Bobotie (Baa boo tea) is the Afrikaans word for this traditional South African dish and does not have an english translation, as far as my knowledge goes.
Make this dish fairly often and yesterday evening I told the wife I'm going to smoke it. She didn't look at all happy. I prepare our meals everyday and at a guess I'd say at the least 60% of the months meals has something to do with smoke.
I will say SWMBO said it was great as did all other participants.
Cuisine: Traditional South African
Serves: 6-8
Ingredients
2 slices bread
375ml milk
25ml oil
20ml butter
2 onions finely chopped.
30ml curry powder
15ml apricot jam (jelly)
30ml chutney
25ml brown vinegar
5ml. lemon juice
15ml Worcester sauce
25ml turmeric
1Kg mince (ground beef)
100ml seedless raisins
10ml table salt
3 eggs
8 bay leaves or lemon leaves
Directions
Break bread into pieces and soak in the milk.
In a pan fry onions and garlic until soft / translucent. Add curry powder, jelly and mix well. Add and mix in the chutney, vinegar, lemon juice, Worcester sauce and half of the turmeric.
Squeeze out the milk from the bread and add bread to onion mixture, mix well. Add ground beef, raisins and salt. Mix well and cook over low heat until meat just starts to discolour and remove from heat.
Grease oven proof dish and pour in mixture. Arrange bay leaves on top and slightly press into meat.
Beat 2 eggs and remaining turmeric into leftover milk.
Pour milk slowly over the meat.
In oven: Bake at 180C for 60 minutes
In smoker: I cooked at 155C (cold rainy day wouldn't give me more) for around 90 minutes. Make sure topping has set.
Serve on yellow rice or a decent bread. Like those many here make. Won't name names, Richard.
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For those who don't like curry this is not a curry dish. The curry powder is just a spice and resembles nothing of a curry dish.
Try this if you are able to get your hands on the ingredients. Smoked or in the oven.
Must add the smokiness took gave it another level of depth, it was good.​​​​​​​
Make this dish fairly often and yesterday evening I told the wife I'm going to smoke it. She didn't look at all happy. I prepare our meals everyday and at a guess I'd say at the least 60% of the months meals has something to do with smoke.
I will say SWMBO said it was great as did all other participants.
Cuisine: Traditional South African
Serves: 6-8
Ingredients
2 slices bread
375ml milk
25ml oil
20ml butter
2 onions finely chopped.
30ml curry powder
15ml apricot jam (jelly)
30ml chutney
25ml brown vinegar
5ml. lemon juice
15ml Worcester sauce
25ml turmeric
1Kg mince (ground beef)
100ml seedless raisins
10ml table salt
3 eggs
8 bay leaves or lemon leaves
Directions
Break bread into pieces and soak in the milk.
In a pan fry onions and garlic until soft / translucent. Add curry powder, jelly and mix well. Add and mix in the chutney, vinegar, lemon juice, Worcester sauce and half of the turmeric.
Squeeze out the milk from the bread and add bread to onion mixture, mix well. Add ground beef, raisins and salt. Mix well and cook over low heat until meat just starts to discolour and remove from heat.
Grease oven proof dish and pour in mixture. Arrange bay leaves on top and slightly press into meat.
Beat 2 eggs and remaining turmeric into leftover milk.
Pour milk slowly over the meat.
In oven: Bake at 180C for 60 minutes
In smoker: I cooked at 155C (cold rainy day wouldn't give me more) for around 90 minutes. Make sure topping has set.
Serve on yellow rice or a decent bread. Like those many here make. Won't name names, Richard.
​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​For those who don't like curry this is not a curry dish. The curry powder is just a spice and resembles nothing of a curry dish.
Try this if you are able to get your hands on the ingredients. Smoked or in the oven.
Must add the smokiness took gave it another level of depth, it was good.​​​​​​​
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