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Quick 'n Dirty: Chicken and Apricot Potjie Recipe

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Here's a quick turnaround, no nonsense potjie recipe containing chicken and apricot (my personal favourite). This was whipped together in under 2 hours by co-conspirator, Darren Ogden, alongside the river in beautiful Tyolumnqa, Eastern Cape. Google "Tyolumnqa". If you can spell it. We're not even sure we can.

It really is the most tranquil out-of-the-way relaxing place to experience. Perfect potjie ground.

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Quick 'n Dirty: Chicken and Apricot Potjie

1.5 kg chicken off the bone
500 ml cream
2 table spoons apricot jam
2 handfuls mange trout (those funny flat bean things)
1 handful mini corn
1 punnet mushrooms
1 handful coriander
Garlic to taste
Ginger to taste
Lots of curry powder
Fresh chillies to taste


Ready? Brown the chicken in a bit of oil, chuck everything else in (mushrooms last), quick stir, lid on, leave for 2 hours. Done and dusted!

Chicken and Apricot Potjie Recipe

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Righto. Bloody time we started posting? Ain't it? Did a potjie the other day worth sharing. Some advice: you'll need about another 400ml of liquid - we used more chicken stock dissolved in hot water. Cooks in 80 minutes flat - quick, easy.

TASTE: 9/10. What a beaut. The apricots make it. Here it is, for your scoffing pleasure (sorry, no pics of this one!)... You can blame Mr Castle Lite for that!

 

Chicken Potjie

 

45 ml cooking oil 
1 kg chicken thighs 
10 ml salt 
4 bay leaves 
pinch of dried thyme 
4 black pepper corns 
pinch of ground allspice 
45 ml chutney 
500 ml carrots, peeled and sliced 
6 large potatoes, peeled and sliced 
500 g whole button mushrooms 
Half a packet dried apricots
125 ml boiling water 
1 chicken stock cube


Heat the oil in the pot. Sprinkle the thighs with salt and fry the chicken, a few pieces at a time, until golden brown. Add the herbs, spices and chutney. Arrange the carrots, potatoes and mushrooms in layers on top of the chicken. Add apricots. Dissolve the stock cube in the water and add it to the potjie. Replace the lid and simmer for approximately 1 hour and 20 minutes. Add water if the potjie becomes too dry.