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Bobotie

Name: Bobotie
Total time: 75 min
Yield: Serves 6
Cuisine: South Africa
Ingredients: 600g Ground Beef; 2 Onion; 1 Bread; 250ml Milk; 2 Egg; 1 1/2 tbsp Curry Powder; 1 tsp Turmeric; 2 tbsp Apricot Jam; 2 tbsp Raisins; 1 tbsp Lemon juice; 4 Bay leaf; 1 1/2 tsp Salt; 2 tbsp Vegetable Oil; To taste Cooked rice

Main Dish

⏱ 75 min

👥 Serves 6

Difficulty ⭐

Curried ground meat mixed with dried fruit, topped with an egg custard, and baked — a Cape Malay dish of South Africa.

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📖 The Story Behind This Dish

Bobotie comes from the food culture of the Cape Malays, descendants of people brought to the Cape Colony from Southeast Asia from the 17th century onward. Curry-spiced ground meat is mixed with milk-soaked bread, dried fruit, and jam for a sweet-savory flavor, then covered with an egg-and-milk custard and baked. It's classically served with turmeric-yellow rice and chutney.

🌆 Where it's eaten: In a house on a street of colorful homes in Cape Town's Bo-Kaap, fresh-baked bobotie and yellow rice are set on the table for Sunday lunch.

🥕 Ingredients (serves 6)

Ground Beef 600g
Onion 2
Bread 1
Milk 250ml
Egg 2
Curry Powder 1 1/2 tbsp
Turmeric 1 tsp
Apricot Jam 2 tbsp
Raisins 2 tbsp
Lemon juice 1 tbsp
Bay leaf 4
Salt 1 1/2 tsp
Vegetable Oil 2 tbsp
Cooked rice To taste

👩‍🍳 Instructions

Soak the bread in 100ml milk.
Heat oil in a frying pan, sauté the chopped onion, and add the curry powder and turmeric until fragrant.
Add the ground meat and stir-fry, then mix in the squeezed bread, jam, raisins, lemon juice, and salt.
Pack the meat evenly into a baking dish.
Mix the eggs with the remaining milk, pour over the top, and tuck in the bay leaves.
Bake at 180°C for 30–35 minutes until set and browned, and serve with rice.

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