Name: Recipe: Tasty Bobotie
Prep time: 10 min
Cook time: 33 min
Yield: 3
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 1 kg beef mince; 5 ml salt; 2 ml pepper; 3 onions, chopped; 3 garlic cloves, chopped; 45 ml oil; 15 ml vinegar; 125 ml apricot jam; 125 ml chutney; 30 ml curry; 15 ml turmeric; 5 ml ground ginger; 1 apple, grated; 60 ml raisins; 2 slices bread soaked in 125 ml milk, squeeze out milk; Topping; 250 ml milk; 3 eggs; 5 bay leaves

Bobotie. This South African original is similar to meatloaf, but so much better. A slightly sweet curry flavors ground beef with a milk and egg custard on top. Soak the slice of bread in the milk and gently squeeze out the milk; set the milk aside. Bobotie

You can cook Bobotie using 19 ingredients and 3 steps. Here is how you cook that.

Ingredients of Bobotie

Prepare 1 kg of beef mince.
It’s 5 ml of salt.
Prepare 2 ml of pepper.
It’s 3 of onions, chopped.
Prepare 3 of garlic cloves, chopped.
Prepare 45 ml of oil.
It’s 15 ml of vinegar.
You need 125 ml of apricot jam.
Prepare 125 ml of chutney.
It’s 30 ml of curry.
It’s 15 ml of turmeric.
It’s 5 ml of ground ginger.
You need 1 of apple, grated.
You need 60 ml of raisins.
You need 2 slices of bread soaked in 125 ml milk, squeeze out milk.
Prepare of Topping.
You need 250 ml of milk.
It’s 3 of eggs.
You need 5 of bay leaves.

A similar dish was known in Europe in the middle ages after the Crusaders had brought turmeric. Bobotie - hearty and comforting South African dish made primarily of curried minced meat topped with milk and egg mixture and baked to perfection. Easy, tasty dish with punchy yet on point flavors! Bobotie is a South African casserole with a curried ground beef at the bottom, and a thin layer of egg custard on top. *It might not be easy to find the breyani mix of spices we can get here.

Bobotie step by step

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..

But it is only a mix of some or all of the following spices, which you could mix yourself and crush or process coarsely: fennel seeds, coriander seeds, cumin, pimento berries, cardamom, black pepper, star anise, bay leaves and cassia or cinnamon sticks. 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.� Bobotie (Afrikaans: [bəˈbuəti]) is a well-known South African dish consisting of spiced minced meat baked with an egg-based topping. Bobotie is a recipe that was imported to South Africa from Indonesia in the seventeenth century and was adapted by the Cape Malay community. The community members are descendants of Cape Malay are slaves and political refugees from Indonesia and Malaysia.