Potjie!

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So for my birthday I got some cast Iron. The crate it came in from Germany said "Dutch Oven" on the side so I knew that I was getting that when I took the delivery. Which was just in time to tease a saffer friend that I had a potjie (poy-kee) and he didn't. When opening it I got a frying pan, sauce pan and a lump of steel flatplate one side and griddle the other. I don't want to even think what she paid for it but it's from BBQ Bull if anyone thinks it may interest them.

So currently my plans extend to cooking some oil on it all to season and starting to try bread. Does anyone have any good recipes for sides though that would go nice in the potjie while I smoke meat or what/how would you be using a cast frying pan/saucepan?

Flat plate for breakfast obviously! Oh and come winter Potjie stews/soups (Stoups) for all!

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Potjie 's are perfect for making proper chili over a fire.

I mainly use the flat side of my cast iron griddle for making American pancakes and the ribbed side for steaks and veggies.

I also make savoury spicy sweetcorn pancakes, which always go down a treat

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Being an Ulsterman Scotch Pancakes are part of a fry!

http://appleandspice.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/spicy-sweetcorn-pancakes.html Would this sort of thing be thon sweetcorn pancakes?

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Exactly like that, but I use regular flour and put in freshly chopped chillies & garlic.

Dunk those puppies in BBQ sauce and get chomping

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Technically - a Potjie is a three legged pot with a round bottom.



These days, though you get all sorts of Potjies - flat bottomed ones etc.. they still call them potjies. Potjie-kos is a bit of a Afrikaaner tradition. Back in the old days of the Great Trek these cooking vessels were used daily to cook meals in the bush. They were treasured items, brought from back home in the Netherlands and other European countries they were fleeing persecution from, and again in Southern Africa where they were fleeing from the British in the Cape.

The legs help keep the vessel off of the ground for a low-and slow cook. There are a fair few Potjiekos recipes around - just google 'potjiekos' which literally translated means "small pot of food" - but in reality you can get potjies large enough for a human to bathe in

If you have a flat one, you can get little stands (I have a few) to keep them up too.

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Yeah mine came with the stand.