• Chicken, mushroom and biltong potjie

    There’s nothing like a potjie when you’re camping – it’s the perfect outdoors food. Just throw everything in the pot and let it simmer! This is a twist on the old favourite – chicken potjie – with the addition of biltong.

    Chicken, mushroom and biltong potjie

    South African
    Serves: 4
    Cooking Time: 1 hour

    There’s nothing like a potjie when you’re camping – it’s the perfect outdoors food. Just throw everything in the pot and let it simmer! This is a twist on the old favourite – chicken potjie – with the addition of biltong.

    Ingredients

    • 30 ml vegetable oil
    • 2 onions, peeled and finely chopped
    • 2 green peppers, deseeded and chopped
    • 2 large cloves of garlic, peeled and finely chopped
    • 8 pieces of free-range chicken
    • 100 g biltong dust
    • 5 ml fresh thyme
    • 2 large potatoes, peeled and diced into 1cm cubes
    • 500 g baby potatoes, skin on
    • 8 baby carrots
    • 500 ml chicken, beef or lamb stock
    • 500 g assorted mushrooms (a mixture of brown, button or portabello)
    • 250 g baby marrow, roughly chopped
    • 2 tablespoons mushroom soup powder or cornflour (optional)
    • Salt and pepper

    Instructions

    1

    Heat oil in a cast iron three-legged potjie.

    2

    Add onions, green peppers and garlic and cook until soft.

    3

    Add chicken pieces skin side down and brown the meat. Sprinkle the biltong dust and thyme over the chicken and stir to combine.

    4

    Add the diced potatoes, baby potatoes, carrots and stock to the potjie and simmer for 35 to 40 minutes.

    5

    Add the mushrooms and baby marrows and cook for 10 minutes.

    6

    To thicken the sauce, mix the mushroom soup or cornflour with a quarter cup of hot water and stir into the pot. Allow to cook for another 5 to 10 minutes.

    7

    Serve with rice or chunky slices of fresh white bread to mop up the sauce.

    Notes

    FOOD TEAM TIP: When cooking on coals try to have two fires burning, using one to cook food and the other to provide extra hot coals.

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