Traditional Bobotie and Yellow Rice
Traditional Bobotie and Yellow Rice casserole recipe. Authentic oven baked dish with some warming curry spices, minced meat, apricot jam.
- Prep Time: 25 min
- Cook Time: 60 min
- Total Time: 85 min
- Yield: 4
- Category: Meals, supper or lunch, dinner
- Method: Oven Baking
- Cuisine: South african
Ingredients
- 450 g (1 pound) minced beef
- 1 small onion
- 1 tsp of tumeric
- 1 dessert spoon of curry powder
- 1/4 teaspoon of black pepper
- 1 teaspoon of salt
- 1 thick slice of bread
- 1 tablespoon of vinegar
- 1 tablespoon of olive oil
- 1 tablespoon of apricot jam
- 1 teaspoon of chutney
- 2 –3 tablespoons of water
- 1 dessert spoon of raisons
TOPPING
- 1 egg
- salt and pepper
- 1/2 cup of milk (125 ml)
- Bay leaf
Instructions
- Heat up some olive oil and sauté the chopped onions.
- Soak the bread in the water.
- Soak raison in the vinegar.
- Stir in jam spices and seasonings and chutney, simmer for a few minutes.
- Add the meat and stir and flatten until all has been minced in well and loose.
- Then add the squeezed out bread and the raisons to the pan mixture. Keep stirring.
- Cook until the meat has been browned.
- Turn all of this into a greased casserole dish.
- Beat together the egg and milk mixture with seasoning and pour over the meat mixture in the casserole dish.
- Place the bay leaf on the top, then bake.
- Bake for 1 Hour on 180 Deg.C (350 Deg.F)
- In the mean time cook your rice but add some turmeric in it to make it yellow.
- The casserole should be brown and baked.
- Serve with rice and salad and a portion of bobotie.