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- noun South Africa A
type ofstew .
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Indeed, the Malay-Portuguese words such as bobotie (a curried ground beef and egg custard dish), sosatie (kebabs marinated in a curry mixture) and bredie (slowly cooked stews rich in meat, tomatoes and spices) are integral in our cookery vocabulary.
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Indeed, the Malay-Portuguese words such as bobotie (a curried ground beef and egg custard dish), sosatie (kebabs marinated in a curry mixture) and bredie (slowly cooked stews rich in meat, tomatoes and spices) are integral in our cookery vocabulary.
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His wife was quiet, as always, tending to her bredie, or slow cooked stew, tonight made of succulent water lilies she had harvested from the pond and its fecund banks.
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This restaurant offers a buffet with a wide selection of traditional boerekos such as tomato bredie, chicken pie and a lavish carvery, as well as Malay curries and bobotie.
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"You need to go to the smaller restaurants where you can eat dishes like waterblommetjie bredie," said the ambassador, referring to a meat stewed with a plant called cape pondweed.
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South Africa itself is a rich stew, or bredie, as they call it in Afrikaans, the local Dutch polyglot.
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