Hey everyone, it’s Drew, welcome to my recipe page. Today, I’m gonna show you how to make a special dish, bobotie. It is one of my favorites food recipes. This time, I’m gonna make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.
Bobotie is one of the most popular of current trending foods on earth. It is easy, it is fast, it tastes yummy. It’s appreciated by millions daily. Bobotie is something that I’ve loved my entire life. They are nice and they look wonderful.
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.
To get started with this recipe, we must prepare a few ingredients. You can have bobotie using 10 ingredients and 6 steps. Here is how you cook that.
The ingredients needed to make Bobotie:
- Take 550 g Mince meat
- Make ready 1 large onion, finely chopped
- Get 1 cup milk
- Get 2 slices white bread
- Make ready 2 TBS peach chutney
- Take 1 extra large egg
- Make ready 1/2 TBS curry powder
- Make ready Salt and black ground pepper, for taste
- Make ready Oil for frying
- Prepare leaves Bay
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. In a medium bowl, mix together milk and bread to soften it.
Instructions to make Bobotie:
- Preheat oven to 175 degrees and lightly grease oven dish.
- Heat oil in the pan and fry onion until soft. Add mince, fry until it's brown.
- Soak bread into milk and squeeze the access milk from the bread. Add the bread to the mince mixture, while you put your milk aside. Stir in chutney, curry powder, salt and pepper.
- Add the mixture to the baking dish and bake for 30 minutes.
- In the meantime whisk the reserved milk, egg and salt. Pour in the baking dish and put bay leaves on top of the milk mixture.
- Return bobotie to the oven to bake until top is golden brown. About 25 - 30 minutes. Serve with yellow rice.
Heat up a large saucepan or large skillet over medium heat,then add butter until melted, followed by onions and garlic. Heat a large skillet over medium-high heat. Add oil, then onions, apple, and ginger; season with salt. Bobotie has been recognized as South Africa's national dish. With influences introduced by the spices of Cape Malay cooking, the medieval culinary practices of the Dutch settlers to the indigenous practices of rearing and eating beef, it is no wonder that this melting pot is the rainbow nation's national dish.
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