Bobotie Recipe

Bobotie Recipe

Here is a delicious bobotie recipe from South Africa, which is a traditional ground beef dish originating in Malaysia. Now you can make your own from scratch. Enjoy!

A traditional Cape-Malay recipe from South Africa.

Course: Main
Cuisine: South African

Ingredients

• 1 lbs cooked Ground Beef
• 1 big Onion
• 1 tbsp Butter
• 1 slice bread soaked in milk
• 1 tbsp Curry (paste or powder – I use paste)
• ½ cup Coconut (not sweet or almonds)
• Juice of one lemon
• 2 tbsp Vinegar
• 1 tbsp Apricot jam or 1 dessert spoon honey
• 3 cups Milk
• 3 Eggs

Instructions

1. Cook the ground beef with onion in oil or butter.
2. Add a little salt and pepper and one tablespoon tomato paste for flavor to the ground beef.
   Also add a little parsley.
3. In a different pan, fry the onions in butter and add curry – allow to become darker.
4. Beat the eggs and milk together.
5. Add lemon juice into curry mixture, then apricot jam, coconut, bread & vinegar.
6. Add ground beef and one third of milk & egg mixture.
7. Bake for ten minutes in pyrex dish uncovered at 325 °F.
8. Then pour over the balance of milk & egg mixture and leave in oven until brown.