Breedie Zimbabwe Food

TOMATO BREDIE

Steps:

• Heat oil over medium-high heat in a large, heavy-bottomed saucepan. Dredge meat in flour, and cook in hot oil until well browned.
• Stir in onions, and cook until onions are soft, about 5 minutes. Mix in tomatoes. Season with salt, black pepper, white peppercorns, bay leaves, brown sugar, vinegar, Worcestershire sauce, and beef bouillon cube. Cover, reduce heat, and simmer for 1 1/4 hours. Stir occasionally, making sure nothing sticks on the bottom of the pot.
• Stir in the potatoes and cook for an additional 45 minutes, until the potatoes are done and the meat is tender.

BREEDIE ZIMBABWE

Steps:

• Stew the meat gently until tender.
• Brown the onions in the dripping.
• Peel and slice the tomatoes.
• Add all the ingredients except meat to the onions and cook gently until a thick sauce is obtained.
• Stir in the meat.
• Serve with peas, rice and mango chutney.

BOEREWORS AND TOMATO BREDIE

Steps:

• One day ahead: In a large bowl, combine the beef, pork, coriander, salt, pepper, cloves, nutmeg, and allspice. Mix until combined. Cover, and marinate in the refrigerator overnight.
• On the day of serving: Grind the meat mixture in a meat grinder. Add the fatback and vinegar to the meat and mix well. Stuff the meat into sausage casing, if using, or else form the mixture into sausage patties. In a skillet set over medium-high heat, cook the boerewors until browned.
• Serve the boerewors with the Tomato Bredie.
• Heat the oil in a large saute pan set over medium heat, and saute the onions until they're transparent. Add the pork and cook until brown. Add the tomatoes, potatoes, and chile to taste. Cook, stirring occasionally, until the potatoes are tender and the tomato liquid is almost gone, about 20 minutes.

CABBAGE BREDIE (STEW)

Steps:

• NOTE: IF USING CABBAGE OMIT WATER OR USE SPARINGLY SO POT DOES NOT BURN AS CABBAGE DRAWS A LOT OF WATER.
• Heat oil in heavy casserole or soup pot. Add cloves, peppercorns, and allspice. Once it starts sizzling add onions. Brown your onions nicely (my mom always said that if you brown the onions to a nice golden colour you will have a better tasting and looking bredie; not browning the onions nicely will give you a grey colour bredie which we don't want).
• Add meat and simmer slowly till meat is done and well browned.
• Add salt, chillies, ginger and garlic paste and sugar and half cup water. Bring to a boil and simmer for about 10 minutes until flavours are well blended.
• Add your cabbage/ cauliflower and potatoes and cook until vegetables are soft about 20 minutes. Use the remaining water only if you find that it is necessary, (the pot is becoming dry).
• Sprinkle with nutmeg before serving.
• Serve with white rice and sambals and atjar. Cucumber and onion sambal goes well with this dish.
• Peel cucumber grate it then put 5ml salt and let it sit for 10-15 minutes. Squeeze moisture out. Add some slice onion, 1 green chilie chopped, 5ml sugar and 30 ml vinegar. Good with hot curries.

ZIMBABWE COOKIES

Steps:

• 1.
• Cream together butter and sugar in bowl. Blend in lemon zest, nutmeg, honey and egg. Fold in sweet potato.
• 2.
• In separate bowl. sift flour, baking powder, baking soda and salt.
• 3.
• Add it to the first mixture and blend well.
• 4.
• Arrange cookie dough by rounded teaspoons on un-greased or wax-papered cookie sheet.
• 5.
• Bake at 350 degrees for 7 minutes.
• 6.
• To make glaze: Use wooden spoon or whisk to combine all ingredients in glass container until smooth.
• 7.
• Add more water by the drop until glaze is easy to spread on cooled cookies.

NHOPI-CORN MEAL WITH PUMPKIN (ZIMBABWE)

Steps:

• Bring the water to a boil in a good-sized saucepan and put in the corn meal. Cook, stirring frequently, until it forms a porridge.
• Next, stir in the mashed pumpkin. Then add the sugar, peanut butter and salt and combine all ingredients well.
• Continue to cook for a few minutes over low heat, adding about ½ cup of the retained pumpkin cooking water if necessary to make the consistency you prefer. Serve immediately with spinach or another leafy green.

GREEN BEANS (LUBI) & MEAT STEW

Steps:

• boil the meat in 3-4 cups of water first and remove the scum that appears on the water surface.
• add to it a cinnamon stick, 1/2 onion, salt to taste.
• when the meat is half done, remove the onion and cinnamon stick from the water.
• Fry the onions and garlic in some oil separately until they are yellow in color and add them to the meat and water mixture.
• Add to the above mixture the tomatoes and green beans and add the above spices and adjust the salt to your taste. ( to prepare green beans the end of the beans should be removed and they should be cut in half)
• If water is not covering all the green beans, add more water and adjust salt if needed.
• let the mixture boil for around 45 minutes until the green beans are completely cooked i.e. they are very soft.
• serve with rice.