Easy Biltong Pasta Potjie Recipe made with sour cream and cheddar cheese. Best ever south african creamy potjie meal cooked on coals.
Easy Biltong Pasta Potjie Recipe
Biltong or Jerky as Americans call it is a traditional south Africans meat snack. Then this traditional easy biltong and pasta with sour cream and vegetables potjie is a must to cook. A family meal for lunch or supper cooked on warm coals for a braai.
Like all potjie recipes you first have to make coals from wood burned or from charcoal heated to coals. Then you place the oiled potjie over some coals that would heat up the potjie to a simmer. (medium heat) Then start the cooking process. The secret of a potjie is that you cook it slowly with the lid on. Adding different ingredients at a time.
What is the difference between stew and potjiekos?
“Potjiekos”is a traditional South African Afrikaner stew that is cooked over a fire in a three-legged cast-iron pot.”The difference between a potjie”and a stew is that a potjie”is never stirred during the cooking process and is always cooked slowly over hot coals in a cast iron pan.
What are the layers of a potjie?
A “potjie” is made up of layers. The bottom layers is the meat, the middle layer the vegetables and the top layer the starch.
What is the difference between beef jerky and biltong?
Jerky is cut very thin and cooked on a rack at a low temperature to slowly dehydrate and cook the meat. While biltong is cured and marinated for 24 hours and then hung on hooks to air dry for up to a week. It is left in thicker pieces and left to dry out slowly before slicing to the desired size.
Ingredients
- biltong slices
- pasta shells
- sour cream
- garlic, mushrooms, onion, bell peppers
- mixed vegetables
- chicken stock
- tomato paste
- thyme
- grated cheese
View the recipe attached for the amounts and all the ingredients.
Biltong such as above.
Pasta shells of choice.
How To Make
Firstly as mentioned above that the coals should be ready to cook this potjie. Notice in the image below that the potjie is only placed on the coals. Yet this is to much already for a medium heat. Taking away some coals that leave only some small coals that are nearly ash will do for this recipe. As you are not cooking meat tender. Only the veggies and pasta.
An amazingly easy recipe to cook in a potjie. Making it a lunch or supper for a week end when all family is around the fire chatting. Nothing nicer than to sit around the fire and watch the food cooking. Having some snacks or drinks.
Once its cooked serve with some salad as this is a rich Italian type of dish that the pasta is cooked in cream and cheese. Bringing out the meaty taste of the biltong.
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Easy Biltong Pasta Potjie Recipe
Easy Biltong Pasta Potjie Recipe made with sour cream and cheddar cheese. Best ever south african creamy potjie meal cooked on coals.
- Prep Time: 15 min
- Cook Time: 1 hr
- Total Time: 1 hr 15 min
- Yield: 4 1x
- Category: easy
- Method: braai on coals
- Cuisine: South african
Ingredients
- 12 Onions chopped
- 2 cloves of crushed garlic
- 500 g of mushrooms
- 2 sprigs of Thyme
- 1 kg of biltong (not dry but with a bit of red meat in the middle)
- 1 kg of frozen mixed veggies. (or tin of corn kernels) optional
- 1.500 kg of pasta shells or twirls
- 2 red and green bell pepper sliced
- 5 cubes of chicken stock
- 750 ml sour cream
- 8 tablespoons of tomato paste
- 1 kg of cheddar grated cheese
Instructions
- Fry onion in the medium heated potjie over the coal with a little olive oil until tender.
- Add the garlic crushed and bell peppers and cook for about 5 minutes.
- Reduce your heat on the potjie pot. (take away some coals from under the potjie)
- Add the vegetables, Then place the pasta shells on top and then the sauce with the chicken stock cubes. Place the lid on and let it simmer for about 30 minutes.
- Then add the sour cream mushrooms and mix all together.
- The biltong and cheddar cheese can now be added to this mixture and mix all together. Then place the lid on the potjie and let it simmer on a low heat of ash coals for another 30 minutes.
- Serve and enjoy with salads or bread.
Notes
Serve with some cold side dishes that you can obtain HERE
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