This traditional and loved meal, a potjiekos is a classic staple South African dish, something we love doing, a dish cooked over a fire for hours while friends and family gather around the fire with a ...

Although load shedding has been downgraded to stage 4 and 5 for the weekend, planning your meals around these rolling blackouts can be exhausting. Luckily, you don’t need electricity to make this ...

Potjie, pronounced “potchee” or “poyke”, is one of my favorite meals and styles of cooking. Potjie literally translates as “small pot food” and is something we learned about from the large South ...

It was a hot, still Karoo day in January. The big bird on the kitchen table needed special attention. I decided it was headed for the potjie, with butter and rosemary. It turned out to be the best ...

It’s cold, it’s the weekend, and nothing beats a good potjie bubbling over the coals while you wait with a drink in hand. Whether you’re cooking for the crew or making sure Monday’s sorted on the ...

I’ve been experimenting with roasting meat in a potjie since early lockdown. This one is more of a pot roast, with sun dried tomatoes and little pickling onions, a handful of sweet spices and my old ...

For the potjie, heat a splash of oil in a 23cm flat-bottomed cast-iron potjie over medium-hot coals and fry the chicken for about 5 minutes or until browned all over. Season with salt and pepper. Stir ...

You'llneed your coals at medium heat for this dish. Once ready, get the potjie pot upto temperature before adding your ingredients. A potjie pot builds up heat andonce it's too hot it's hard to reduce ...