HEALTHY VEGETARIAN RECIPE: VEGETARIAN POTJIEKOS

Tasty veggie Potjiekos Recipe
Cooking: One hour
Servings: Five

Ingredients:
  • Six middle sized potatoes, peeled and diced
  • Four carrots, peeled and sliced up
  • One big onion, quartered
  • Two glasses of shredded cabbage
  • One leek, sliced up
  • A couple of turnips, peeled and cut
  • Green pepper, cut into big cubes
  • Two glasses of green beans, sliced up
  • Three celery sticks, cut
  • One glove of garlic, chopped up
  • Two tsp of cut parsley
  • Three tins chopped up tomatoes
  • One hundred ml water


How to prepare:

  1. You need a fireplace and a big iron pot in which the ingredients are cooked. 
    Layer the components in this order: potatoes, carrots, celery, green beans, turnips, yellow onion, pepper, cabbage and leek.
  2. Add some tinned tomatoes and also the water.
  3. Include salt, parsley and pepper.
  4. Cover up and cook slowly for about an hour until done.
  5. Serve with rice, noodles or couscous.

Potjiekos is really a 'friendly' dish since it is typically made over a wide open fire together with friends and family. 
The Vegetarian Potjiekos is also a very heart healthy recipe since it consists mostly of vegetables and water. 


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