Cabbage Bredie
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Blanch the cabbage in boiling water for 5 minutes. Drain, rinse under cold water and set aside Heat the oil in a heavy-based saucepan and fry the onions along with the cumin seeds until glossy. Add the whole spices and meat. Brown the meat, add a little meat stock or water, cover and reduce the heat. Simmer until the meat is nearly tender. Add the potatoes, cabbage, leeks, celery and chilli and simmer until the potatoes are tender. Add more water or meat stock as required. Season to taste with salt and pepper and sprinkle the sugar on top. Serve with rice and chutney.
Blanch the cabbage in boiling water for 5 minutes. Drain, rinse under cold water and set aside Heat the oil in a heavy-based saucepan and fry the onions along with the cumin seeds until glossy. Add the whole spices and meat. Brown the meat, add a little meat stock or water, cover and reduce the heat. Simmer until the meat is nearly tender. Add the potatoes, cabbage, leeks, celery and chilli and simmer until the potatoes are tender. Add more water or meat stock as required. Season to taste with salt and pepper and sprinkle the sugar on top. Serve with rice and chutney.
Introduction
This is a traditional south african stew (bredie is the afrikaans word for stew). It was kindly posted for me by a fellow South African.
This is a traditional south african stew (bredie is the afrikaans word for stew). It was kindly posted for me by a fellow South African.
Ingredients
Serves: 6
Metric
Cups
- 1 cabbage (shredded)
- oil
- 2 large onions (sliced into rings)
- 10 millilitres cumin seeds
- 4 cloves
- 2 allspice
- 1 kilogram mutton (cubed)
- water (or stock)
- 2 leeks (well rinsed and sliced into rings)
- 1 stick celery (sliced into rings)
- 1 green chilli (seeded and chopped - optional)
- 8 baby potatoes (peeled)
- salt (to taste)
- freshly ground pepper (to taste)
- 5 millilitres caster sugar
- 1 cabbage (shredded)
- oil
- 2 large onions (sliced into rings)
- ⅓ fluid ounce cumin seeds
- 4 cloves
- 2 allspice
- 2⅕ pounds mutton (cubed)
- water (or stock)
- 2 leeks (well rinsed and sliced into rings)
- 1 stick celery (sliced into rings)
- 1 green chile (seeded and chopped - optional)
- 8 baby potatoes (peeled)
- salt (to taste)
- freshly ground pepper (to taste)
- ⅙ fluid ounce superfine sugar
Method
Cabbage Bredie is a community recipe submitted by samd and has not been tested by Nigella.com so we are not able to answer questions regarding this recipe.
Additional Information
Cooking time: 1-2 hours
Cooking time: 1-2 hours
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