Bunny chow is a popular South African street food that’s finding its way onto menus internationally as well as becoming a popular street food in places such as the U.K. It’s essentially a giant loaf of bread or baguette hollowed out and stuffed with whatever you want. While gourmet versions exists, the great thing about bunny chow is how versatile it is — how open to infinite variety — in your own home kitchen. It’s like a handheld chili bread bowl and the ultimate comfort food. Here are 10 delicious ways to stuff bunny chow.
Vegetable Curry
If you’re not a meat eater, the garbanzo beans in this recipe can add the chunky texture that meat normally would, and the bread tastes delicious when it sops up the sweet-and-spicy curry. The curry is filled with great vegetables like cabbage, butter beans, eggplant, potatoes and green beans.
This recipe is Southern African fusion. Instead of the traditional bread loaf, it uses a big corn bread muffin and stuffs it with chorizo, great spices like yellow mustard, chili powder and cayenne pepper, some delicious tomato chutney to moisten everything, and spicy chorizo sauce. It’s served with sliced, grilled hot dogs.
This recipe is perfect for the summer when you’re craving something lighter than red meat in bunny chow. We love that the chicken is left in large chunks, and the unique ingredients such as sunflower oil make everything slightly sweet, while the Greek yogurt makes the curry slightly creamy.
Need creative ways to use leftover turkey? Cut it up in cubes, smother it in a creamy, zesty ginger-masala sauce, and stuff it in a hefty, rustic loaf of bread. Like this recipe did. Yum.
Need a fun way to serve your dinner rolls? These mini bunny chows are cocktail-sized bread rolls stuffed with a sweet chili-type filling of white beans, pineapple or mango chutney, coconut, carrots and apples.
Don’t be put off by the flavor combination. The peanut butter and beef are married by an incredible spice mix — it’s too long to list here but as a teaser there’s cilantro, chutney, cinnamon and turmeric, to name a few. It’s a delicious and dynamic flavor, and tastes great with hearty bread.
Tender, smoky short ribs and rustic, fluffy-but-flaky chunks of bread are a natural duo. So a bunny chow stuffed with a spicy-jalapeno Worcestershire sauce-smothered short rib is perfection.
Chakalaka is a delicious hot-and-spicy sauce, and with creamy white beans, it tastes delicious with salty sardines. You might want to eat this with a sourdough loaf.
If you’re having an I-eat-what-I-want-type of a day, whip yourself up this: a hollowed-out loaf of bread stuffed with giant steak-cut fries, topped with sliced cheese and a chunk of pepperoni. Then take a nap.
We can’t track down the exact recipe for this masterpiece, but it had to be included. We know the base of it is a creamy mushroom sauce and, of course, tons of seafood. We’re guessing if you mixed some clam chowder with sautéed mushrooms and steamed oysters, you’d get something pretty close.