Best South African Curry and Yellow Rice Potjie recipe. Two potjies over coals that keep the pot simmering made with mince beef and spices.
Curry and Yellow Rice Potjie
This recipe is great for a beginner to cook up on some coals with two potjie pots. One potjie will be for the curried beef mince and spices. The other potjie is for the yellow turmeric rice. A large meal for a family get together for lunch or dinner.
How do you thicken Potjie sauce?
Knorr soups are ideal for thickening and adding richness to all types of potjiekos. Fifteen minutes or so before your potjie is ready to serve, mix your soup powder with a little water to form a paste, then add it to the pot and simmer until the gravy thickens.
What is best to thicken curry?
Yes, curry is best thickened with cornstarch or arrowroot flour. Combine 1 tablespoon starch/ flour with 2-3 tablespoons water or curry sauce to make a slurry. Add to the pot and simmer for 2-3 minutes until thickened.
Why do you add sugar to curry?
A curry can be sweetened by adding honey, syrup, or sugar. These ingredients add flavour and balance to a sour or bitter curry. Add around one tablespoon of either ingredient to your curry while cooking and taste. Continue to slowly add syrup, honey, or sugar to the dish until a sweet flavour is achieved.
Ingredients
Below are images of some of the ingredients, that you would use according to the recipe below.
- ground minced beef
- rice
- chili pepper, turmeric, cumin, garam masala powder, ginger and salt and pepper
- onions and tomatoes and potato and garlic cloves
ground beef
white rice or brown
spices to use, chili pepper, turmeric, cumin, garam masala powder, ginger and salt and pepper etc
onions and tomatoes and potato and garlic cloves
They can cook simultaneously and keep the first one that’s finished aside with the lid on to wait for the next potjie to finish. Don’t even have to keep it warm on the coals. The cast iron pot keeps its heat well.
How to Make
You will have to first burn some wood or charcoal if that’s what you prefer to use. Letting them burn until they are well heated as coals. Scooping some aside and only using a few under the potjie for it to simmer on. As the coals burn out under the pot replace them with coals that are warm to finish simmering the potjie.
As well as keeping the lid on the pot and checking a few times that the food does not dry out.
Below is a dish filled with the turmeric raison filled rice for the curry potjie.
The curry beef potjie ingredients to plate up once all the food is cooked.
A plated dish of curry and rice served for a family of six.
Serve this meal with banana and a tomato salad. As they go well with curry meals.
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Curry and Yellow Rice Potjie
Best south african Curry and Yellow Rice Potjie recipe. Two potjies over coals that keep the pot simmering made with mince beef and spices.
- Prep Time: 15 min
- Cook Time: 60 min
- Total Time: 75 min
- Yield: 6 1x
- Category: Grill Braai and BBQ
- Method: potjie
- Cuisine: South african
Ingredients
For Beef curry
- 2 tablespoons of olive oil
- 1 chopped white onion
- 2 garlic cloves crushed
- 1 teaspoon of ground ginger (fresh or dried)
- 1 1/2 teaspoons turmeric
- 1 teaspoon ground coriander
- 1 teaspoon of ground cumin
- 1 teaspoon of garam masala
- pinch of salt and pepper to taste.
- You can add as optional a few drops of chili sauce
- 1 bay leaf
- 1 stick of cinnamon
- 500 g of ground beef minced
- 1/2 cup of Mrs Balls Chutney (or any other available chutney)
- 1 large chopped tomatoes
- 3 medium potatoes cubed
- 150 g mixed dried fruit
- Salt and pepper to taste
- 150 ml of melted beef stock cubes
for yellow rice
- 500 g of long grained rice ( 5 cups of warm water)
- 3 tablespoons of olive oil
- 1 copped onion
- 1 teaspoon of cumin
- couple of black pepper corns
- 3 bay leaves
- 1 teaspoon of turmeric
- 50 g of raisins
Instructions
- This recipe is for a two pot potjie, as you cook the rice in another pot and curry mince in one. So you can prepare both at the same time.
- For the curry mince potjie
- Add the olive oil to a warm potjie that is already on some coals. Add the onion garlic and ginger, sauté until golden. Then add all the spices and leave to simmer for a few minutes. (not letting it burn.)
- Add the ground minced beef, a little at a time breaking it up and stirring until it just starts to brown. Then add the chutney tomatoes potato’s and the dried fruit. The stock cube must be placed in boiling water and dissolved before adding to the potjie, then salt and pepper the pot.
- Leaving it to simmer for about 20 – 30 minutes with the lid on. (keeping the lid on is what potjie pot is about) Until the potato’s as well as the dried fruits are soft and cooked.
For the Yellow Rice potjie
- Add the olive oil to the pot and sauté up the onions until brown.
- Add all the spices for rice and the rice. Stir in the onions.
- Then add the raisons and salt and the hot water for the rice. leave to cook gently with the lid on for about 20 minutes. Watching the coal that they heat the potjie evenly and it keeps the potjie on an even heat. Add more water if needed.
- While doing both potjie pots at the same time don’t worry about the potjies having been cooked at different times as you leave the lid on the cast iron potjie and it will keep the ingredients warm. (no need to leave it over coals. it might burn)
- Enjoy plated up with some bananas as well as a salad of tomatoes.
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