Monday, June 22, 2009

butternut bredie

bredie is the sa word for stew. this is 100% pure winter food...


heat a dash of olive oil in a large saucepan and sauté 2 large sliced onions and 2 cloves of crushed garlic until soft. add 1kg stewing lamb and brown over high heat.

mix 3 tablespoons of marmite with 300ml boiling water and add to the saucepan. cover and simmer gently for 1½ hours.

add 300g baby potatoes, 2kg diced butternut, 1 teaspoon ground ginger, 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon and 2 teaspoons brown sugar. continue to simmer for a further hour or until meat is tender.

mix 2 tablespoons of flour with cold water and stir through the bredie. simmer for a further 10 minutes until the sauce has thickened to your liking, adding salt and freshly ground pepper to taste.

serve with rice. yummy…

5 comments:

laughingwolf said...

nice, but please omit the MARMITE, all i've heard about it makes me shudder :(

Stella Jones said...

mmmm that sounds wonderful. I love winter food. That's something I've struggled with, while in the southern United States. I can't get used to all the salads and outside foods.
Blessings, Star

Caio Fern said...

you know , i read your recepies and suffer .... i amgoing to try some of then , i am vegan but i don't care .
about the marmite , do you believe that is impossible to find it here? and the first time i taste it was in a hostel and a australian girl gave me a litle bit for taste at the breakfest . i loved , but was the only time i tasted .
it is incredible how very small things of the every day culture makes two pearsons live in totaly diferent worlds .
that's what i love in art , sentiments put us all together and still develops individuality .

Cynthia Pittmann said...

I like the spice combination you use for the butternut. I think I will try it for another type of squash we have here in Puerto Rico, calebasine, which is not the real or English name...I think it is a local name for a quick growing zucchini-only one that was allowed to mature into a harder yellow squash.

Thank you for coming over to Oasis Writing Link (OWL) blog. I hope we get to know each other better. Do you write in this blog or your other one more often? <3

Deb said...

Hi ~ what a fantastic surprise to find out that you have a recipe blog! I am currently growing butternut squash in my garden so I am going to try this although I am not sure about the Marmite - I have never had that and am not sure if they sell it here in New Hampshire. I will have to search for that. I am always searching for new recipes - I love cooking and sharing meals with my family and friends - enjoy!