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How to prepare this unique South African dish called Mutton Bunny Chow
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Mutton Bunny Chow
- Prep Time: 15 minutes
- Cook Time: 1 hour 10 minutes
- Total Time: 1 hour 25 minutes
- Yield: 4 servings, depending on size 1x
- Category: Everyday Cooking
- Cuisine: South African
Description
Mutton curry in bread, BUT we call it bunnies!
Once your curry is done, cut up unsliced bread into quarters. You need to make a hole in the bread by taking out the centerpiece, and place curry into the empty loaf.
Mutton curry with a step by step guide for you, I really hope this helps whoever would like to try it out.
Ingredients
Scale
- 1 kg mutton
- 3 potatoes, cut up
- 2 tomatoes, chopped
- 2 onions, chopped
- 1 tsp turmeric
- 3 tsp Kashmiri masala
- 1 tsp any other masala
- 1 tsp jeera powder
- Salt
- 3 cloves
- 3 cardamom pods/Elachi
- 1 cinnamon stick
- 3 Bay leaves
- 1 tsp ginger and garlic paste
- Peas, optional
- Loaf of white bread
Instructions
- Fry onion in oil
- Add cardamom, cloves, cinnamon, bay leaves
- Cook for 2 minutes
- Add turmeric and masalas
- Add ginger and garlic paste
- Add tomatoes
- Cook for 2 minutes
- Add mutton and salt
- Cook for 15 minutes
- Then add 1/4 cup hot water
- This you will only add when there’s very little water left
- Cook for 50 minutes
- Keep adding hot water every now and then add the potatoes.
- Cook until potatoes are done
- Enjoy
Notes
Prepared, tried, and tested by Jennifer from The Recipe Hunter: Tried and Tested Recipes from Home Chefs and SA Tasty Recipes – Saffas Daily Recipes
Nutrition
- Serving Size: 1
- Calories: 1440
- Sugar: 19
- Sodium: 1316
- Fat: 60
- Saturated Fat: 24
- Unsaturated Fat: 31
- Trans Fat: 0
- Carbohydrates: 137
- Fiber: 13
- Protein: 85
- Cholesterol: 243
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Mutton is not common in our neighbourhood but now I will actively seek it and make this dish. Thanks Esme for sharing at the Pit Stop
Hi Julie – Hope you will find mutton and try this out and let us know how it turned out. As you know its a super traditional SA dish and loved by many.