About this dish
A slow-cooked stew of meat and vegetables, often mutton and tomato, simmered until deeply flavorful.
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Ingredients
🥩800g mutton or lamb, cubed
🍅4 tomatoes, chopped
🧅2 onions, chopped
🥔3 potatoes, chunked
🌰1 tsp allspice
Method
Serves 31
Brown the meat with onion.2
Add tomato and allspice, and simmer covered over low heat for about 1.5 hours.3
Add potatoes and continue cooking until the meat is very tender and the sauce has thickened.4
Season with salt and pepper.5
Serve with rice.✓ What Makes it Authentic
Bredie is a traditional South African stew, with Cape Malay culinary roots, historically slow-cooked over many hours to tenderize tougher cuts of meat.
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