Hey everyone, it’s Louise, welcome to our recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, durban bunny chow. One of my favorites. This time, I am going to make it a little bit unique. This will be really delicious.
Bunny Chow has become one of Durban's most famous exports! It's usually called a 'bunny' and brings back youthful memories for many Durbanites who used to stop for a bunny chow on their way. Durban Mutton Curry in a bread loaf, the 'bunny chow' is a popular South African Street Food.
Durban bunny chow is one of the most favored of current trending meals on earth. It is enjoyed by millions every day. It’s easy, it’s quick, it tastes delicious. They are fine and they look fantastic. Durban bunny chow is something that I have loved my whole life.
To get started with this particular recipe, we must first prepare a few ingredients. You can have durban bunny chow using 18 ingredients and 7 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Durban bunny chow:
- Make ready 1 solid loaf white bread
- Take 1/2 star anise (chrushed)
- Get 3 cardamon pods
- Take 1/2 tsp fennel
- Prepare 1/2 tsp cumin seed
- Get 1/2 cup oil
- Take 1 onion, chopped
- Prepare 1 stick cinnamon stick(broken 3parts)
- Get 3 tbsp garam masala
- Prepare 1 tsp cayenne pepper
- Take 2 tsp turmeric
- Make ready 2 tomatoes(chopped)
- Prepare 1 kg beef stewing meat(cubes) or leg of lamb (also cubed)
- Prepare 4 clove garlic (peeled and chopped)
- Prepare 10 grams ginger(peeled and chopped)
- Get 6 leaves curry(crushed)
- Take 2 large potatoes (pealed and cubed)
- Take salt
Bunny chow, often referred to simply as a bunny, is a South African fast food dish consisting of a hollowed-out loaf of white bread filled with curry. It ultimately originated among Indian South Africans of Durban. For Durban, it's the famous bunny chow: half of a loaf of bread hollowed out and filled with one of a variety of tasty curries. These are five must-try bunny chow spots in Durban.
Instructions to make Durban bunny chow:
- Add oil, star anise, cardamom pods, cinnamon stick, fennel seeds, cumin seed and onion to a large pot and cook on stove top on medium heat until your onions become soft and translucent.
- Add the garam masala, cayene pepper and tumeric, cook untill ingredients start to stick.(~10min)
- Add tomatoes and mix so that the contents at the bottom of the pot unstick.
- Add the meat, ginger, garlic, salt and curry leaves. Reduce heat and simmer for half an hour.
- Add potatoes and a little water(~250ml water or till pot content is covered) cover and simmer until meat is tender (1-3 Hours)
- Cut your loaf in equal portion i.e half, quarter etc. With a knife hollow out the bread, leave a thick bottom and walls, spoon the curry inside the loaf, and serve with the cut out portion of bread. Viola! And enjoy!
- A few notes: 1.the heat level will be quite low, add a table spoon of chilli flakes or 2 chopped chillies to step 1 to increase heat, also you can add more cayenne pepper aswell as some hot sauce. 2. If you dont have the whole spice you can swap it out for the powdered version and vice versa, then add them at the appropriate step, whole spices step 1 and powdered spices step 2.
People from Durban are very proud of their Bunny Chow and its heritage - a cheap curry from the depression era. The version here is made with meat, but you can substitute with red and white kidney. BUNNY CHOW ISN'T for rabbits, and it isn't made from them either. It's a popular South African food The dish is a staple at lunch counters in Cape Town and Johannesburg. Bunny chow, a hollowed out bread bowl with a spicy, meaty curried filling, is as delightfully messy as it sounds.
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