Traditional South African Bobotie
Traditional South African Bobotie

Hello everybody, it is Jim, welcome to our recipe page. Today, we’re going to prepare a special dish, traditional south african bobotie. One of my favorites. For mine, I will make it a bit unique. This is gonna smell and look delicious.

South African bobotie is a meatloaf that is covered with a mixture of milk and egg that forms a custard crust. The dish is traditionally served with basmati rice, but also with chutney or sambal, the Indonesian condiment made of chili peppers. This dish is very simple to make and is prepared with easy to find ingredients. Homemade South African Bobotie is typically made with beef mince.

Traditional South African Bobotie is one of the most popular of current trending foods in the world. It’s easy, it’s fast, it tastes delicious. It is appreciated by millions daily. Traditional South African Bobotie is something which I have loved my entire life. They are fine and they look wonderful.

To begin with this particular recipe, we have to prepare a few components. You can have traditional south african bobotie using 20 ingredients and 10 steps. Here is how you cook it.

The ingredients needed to make Traditional South African Bobotie:
  1. Take Mince filling:
  2. Prepare butter
  3. Get ground ginger
  4. Make ready brown sugar
  5. Get curry powder
  6. Make ready tumeric
  7. Make ready salt
  8. Make ready medium chopped onions
  9. Take lean beef mince
  10. Get vegetable oil
  11. Get white bread,soaked in water
  12. Take seedless raisins
  13. Prepare fruit chutney
  14. Take vinegar
  15. Take worcestershire sauce
  16. Prepare tomato paste
  17. Prepare Topping:
  18. Make ready milk
  19. Make ready large eggs
  20. Make ready medium bay leaves

A slightly sweet curry flavors ground beef with a milk and egg custard on top. Traditionally, it should also include a handful of quartered almonds. 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 is a South African casserole with a curried ground beef at the bottom, and a thin layer of egg custard on top.

Instructions to make Traditional South African Bobotie:
  1. Preheat oven to 180°F celcius
  2. Heat butter and saute ginger,brown sugar,curry powder,turmeric,salt and onions together over a medium low heat until onions soften.
  3. Add mince and cook for 10 minutes.
  4. Soak bread in water. Squeeze excess water out of bread and stir into mince mixture.
  5. Add the vegetable oil,seedless raisins,fruit chutney,vinegar,worcestershire sauce and tomato paste to the mince mixture until well combined.
  6. Cook for a further 10 minutes over a low heat,stirring occassionally.
  7. Transfer to the mince mixture to an ovenproof dish.
  8. Beat milk & eggs together & pour over mince mixture.
  9. Dot topping with bay leaves & bake in the oven for 45 minutes or until egg custard is set.
  10. Serve with yellow rice. Just add 2.5ml of turmeric to the rice whilst making it.

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 is a South African casserole with a curried ground beef at the bottom, and a thin layer of egg custard on top. A South African favourite: Traditional bobotie with fragrant yellow rice Bobotie is a mildly curried and spicy ground meat casserole covered with an egg custard and is baked to golden perfection. Bobotie is a South African dish which comes in many different variations and therefore there can be a huge difference in its flavors. You can get this traditi onal dish with fish, beef, venison or ostrich.

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