Ragout of Cold Duck or Turkey (Malay or Cape Dish)
Origin: Cape Town, South Africa
Source: Hildagonda J. Duckitt, 1891
Ingredients
- Cold duck, turkey, or chicken
- Bones
- Cayenne pepper
- Mustard
- Tomato sauce
- 1 large Onion
- Fat or butter
- A little Brown flour
Instructions
- Cut up the remains of cold duck, turkey, or chicken.
- Make a little stock from the bones.
- Cut a large onion into small pieces.
- Fry the onion in boiling fat or butter (or 'smoor,' as they say in Dutch).
- Mix the fried onion with the stock.
- Thicken the stock with a little brown flour.
- Flavour the mixture with cayenne pepper, mustard, and tomato sauce.
- When the mixture is boiling, add your pieces of cold poultry.
- Let the poultry be slightly browned in the mixture.
- Pour the savoury mixture over the poultry.
- Simmer the whole for a quarter of an hour till thoroughly warm.