Category: Beef

2 cup Dried sugar beans, soaked overnight

2 cup Samp,*Note, soaked overnight

500 g Shin bones

1 Onion, chopped

1 Green pepper, chopped

2 Tomatoes, chopped

Salt and pepper

1/2 cup Butter milk

Note* If you don't know samp, it is dried whole white corn (Mielies).



Cook the beans and samp in salted water in a large pot.



Brown the meat and the onions, add the salt pepper and a little water to cover. Simmer for 1 - 2 hours until almost done. Add the tomatoes and green pepper and simmer until the meat is tender.



Mix together with the samp and add buttermilk. Heat the dish and serve



NOTES : This dish is a favourite of the Xhosa community. Various types of beans are combined. Recipe by: Egoli Posted to EAT-L Digest 06 Mar 97 by Pam Knowles <pamk@IAFRICA.COM> on Mar 7, 1997