South African Bobotie
By: marie claire sa...
Published: Sunday, January 1, 2012 - 7:40am

Ingredients




1 kg minced pork
1 slice white bread
375 ml milk
2 onions finely chopped
30 ml cooking oil
15 g curry powder
15 ml apricot jam or 10 ml sugar
Lemon juice or vinegar
12 crushed almonds
Curry leaves (or kalamansi leaves)
3 eggs beaten
Salt and pepper

Preparation

1 Soak bread in milk 2 Sauté onions 3 Add curry 4 Add meat and remaining ingredients 5 Stir mixture with fork 6 Spoon mixture into a greased dish 7 Place curry leaves on top 8 Bake at 160° for 45 min 9 Combine topping ingredients by beating thoroughly 10 Pour over meat and bake for a further 15 min 11 Serve with yellow rice.

About

I ordered a BOBOTIE, a well known South-African dish for the first time at Pilgrim's Rest in the Eastern Transvaal.
A little village whose name was given by the gold seekers on their route to discovery, a route often crossed by disappointed dreams....