Hey everyone, hope you are having an incredible day today. Today, I will show you a way to prepare a special dish, bobotie. One of my favorites. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.
While the bobotie bakes, whisk together the reserved milk, egg, and a pinch of salt. Pour over top of the dish. Lay the bay leaf onto the top of the milk mixture.
Bobotie is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s simple, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It is enjoyed by millions every day. They are nice and they look fantastic. Bobotie is something that I have loved my whole life.
To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can cook bobotie using 19 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Bobotie:
- Take 1 kg beef mince
- Make ready 5 ml salt
- Prepare 2 ml pepper
- Take 3 onions, chopped
- Prepare 3 garlic cloves, chopped
- Prepare 45 ml oil
- Get 15 ml vinegar
- Prepare 125 ml apricot jam
- Make ready 125 ml chutney
- Get 30 ml curry
- Prepare 15 ml turmeric
- Get 5 ml ground ginger
- Make ready 1 apple, grated
- Get 60 ml raisins
- Prepare 2 slices bread soaked in 125 ml milk, squeeze out milk
- Take Topping
- Get 250 ml milk
- Prepare 3 eggs
- Take 5 bay leaves
A similar dish was known in Europe in the middle ages after the Crusaders had brought turmeric. Pronounced ba-boor-tea, the national dish of South Africa is a delicious mixture of curried meat and fruit with a creamy golden topping, not dissimilar to moussaka. The South African national dish, bobotie, is a meat pie of coarsely ground lamb with plenty of curry, bay or lemon leaves and fruits, covered with a custard of milk and eggs, as homey and much loved as meatloaf is in the United States. Bobotie is somehow associated with Meatloaf due to it's similar cooking method.
Instructions to make Bobotie:
- Heat oven to 180 Celcius. Fry the onions in oil untill soft and translucent, add garlic and fry for another minute. Add vinegar, salt and meat, stirfry until mixture is light brown and dry. Turn of heat and mix in rest of the ingredients except topping.
- Transfer mixture to a 20 x 30cm ovenproof dish, press down lightly. Beat eggs and milk until blended, pour over meat mixture, top with bay leaves.
- Bake for 30 - 35 minutes at 180 Celcius.
It starts off by sauteing the minced meat along with the spices and veggies, then finishes off in the oven. The sauteed savory minced meat complements the custardy milky toppings well. Although not too spicy, this version of bobotie here has some kick to it. Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add oil, then onions, apple, and ginger; season with salt.
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