
🇿🇦 South AfricaCatalog recipe · Durban
A hollowed half-loaf filled with Durban curry, the torn bread lid for dunking — street food engineering from the spice capital.
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Nothing to juggle — one thing at a time.
Searing needs a properly hot pan.
For 4 servings.
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Halve the loaves and hollow out the centers, saving the torn-out bread to use as lids.
Fry the onions with the cinnamon stick in a little oil until soft and starting to turn gold, about 5 minutes.
Stir in the ginger and garlic, then the curry powder; fry until fragrant and the oil turns red at the edges, about 2 minutes.
💡 Keep the pan moving here — curry powder scorches fast and turns bitter.
Add the chicken and sear on all sides until no longer pink on the outside.
Add the tomatoes and potatoes; cover and simmer 35 minutes, stirring occasionally, until the potatoes are tender and the curry has thickened around the edges.
💡 Bunny curry must be THICK — soupy curry breaches the bread and ruins lives.
Ladle the curry into the hollowed half-loaves, capping each with its torn-out 'virgin' bread lid.
Eat with your hands, dunking the bread as you excavate the curry inside.
Durban's Indian workers needed portable curry without cutlery; the bread bowl solved everything. Ordering is by fraction — a 'quarter mutton' — and eating with a fork remains illegal in spirit.
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