Homemade South African Bobotie
Recipe:
Set oven at 350 deg F/180 deg Celsius For fan/convection ovens the heat can be 10 deg. lower.
In a small bowl, tear up the slices of bread roughly, and pour over the ½ cup milk. Set aside.
Peel and chop the onion. Heat about 3 tablespoons oil in a large pot.
Fry the onion over medium heat until translucent.
Add the curry powder, coarsely crushed breyani spices and turmeric.
Stir, and let the spices fry for a few minutes. Add more oil if they stick: usually quite a bit of oil is needed.
Add the chopped, peeled tomato, sugar, grated apple and lemon rind and stir through. Fry for a minute, then add the meat.
Break up the meat so that the ground meat is loose. Add the salt. Stir often, and mix through with the spice mixture.
Add the apricot jam, and stir so it melts into the meat mixture.
When the meat is sort of medium done, remove the pot from the heat.
Stir through and let cool a little.
Take the bread which has been soaking in the milk, and break it up into wet crumbs. The bread will have absorbed all the milk. Add the milky crumbs to the meat mixture, and mix through.
Break the egg in a bowl, whisk, and add the milk.
Add this milk-egg mixture to the meat as well.
Turn into a greased oven dish, and stud with almonds on top. Bake for 40 minutes in the preheated oven.
Whisk the last egg with the milk and enough turmeric to turn the mixture a nice yellow colour. Take the meat out of the oven, pour over the custard, and bake about 15 minutes longer, or until the egg custard has set.
Serve with Yellow Rice (Begrafnisrys), a green vegetable such as broccoli, and a salad.
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Lentil bobotie
A typical South African dish, prepared as a vegetarian version. The sweet potato bulks up the recipe to make a filling meal, without the need for additional rice – especially when you need to control your carb portions.
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Bobotie with Yellow Potato Rice and Plantain | Veganized
A vegan version of my dads recipe for bobotie, a south-african dish, usually filled with meat, I hope you like this version!
VEGAN BOBOTIE
125 ml unsweetened non-dairy milk
3 slices of (white bread)
500g meat replacement (I used 5 vegan burgers)
you can fully or partially replace it with vegan mince or lentils
1/2 package nasi goreng seasoning (recipe to make your own down below)
1 onion
2 garlic cloves
1/2 apple
1 tbsp nandan masala (curry powder)
1 tbsp ketchup
juice of 1/2 lemon
1 tbsp mango chutney
1/2 tsp sambal oelek or sriracha
salt & pepper to taste
1/4 cup dried apricots
Soak the bread in the milk and set aside. blend up the vegan burgers/mince/lentils and add in all the other ingredients except for the apricots and blend. When everything is well incorporated gently mix through the apricots.
Add this to an oven-safe, greased dish.
For the top layer mix together the left-over milk with 1 tbsp custard powder, 1 tbsp nutritional yeast and a pinch of black salt.
Add on top and put it in the oven for 30-40 min on 180ºC
Serve with yellow rice (2 cups rice, 1 tsp turmeric, 1 tsp salt, 1 cup cubed potato, ~4 cups water) and fried plantains.
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