Carrot Bredie
November 2, 2012
About once a week or every other week we try to do date night. We love trying out new restaurants in the Houston area and of course going to our local favorites. Now our dates nights can consist of something low key like eating a burger somewhere or going to a nice place for steak and seafood.
Not too far from our neighborhood is a shopping center called Vintage Park. It has some amazing restaurants serving all types of different foods. Our favorite place is called Peli Peli which is South African Cuisine. The spices that they use in all of the dishes just make everything excel is taste. We went a couple of weeks ago and I had a side dish called carrots bredie paired with my steak.
I definitely had never heard of this but couldn’t wait to try it since I love vegetables. The side was just as good as my steak. Yes, that may be hard to believe when you are comparing steaks to vegetables and by no means am I putting down the steak because it was excellent. I asked the server what was in the carrot dish and the response was carrots, potatoes and cilantro. I knew I would be missing other components to this dish but decided to take a turn on creating it on my own.
Blending carrots and potatoes together now has my mind rolling with the endless possibilities of other great combinations!
ENJOY!
Carrot Bredie
Ingredients
- 3 qts water
- 6 oz. baby dutch yellow potatoes
- 3 cups carrots, grated or matchstix
- 1/4 cup chicken broth
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/8 tsp pepper
- 1/4 cup cilantro, chopped
Instructions
Bring the water to a boil.
Add the potatoes and let them cook for 10 minutes.
Then add carrots and let them cook with potatoes for an additional 15 minutes.
Drain and place in large bowl.
Add the chicken broth, salt, pepper and cilantro to the mix and puree. If you don’t have an immersion hand blender then place in food processor.
Texture should be creamy.
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This sounds intriguing! I love my veggies, so I really need to give this a try!
How interesting is that! I would be so intrigued to try a So. African restaurant. I’m going to bookmark the restaurant and hope that I can talk to “rest” into going…
If they don’t want to eat south african you can always come and visit me!
I’ve never heard of something like this before. So unique! What a creative Thanksgiving Day appetizer perhaps? Yummyyyy
Ahhhh date night.. How I miss thee… 😉
This sounds so good… have never heard of it, but would love to give it a taste!
Haha, I found your website while looking for recipes for carrot bredie after trying it at Peli Peli in Vintage Park! What a small world!
Also, the Peli Peli version has leeks, if you’re still curious about the other ingredients you’re missing.
Thanks Rachel that is good to know. I will have to add leeks to it next time. I really miss peli peli since we moved away from Tomball.
Haha, same here! Just tried Peli Peli for the first time last weekend and I really want to try to make this at home!
Hi, if you want to try something really amazing try adding about half of a yellow or white onion in there.
I am South African and this it how I make mine but I use regular water instead of broth and no cilantro. Will definitely try using the broth next time.
Great recipe. I added one sautéed leek per a comment and my husband loved it. I love the carrot bredie in the bobotie at Peli Peli / Chef’s Table.
Now I need a recipe for their prawn bisque!
Good article. Very informative, well balanced, unbiased.