Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Idi Amin’s Favourite Exeter Stew

Preparation info
    • Difficulty

      Easy

Appears in
top 1000The Settler's Cookbook
The Settler's Cookbook

By Yasmin Alibhai-Brown

Published 2009

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Ingredients

  • 2 lb mutton with bones in or goat meat (there had to be many bones, otherwise Amin threw a fit)
  • 2 oz flour

Method

  • Boil the meat in 4 pints of water with salt and vinegar.
  • Fry onions in fat until brown, stir in flour, and add this to the boiling meat together with chopped turnips.
  • Cook for two hours until the sauce is thick and the meat tender.