Easy Food Recipes and Cooking - Bobotie
6 – 8 Portions
• 2 thick slices brown bread
• 375 ml milk
• 25 ml olive oil
• 10 ml butter
• 2 onions, finely chopped
• 3 garlic cloves, finely chopped
• 30 ml curry powder
• 15 ml apricot jam
• 30 ml chutney
• 25 ml malt vinegar
• 5 ml lemon juice
• 15 ml Worcestershire sauce
• 15 ml turmeric
• 1 kg lean beef mince
• 100 ml seedless raisins
• 100 ml almond shards
• 10 ml salt
• 3 eggs
• 8 small lemon or bay leaves
Preheat the oven to 180ºC. Break the bread into pieces and soak it in the milk. Heat the oil and butter in a pan. Sauté the onion and garlic until soft and translucent. Add the curry powder and jam and mix well. Add the chutney, vinegar, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce and half the turmeric. Squeeze the milk out of the bread, add the bread to the onion mixture and mix well. Keep the remaining milk to one side. Add mince, raisins, almond shards and salt. Mix well and fry over a low heat until the meat just starts to colour. Remove from the stove. Whisk 1 egg and add to the mince mixture. Pour into an oiled, ovenproof dish. Arrange bay or lemon leaves on top and press in slightly. Whisk 2 eggs with the remaining turmeric and milk. Slowly pour this over the bobotie. Place the dish inside another baking dish. Pour water around the dish in the baking dish until about two-thirds full. Bake for 1 hour. Serve with yellow rice with raisins.