Chicken and Noodle Potjie Recipe. Make a fire and collect coals for this chicken noodle mushroom and peppers potjie pot with dry white wine.
Chicken and Noodle Potjie Recipe
Nothing better to sit around the fire with coals and chat with family and friends while your supper cooks slowly. This chicken noodle pot made with dry white wine and some noodles with cheese finely sprinkled over the top once cooked.
The secret to a potjie is to have a good few coals that are ready to replace the ones that are finishing under the potjie. You need to keep the pot on a simmer, as it cooks for and hour and half about. Therefore you have to watch the coals and leave the pots lid on to steam cook over the coals.
The image below shows the coals under the potjie and some new wood burning to coals. That what you have to do. Replacing the coals to just keep the pot on simmer.
Simmering the chicken and noodle and vegetables with herb and spices slowly will make this amazing potjie just so delicious.
Below is the recipe.
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Chicken and Noodle Potjie Recipe. Make a fire and collect coals for this chicken noodle mushroom and peppers potjie pot with dry white wine.
- Prep Time: 15 min
- Cook Time: 1 hr 20 min
- Total Time: 1 hr 35 min.
- Yield: 4
Ingredients
8 Chicken Breasts
30 ml olive oil
Salt and Pepper
4 cloves of garlic cut and chopped
2 celery sticks chopped
2 tomatoes sliced
1 green bell pepper cut length wise
250 g whole button mushrooms
250 ml spring onions chopped
15 ml of chopped parsley
2 teaspoons mixed herbs
500 g uncooked pasta shells
1 teaspoon of whole black pepper
1/2 teaspoon of dried rosemary
200 ml dry white wine
250 g grated cheese
Instructions
On the fire made leave the wood or charcoals to go to hot coals.
Place the oil in the potjie pot and salt and pepper the chicken pieces. Place the chicken pieces in the pot and leave to cook. until golden brown.
Layer the vegetables as per order in the ingredients listed. Sprinkling the salt and pepper and herbs over the vegetables.
Add the pasta shells and sprinkle the peppers and rosemary over them, before you pour the wine over the shells and the rest of the ingredients.
Cover the pot with a lid and allow to simmer on medium coals for at least an hour.
Once that is cooked sprinkle the cheese over and leave to simmer for another 20 minutes.
Open and dish up for meal time. Serves 4
Notes
When making or cooking a potjie pot. It must only simmer on coals, and not flames. You will keep a stack of coals simmering to continue supplying the pot that is simmering once the other coals die out. Keep and eye on the coals and not the potjie. leave covered.
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