Chicken and Noodle Potjie Recipe
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
- Category: Meals supper or lunch, Braai
- Method: open fire
- Cuisine: South african
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 (or noodles)
- 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.