Bobotie, Conventional South African Cooking!

Bobotie is without doubt one of the proudest and oldest South African recipes. It used to be influenced and impressed via the slaves that got here to South Africa. They introduced with them their nice spices and flavours, and Bobotie used to be invented!

Substances:

2 huge onions

2 tablespoons butter

1 thick slice of white bread

1 cup milk

1 kg mutton (minced red meat can be utilized as change)

2 ½ tablespoons robust curry powder

1 teaspoon turmeric

2 tablespoons apricot jam

2 almonds, quartered

¼ cup lemon juice (or vinegar)

2 teaspoons salt

½ teaspoon white pepper

¼ cup seedless raisins

1 inexperienced apple, grated

10 dried apricots, soaked and lower up (or apricot jam)

Four lemon leaves or dried bay leaves

2 eggs

Approach:

1. Pre-heat the oven to 180°C. Frivolously fry the onions within the butter.

2. Soak the bread in part the milk and mash with a fork.

3. Combine the beef with all the elements apart from for the eggs, the remainder of the milk and bay/lemon leaves.

4. Put the combination in an oven evidence dish. Push the lemon/bay leaves in at the most sensible.

5. Duvet and bake for roughly 40 mins.

6. Beat the eggs and milk in combination and pour over the beef. Reasonably elevate it to permit the egg to run into the bobotie. Bake till brown on most sensible (about 15 - 20 mins).

To serve:

Serve bobotie with yellow rice and raisins. Aspect dishes that cross nice with bobotie and yellow rice are greens like inexperienced beans and candy potato, or take a look at potato salad.

Supply via Lizel Salter