Bunny Chow – South African street food

by Nina Timm 

Bunny Chow with Lamb Curry

Ingredients:

• 2 white loaves of bread – halved(big appetites) or quartered(smaller appetites). 
• 1 kg mutton – neck or knuckles (or beef cubes)
• 1 Tbs curry powder
• 1 thumb size piece root ginger
• 2 cloves garlic
• 1 tsp turmeric
• 1 stick cinnamon
• 1 star anise
• 1 medium onion, chopped.
• 1 red pepper, diced
• 2 Tbs vegetable oil.
• 2 cups vegetable or mutton stock
• 2 Tbs tomato paste
• salt and pepper to taste

How to:
In a big cast iron pot, saute onion, garlic and all spices in oil.
Add meat and brown.
Add stock and put lid on.
Simmer until meat is tender. Add potatoes and cook until done.

Now make the following sauce...
Ingredients:

• 1 level Tbs flour
• 1 tsp curry powder
• 3 Tbs chutney
• 3 Tbs good Tomato ketchup
• 3 Tbs vinegar
• 3 Tbs apricot jam

How to:Stir sauce into stew and cook through. Add seasoning to taste. Now hollow out the quarter or half loaf, leaving some bread at the base. Spread the inside lavishly with butter and fill to the brim with hot spicy curry.