each other... on the one hand you had the sweet, sour and tangy sauce of the meat, and on the other the cheesy creamy sauce with the veggies. Delectable....

Your family is sure to love this meal. It is tasty and healthy and filling.... Did I mention fabulously tasty, spicey and wholesome? Do try this at home!!

Yours in oil and veggies

Risch