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  • noun South Africa A type of stew.

Etymologies

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Afrikaans, from Malagasy.

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Examples

  • 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.

    FIELD ROAST COOKBOOK STILL IN PROGRESS-- LATEST SUCCESSFUL EXPERIMENTS Bryanna Clark Grogan 2009

  • 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.

    Archive 2009-06-01 Bryanna Clark Grogan 2009

  • 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.

    Giants of the Bushveld 2008

  • 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.

    Muti 2010

  • "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.

    unknown title 2009

  • South Africa itself is a rich stew, or bredie, as they call it in Afrikaans, the local Dutch polyglot.

    unknown title 2009

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