Description:
If you feel adventurous, here's a recipe for South African Bobotie that basically cannot fail.
(This recipe has been posted earlier, in Dutch. People asked for an English version, so here you are!)
Ingredients:
Ingredients for the Bobotie:
1 kg ground lamb and or beef
4 large onions
4 - 6 slices of bread (not wholewheat but any other kind will do)
1 - 1½ cup of milk
2 - 3 eggs, depending on how large they are
2 teaspoons mild to spicy curry powder (I always use Madras curry) or more, to taste
1½ tablespoons sugar
2 - 3 teaspoons salt, or more or less to taste
½ teaspoon black pepper
½ teaspoon cayenne pepper
½ - 1 tablespoon kurkuma (also called kunjit or tumeric)
4 tablespoons vinegar
10 - 15 almonds, coarsely hacked
½ - 1 cup seeded raisins
3 - 5 tablespoons fine apricot jam
Bobotie and (apricot) chutney simply belong together, so I added a quick recipe for chutney
Ingredients for the quick apricot chutney:
1 cup fine apricot jam (no thick lumps of fruit)
½ teaspoon salt
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper or more, depending on how hot you like it
½ teaspoon ginger
¾ cup vinegar
Directions:
Directions to make the bobotie:
Slice and dice onions, not too finely, and brown lightly in oil or fat. Add minced meat, brown.
Soak bread in milk till soft. Squeeze out some of the milk, crumble into meat in pan. Mix well.
Add all the ingredients except for one egg and half a cup of milk. Mix well (either mix it all and add at once, or mix in egg off the fire). Pour mix into oven pan, bake about 1½ hour in a mild oven (160 - 180 deg C); better too cool than too hot.
About ½ hour before it's done, do the following:
Mix the remaining egg with ½ cup of milk and pour over the mix in the oven. Fully cover the surface. then, another half hour in the oven and it's done.
Serve with (yellow) rice and chutney.
Directions to make a quick aprocot chutney:
Mix all, add vinegar to taste
Cook softly till it's thickened to the consistency of a very runny jam.
Cool, save in glass jar. Enjoy with bobotie or with curry, cheese sandwich, rub over chicken and pop into oven, etc etc.