Seswaa (Botswana Beef Dish)
Seswaa, also known as chotlho, is Botswana's national dish, consisting of beef on the bone cooked in a slow cooker with bay leaves, salt, onion, and black pepper. Once the meat has cooked, it’s pounded with large wooden pestles and then served over pap.
Equipment
Cooking Pot
Ingredients
- 1 tbsp of salt
- 3 Bay leaves
- ½ tbsp of black pepper
- 2 Kilos of beef bone-in
- 2 cups of beef broth or water
Instructions
- Season the beef with salt and black pepper and leave it for 10 minutes.
- Transfer to a slow cooker, add the bay leaves, and cook the beef until tender. This will take about 1-2 hours.
- You’ll know the beef is ready if it falls off the bone after the cooking time. Other than that, leave it to slow cook for 30 more minutes.
- When the beef is tender, transfer it to a clean bowl and let it cool.
- Transfer to a mortar and pound with a pestle to shred it. Alternatively, you can use a fork to pull the meat apart to shred it.
- Transfer to a clean plate, and prepare pap to eat it with.
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Nutrition
Serving: 1gCalories: 310kcalCarbohydrates: 17.6gProtein: 34.6gFat: 10.9gSodium: 130mg