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Crowd pleasing bobotie style bake with spicy rice

Crowd pleasing bobotie style bake with spicy rice

The chef who developed this recipe often served this bobotie at school functions or parent meetings.

  • Serves: 8
  • Difficulty: medium
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Ingredients

    • 75 (ml) 5 tbsp) butter
    • 75 ml (5 tbsp) oil
    • 2 onions, chopped
    • 15 ml (1 tbsp) crushed garlic
    • 30 ml (2 tbsp) curry powder
    • 30 ml (2 tbsp) ground turmeric
    • 2 kg minced lamb or beef, or a mixture of the two
    • 4 slices bread, crumbled
    • 250 ml (1 cup) milk
    • 4 eggs
    • 200 g dried apricots, chopped
    • 2 Granny Smith apples peeled, cored and chopped
    • ¾ cup sultanas
    • 100 ml slivered almonds, toasted
    • 8 bay or lemon leaves
    • salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste
    • finely grated rind and juice of 1 lemon

    Topping

    • 500 ml (2 cups) milk
    • 4 eggs
    • 5 ml (1 tsp) salt

    Spicy rice

    • 60 ml (4 tbsp) butter
    • 15 ml (1 tbsp) spicy curry powder
    • 750 ml (3 cups) Spekko Long Grain Parboiled Rice
    • 12 cups water
    • salt to taste

Method

    1. Preheat the oven to 160°C and butter a large casserole or 2 smaller ovenproof dishes.
    2. Heat butter and oil in a saucepan and fry the onion and garlic until soft.
    3. Stir in the curry powder and turmeric, and cook briefly until fragrant. Remove the pot from the heat.
    4. Mix the onion mixture in to the minced meat. Mix the breadcrumbs, milk, lemon rind and juice, egg, salt, pepper, apricots, apple, sultanas (golden raisins) and almonds into the meat mixture. Season with salt and pepper.
    5. Pour the mixture into a large casserole dish or two smaller dishes. Level the top. Roll up the bay leaves and bury them in the minced meat at regular intervals. Seal with foil and bake for 1 1/4 hours. Remove from the oven and increase the oven temperature to 200°C.
    6. Mix together the topping milk, eggs and salt (you may require extra topping if you’ve used a very large casserole), pour over and bake uncovered for a further 15 minutes until cooked and lightly browned. Serve with Spicy yellow rice.
    7. While the bobotie is baking, heat 4 tablespoons of butter in a large pot.
    8. Add the rice and coat. Add the curry powder
    9. Add 12 cups of water and salt and simmer until the liquid is absorbed and the rice is cooked.