African Chop

I want to step on over here to the other pot and start getting it ready

And like I said, this dish is called African Chop. Now I'm going to start with just beef stew meat

You can buy this nice beef stew meat in the meat department at your local grocery store

Now I'm going to start by just salting this a little bit. And I'm using a nice kosher salt

So we're just going to put our salty beef over into our Dutch oven

And you can see that I'm using a Dutch oven that has legs on it

And the reason for that is so they can sit around over a fire

All right, now to our beef, we're going to add some beef bouillon cubes to help just richen up that broth

And chili flakes. That's going to give it just a little spice

Chili powder. And curry powder. All right, and to this, I'm going to add four cups of water

I'm going to just give that a quick stir. I'm going to put the lid on it

I'm going to use a tripod and hang this Dutch oven over the fire

and I'm going to let it cook for about an hour. So if y follow me on over here we gonna get our meat on that tripod so it can get to cooking Paul let me give you a hand with that love Oh gosh thank you DJ

Good enough. You know, I love cast iron, but that's the one drawback

Mighty heavy. It's heavy as lead. Oh, good, you're gonna put that on the tripod for us

Absolutely. Oh, perfect. There we go. All right, now we're gonna let that cook for one hour

I couldn't have done this without DJ. Thanks so much, DJ. I've got my African chop in there

just waiting on the rest of the ingredients. All right, now I'm going to come over here to our

skillet, and I'm going to saute some bacon into our hot skillet, and I'm just going to

nip it with the scissors. Alright, let's check on our bacon. I think most of the

fats rendered out of that and hopefully I'm gonna try not to eat that bacon so I

can throw it in the pot too. Alright, now I'm gonna throw in our onions and then

I'm gonna put in our collard greens. So you can see that this meal is gonna be

real good and healthy It going to have your vegetables in it It going to have your meat This is going to be out of this world How pretty is that And we gonna add these collards and onions to our beef pot

Now to finish up our African chop, I'm gonna add tomato puree

Give that a quick stir so you can see the pretty colors that looks delicious

Now, we're doing one thing different to this dish that wasn't in the original recipe

And as you probably know, African cooking, a lot of nuts are used in African cooking

So to give this dish just a little bit of a twist, we're going to add some chunky peanut butter to it

I just want to make sure that my peanut butter is incorporated real good in this pot, and

then if I can find DJ, I'm going to put it back on the fire for another hour

All right, so I've got that peanut butter blended in there real good, and I want you

to say let's just go ahead and put that bacon back in here too, and that way I won't have

to worry about standing up here and eating it. All right, I gotta give it a quick taste

before I get it back on the fire It unbelievable what that peanut butter did to this dish DJ Right here Paula

Do you mind helping me? This has got to go back on the fire for another hour

Okay, so we're going to take it back over to the fire then? Uh-huh. All righty

And I get your... And back on the tripod to hang up

It's so nice to have a man around the house. Indeed. You know what I mean, girls

All right. All right, I've got our African chop ready to taste

All right, now, I brought some rice that I'd cooked at home because I didn't really want to have to fool with cooking rice out here

But I did transfer it to a pot, so I'm really, really anxious to taste this dish

I think it'll be just out of sight on this white rice

Look at that texture of that, and that's from that peanut butter

Looks so good. All right, let's see what we've got. This is just delicious