Fathers Day - Ox Tail Potjie

Braai (Barbecue) boerewors (Sausage) Beer and Rugby, that's South African way of relaxing and an excuse to celebrate a special occasion.
Well! being Fathers day yesterday; and it being a beautiful sunny day, we had a "Ox Tail Potjie" the chef being my son in law Eric.
We had a wonderful day with family, being careful of cause with covid-19 rearing it's ugly head.
While the boys went for a surf in the sea at Umhlanga, Eric prepared the Potjie, a "Potjie" is one of our traditional out door entertainments. It is a stew cooked in a three legged cast iron pot out doors, it originated with our fore-fathers the Voortrekkers and has been passed down from generation to generation. Each one having their own unique way of cooking the food, there are many different recipes for the potjie, like fish or chicken or even baking bread in it. The number of rings on the pot equal by the size of the pot, for example , the size 3 pot has 4 rings on the outside, therefore it can hold 12 servings of your home made favorite food.
Ox tail takes around five hours to cook over a well checked fire, so a lot of chatter and drinking beer goes on for almost the whole day, a lovely time to catch up on family gossip. Lol.

Lovely plate of Ox Tail Potjie and white rice

INGREDIENTS

• 2kg Ox tail meat
• 500grm packet rashers of bacon
• 2 large onions
• 1 tablespoon crushed garlic
• 1 Tablespoon tomato puree
• 1 packet onion soup
• 8 Carrots
• 12 small potatoes
• Salt and Pepper to taste

Potatoes and carrots in bowl of water waiting to be used.

Wood fire for Potjie

Heat oil in pot

Fry the onions and garlic in oil until almost brown

Add the bacon rashers then the Ox Tail on top of bacon brown the meat slowly on both sides

Brown onion soup and tomato puree or paste mixed with 500ml of water

Pour sauce into pot with oxtail and bacon let it simmer for around 3 hours until meat almost falls off the bone, keeping an eye on the fire so meat doesn't burn.

Chop carrots, leave potatoes whole

Add the carrots and potatoes to meat

Replace the lid and simmer on fire for another 2 hours watching it constantly

Arlo keeping watch by the fire

Three generations having a bonding moment

Tyler my grandson checking the Potjie

Ready to serve with rice

Lovely rich Ox Tail Potjie enjoyed by all
That was Fathers Day at my daughter and son in law Eric's home in Umhlanga Rocks north of Durban South Africa. Thankyou for giving me the opportunity to share my South African traditional Dish "Ox Tail Potjie". I hope you enjoyed it as much as I loved eating it.

Happy Fathers Day to all my Hivian dads, hope you had a wonderful day.

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