Do the young adult generation in South Africa have the genuine traditional Bobotie recipe?
Please young people, print this and make it sometimes as a traditional South African dish even though it came to us through the Malay Slave community...
BOBOTIE
Ingredients
2 slices white bread
400 ml milk
2 medium onions
30 ml butter
30 ml koljana
15 ml jeera
15 ml tumeric
15 ml chilli powder
30 ml ginger and garlic
30 ml barbeque spice
6 eggs
60 ml mrs ball chutney
1 kg mince
30 ml lemon juice
10 ml salt
5 lemon leaves or bay leaves
Method
• Preheat the oven to 180°C. soak bread in milk. Peel onions and chop fine and lightly sauté the onion in butter.
• Stir in spices and fry onion lightly adding water if necessary.
• Press most of the milk out of the bred (reserve the milk) and crumble the bread finely.
• Beat one of the eggs.
• Mix the bread, beaten egg, curried onions, minced beef, lemon juice, sugar and salt.
• Spoon the mince mixture into an ovenproof proof dish. Add leaves to the mixture. Beat remaining eggs and milk together and pour over meat mixture.
• Bake the bobotie for about 1 hour till golden brown.
Serve hot with yellow rice and chutney.
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