Durban Lamb Curry Recipe and Mutton Bunny Chow
Durban Lamb Curry
Okay this curry needs quite a few ingredients, but then this curry is one of the few that you will make again and again. Hot and tomatoey it's favourite of mine but then lamb stew is too. I also make a Durban Chicken Curry click here.
Durban is the largest Indian city outside of India, Indians were shipped over as laborers to South Africa from the 1800's to work on sugarcane plantations. This group recreated curries they loved from home but slightly differently. This fusion of Indian, Malay and Dutch style of cooking is known as Cape Dutch or Cape Malay.
Bunny Chow - Durban Street Food
Durban lamb curry is also served like the above picture as Bunny Chow, so 'bunaai' was a not pleasant slang name for an immigrant Indian, and they were fed outside restaurants or cafes and the bowls and cutlery went missing, so the cafe owners began to serve curries inside hollowed out bread, with the bread that was taken out placed on top, this was handed out on newspaper. A quarter bunny is a quarter loaf.
This curry is usually served with a south African style salad as pic.
In a little hot oil fry
Fennel seeds 2tsp
Cinnamon Stick
1 Star anise
Then add
Onions fry till clear
Garlic 2 cloves
Bay leaves 2
Chillies fresh 3
Curry leaves if you have them
Deggie Mirch Chilli powder 1tsp
Ginger grated 1 tblsp
Turmeric 1tsp
Coriander 2tsp
Cumin 2tsp
Garam Masala 1tsp
Fry for another minute then add the diced lamb and brown a little for about five minutes.
Then add
Tom Puree and fry for a minute
Toms a tin
Add some water bring to a simmer for an hour
Then add
Pots and simmer for until cooked through.