Tomato Bredie
Traditional dish with vegetable oil, lamb, cake flour.
- prep 9 min
- cook 21 min
- total 30 min
- serves 4
- intermediate
Ingredients
- 1 tablespoon vegetable oil
- 3½ pounds lamb
- 2 tablespoons cake flour
- 1 large onion
- 2¼ pounds tomatoes
- 1 tablespoon white vinegar
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 beef bouillon cube
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon brown sugar
- 6 whole white peppercorns
- ½ teaspoon ground black pepper
- 1 dash worcestershire sauce
Steps
- Heat the oil in a large, heavy-bottomed saucepan.
- Dredge the lamb in flour.
- Shake off the excess.
- Then cook the lamb in the hot oil until brown.
- Pour the lamb onto a plate, and reserve the drippings in the pan.
- Cook and stir the onion in the drippings until soft, about 5 minutes.
- Then mix in the tomatoes.
- Return the lamb chops to the saucepan.
- Season with the bay leaves, salt, brown sugar, black pepper, Worcestershire sauce, white peppercorns and bouillon.
- Cover, reduce the heat, and simmer for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
- Stir occasionally so it does not stick to the bottom of the pan.
- Stir in the potatoes.
- Continue cooking until the potatoes are cooked and the meat is tender, about 45 minutes more.
Adapted from “Tomato Bredie”, Wikibooks Cookbook, CC BY-SA 4.0. This adaptation is shared under the same licence.