Chicken and Noodle Potjie Recipe. The Best South African creamy chicken noodle mushroom and peppers, dry white wine, on fire and coals potjie.
Chicken and Noodle Potjie Recipe
Nothing better to sit around the fire with coals and chat with family and friends while your supper cooks slowly. This chicken noodle potjie made with dry white wine and some noodles with cheese finely sprinkled over the top once cooked. Any pasta of your choice will be fine.
The secret to a potjie is to have a good few coals that are ready to replace the ones that are finishing under the potjie. You need to keep the pot on a simmer, as it cooks for and hour and half about. Therefore you have to watch the coals and leave the pots lid on to steam cook over the coals.
The image below shows the coals under the potjie and some new wood burning to coals. That what you have to do. Replacing the coals to just keep the pot on simmer.
Should a potjie boil?
You should only hear a slight bubble like it is simmering. You should never hear it rapidly bubbling or even bubbling, as the potjie kos, pot is prepared to cook slowly and over a moderate heat, then you should adjust the coals to simmer. IE: take some coals away from under the pot.
What the rings on the potjie means?
The number of rings on your potjie pot multiplied by the size of the pot equals the number of servings it can make. For example the size 3 pot has 4 rings on the side, which means that it can hold up to 12 servings of your favorite potjie pot or potjie kos food.
How do you prepare a potjie for the first time?
- wash out with hot soapy water and steel wool, dry thoroughly.
- coat the inside of the cast iron pot with any type of cooking oil and heat until oil begins to smoke.
- allow to cool.
- wipe out with a paper towel.
- repeat until the paper towel comes out clean.
Ingredients.
The images below show you a few of the ingredients needed for this tasty chicken potjie pot.
- chicken
- tomato and bell peppers
- onions and mushrooms
- salt pepper and olive oil
- grated cheese
- broken pieces of pasta
- dry white wine
(follow the attached recipe for the exact ingredients and measurements)
Chicken breasts or other pieces.
Tomato and bell peppers.
Onion and mushrooms
Salt and pepper and olive oil.
Grated cheese.
Any broken pieces of pasta or noodle, or small pasta shells.
Dry white wine for the creamy slow cooked potjie over coals for a family dinner or lunch meal.
How To.
Please follow the recipe attached for the method of how to properly slow cook this potjie, step by step.
Simmering the chicken and noodle and vegetables with herb and spices slowly will make this amazing potjie just so delicious.
What is the difference between a potjie and a stew?
This “potjiekos” is a South African recipe that is traditionally Afrikaner. The difference is this food is cooked in a cast iron pot, that had three little legs to keep it over the coals of a medium heat. The food is layered in the potjie and is never stirred and is cooked slowly with the lid on. For a certain amount of time.
Why don’t you stir a potjie.
The food closer to the bottom of the pot is closer to the heat, and should take longer to cook. You never stir a potjie as it allows the flavor to stew with the lid on as well. The idea is to layer the ingredients in strategically. (longer cooking time ones first) You normally place the coals outside of the legs and leave the heat to do its magic to cook the potjie pot.
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PrintChicken and Noodle Potjie Recipe
Chicken and Noodle Potjie Recipe. Make a fire and collect coals for this chicken noodle mushroom and peppers potjie pot with dry white wine.
- Prep Time: 15 min
- Cook Time: 1 hr 20 min
- Total Time: 1 hr 35 min.
- Yield: 4 1x
- Category: Meals supper or lunch, Braai
- Method: open fire
- Cuisine: South african
Ingredients
- 8 Chicken Breasts
- 30 ml olive oil
- Salt and Pepper
- 4 cloves of garlic cut and chopped
- 2 celery sticks chopped
- 2 tomatoes sliced
- 1 green bell pepper cut length wise
- 250 g whole button mushrooms
- 250 ml spring onions chopped
- 15 ml of chopped parsley
- 2 teaspoons mixed herbs
- 500 g uncooked pasta shells (or noodles)
- 1 teaspoon of whole black pepper
- 1/2 teaspoon of dried rosemary
- 200 ml dry white wine
- 250 g grated cheese
Instructions
- On the fire made leave the wood or charcoals to go to hot coals.
- Place the oil in the potjie pot and salt and pepper the chicken pieces. Place the chicken pieces in the pot and leave to cook. until golden brown.
- Layer the vegetables as per order in the ingredients listed. Sprinkling the salt and pepper and herbs over the vegetables.
- Add the pasta shells and sprinkle the peppers and rosemary over them, before you pour the wine over the shells and the rest of the ingredients.
- Cover the pot with a lid and allow to simmer on medium coals for at least an hour.
- Once that is cooked sprinkle the cheese over and leave to simmer for another 20 minutes.
- Open and dish up for meal time. Serves 4
Notes
When making or cooking a potjie pot. It must only simmer on coals, and not flames. You will keep a stack of coals simmering to continue supplying the pot that is simmering once the other coals die out. Keep and eye on the coals and not the potjie. leave covered.
This Chicken and Noodle Potjie recipe looks absolutely delicious! I love the combination of flavors you described, and I can’t wait to try it out this weekend. Thanks for sharing such a hearty and comforting dish!