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Great news! You can now prepare ox tripe at home with zero effort and in a quarter of the time. How? With Woolworths' new slow-cooked ox tripe. The ox tripe is slow-cooked in a rich beef stock to ensure the best flavour, tenderness and succulence. All you have to do is heat and eat. Really, it's that simple. All the work has been done for you: cleaning, slow-cooking and seasoning. If you want to level up the ready-made ox tripe, you can add spices, legumes, veggies or a rich curry sauce. We recently asked the product and recipe developers at the Woolworths headquarters to share the many ways they serve ox tripe and their answers did not disappoint.

1. Sharon Mbonambi: Curried tripe

With 20 years of experience, Woolworths senior product developer Sharon Mbonambi is no stranger to the kitchen. For her, tripe invokes memories of her dad and growing up in Durban. She remembers how it was well-loved by all the children she used to play with in her street. The smell of the tripe cooking would get them excited about dinner, and once that happened, playtime was officially over. While ox tripe is traditionally cooked with salt, pepper and onions, Sharon puts a twist on her recipe. She adds a spoonful of apricot jam at the end to give it a sweet-savoury flavour. Whenever she's feeling nostalgic or wants to relive memories of her father, she cooks a pot of tripe to take her right back to those moments.

Get the recipe for curried tripe here.

2.  Clem Pedro: Tripe-and-butter bean curry

"Tripe has always been a special ingredient for me. It takes me back to my childhood every time I eat it or make it. It’s about the people I cooked it with, or the people I’ve had around the table when we shared this dish. Tripe has and will always be special to me, and having it in Woolies makes me so proud to have this piece of my culture shared with the rest of South Africa."

@wwtaste Tripe curry in under half an hour? You better believe it. Thanks to some clever additions, @clempedro.mancrave's hearty, perfectly cooked tripe-and-bean curry promises full-on flavour in half the cooking time. Search for ‘tripe-and-butter bean curry’ on taste.co.za or find the full recipe below. INGREDIENTS 3 T canola oil 2 onions, thinly sliced 10 curry leaves salt, to taste 70 g Woolworths garlic, ginger, turmeric and chilli pot 150 g tub Woolworths masala fresh paste 1 kg Woolworths slow cooked ox tripe 2 x 400 g butter beans, drained For the sambal: 1 red onion, thinly sliced 300 g cherry or rosa tomatoes, some halved and some quartered 1 T sugar ¾ cup brown or white spirit vinegar salt, to taste 10 g fresh coriander, roughly chopped Woolworths amagwinya, to serve COOKING INSTRUCTIONS 1. Heat oil in a pot or skillet set over a medium heat. Add onions, curry leaves and salt and cook until the onions soften and become translucent, taking on some colour but not browning too much. 2. Add garlic, ginger, turmeric and chilli, after about a minute the rawness of the garlic flavour should be cooked out. 3. Add the masala paste and stir the paste through the other ingredients. Cook for a minute while gently stirring, being careful to not burn the paste and aromatics. 4. Add just enough water to cover the ingredients and season lightly with salt, simmer until the water has reduced slightly before adding the prepared tripe and accompanying sauce. 5. Reduce the heat slightly and cook until the sauce reaches the desired thickness. Add the drained beans and cook for another 10 minutes to heat them, also allowing them to absorb the flavour of the curry. Taste and season if needed. 6. For the sambal, combine onions, tomatoes, sugar, vinegar and coriander, mixing until the sugar has dissolved. 7. Serve the tripe and bean curry with the sambal, freshly chopped coriander and steamed rice, or Woolies amagwinya. #knowafrica #africamonth #tripe #easyrecipes ♬ original sound - WWTaste

Get the recipe for tripe-and-butter bean curry here.

3. Marisa Munroe: Trotters, tripe and sugar bean curry

"There is a takeaway curry shop in Claremont, Cape Town that sells trotters-and-tripe curry on Thursdays, but sometimes a girl needs tripe on other days too!  This is an easy way to get your fix whenever the craving hits, without the hassle of cooking the tripe!"

Get the recipe for trotters, tripe and sugar bean curry here.

Photography & Videography: Sadiqah Assur-Ismail
Videography: Challenge Bobo
Production: Brita du Plessis
Food Assistant: Josh van Zyl

Woolworths Easy Meals allow you to enjoy all your favourite comfort meals without the hassle. Follow the easy instructions to tuck into classics such as tomato bredie, roast leg of lamb, ox tripe and winter warmers including Asian-style beef shortrib and coconut lamb curry. 

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