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Steps to Prepare Ultimate Traditional South African Bobotie

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Traditional South African Bobotie

Hello everybody, I hope you’re having an incredible day today. Today, we’re going to make a distinctive dish, traditional south african bobotie. One of my favorites food recipes. For mine, I am going to make it a bit unique. This will be really delicious.

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To get started with this particular recipe, we have to first prepare a few ingredients. You can have traditional south african bobotie using 16 ingredients and 5 steps. Here is how you can achieve that.

The ingredients needed to make Traditional South African Bobotie:
  1. Get 1 kg free-range beef mince meat
  2. Get 2 onions, chopped
  3. Make ready 30 g butter
  4. Get 2 slices brown bread
  5. Prepare 1/14 cup buttermilk
  6. Make ready 3 free-range eggs
  7. Get 1/4 cup dried apricots
  8. Make ready 1/4 cup raisins
  9. Make ready 1 tablespoon apricot jam
  10. Prepare 2 tablespoons Mrs balls chutney
  11. Prepare 1 tablespoon bobotie spice mix
  12. Take 1 tablespoon curry powder
  13. Take 2 tablespoons brown sugar
  14. Take 1/4 teaspoon turmeric
  15. Prepare 4 bay leaves
  16. Prepare to taste Salt and pepper

What is the origin of bobotie? 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. Bobotie is a traditional South African dish of curried minced meat baked with a creamy egg-based topping, similar to moussaka.

Steps to make Traditional South African Bobotie:
  1. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C. Melt the butter and add the chopped onions to a large pot and cook until translucent. Add the mince to the pot and cook until golden brown and caramelized.
  2. Season with salt and pepper. Tear bread into smaller pieces and mash it with 1/4 cup of buttermilk and 1 beaten egg. Then add to the pot with the mince.
  3. Mix the raisins, apricots, curry powder, bobotie spice mix, 2 bay leaves, chutney and apricot jam, then add to the pot of mince. Stir to combine and take off the heat. Transfer to a roasting dish.
  4. For the egg mixture, beat the remaining two eggs with the remaining buttermilk and turmeric. Pour this egg mixture over the cooked spiced mince meat and place the remaining bay leaves on top of the unset bobotie then bake for 20 minutes.
  5. Serve with savoury yellow rice or basmati rice.

The community members are descendants of Cape Malay are slaves and political refugees from Indonesia and Malaysia. Bobotie is a traditional South African dish of curried minced meat baked with a creamy egg-based topping, similar to moussaka. Remove recipe Save recipe Save Remove recipe Save recipe Print Rate. Cape Malay Bobotie is an all-time favourite among South Africans. The combination of minced meat with egg on top may seem a bit unusual to someone not born and bred in South Africa.

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