PORK BUNNY CHOW
Download RecipeHave you ever had a curry in a sandwich? It’s not quite as bonkers as it seems. The bread soaks up all the delicious spices. Bunny Chow is a delicious Durban icon. It created during apartheid for Indian labourers, who were brought to work in Natal’s sugarcane fields. The word ‘bunny’ comes from ‘bania’, the caste of the Indian businessmen who sold the curry, while ‘chow’ is, of course, slang for ‘food’. The most popular dish at the times was roti and beans. But the roti (a thin wheat naan) fell apart, so creative proprietors began using loaves of bread as take-out containers, scooping them out and filling them with the bean curry.
Ingredients
1kg Pork shoulder (diced)
2 Spanish onions (diced)
750g Tomatoes (tinned)
1 Potato (peeled & diced)
1 Sweet potato (diced)
400g Pumpkin (peeled & diced)
50g Fresh coriander
1 Green chilli (chopped)
1 Cinnamon stick
1tsp Fennel seeds (lightly crushed)
1 Bay leaf
1tsp Turmeric
5 Cardamom seeds
4 Cloves of garlic (crushed)
2tbsp Garam masala
50ml Malt vinegar
4 Crusty cob rolls
Salt and pepper to taste
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