madebyjade

To serve 6 people with plenty left for you tomorrow:

1kg stewing beef, cut into cubes of roughly 3cmx3cm
2 large onions
50 grams butter
Good pinch salt (about ½t)
1 heaped tablespoon sweet Hungarian paprika (keep an eye out for it at delis)
2 x cans whole tomatoes
300g baby potatoes

Put on your oven on 170 degrees Celsius. In a heavy pot (that can go in the oven, for example a potjie) melt the butter and then add the onions and beef. Let it fry for about 5 minutes, so that the onions turn an even, golden colour. Use your spoon to get a look at the juices at the bottom of the pan, oozing with deliciousness! Next add the salt and paprika, and mix thoroughly. Your stew will now turn a light golden and orange colour, which is all good. Add the tomatoes and half a tomato can of water in the pot. Pop that all in the oven, with a lid on. Leave it in there 1 ½ hours, stirring every now-and-then. This done, chop in half the potatoes and add, with another half a tomato tin of water. Place it back in the oven and forget about it for another 45 minutes. After this, check if your potatoes are soft by inserting a knife in the middle of a potato, if it slides in and out easily is ready. Now eat! With mash potatoes or fluffy basmati rice or just like that. Today or tomorrow.