Time
0 min
Serving
8 persons
Calories
375
Bobotie is a South African dish similar to meatloaf but so much better. Ground beef is seasoned with slightly sweet curry, topped with a milk and egg custard, and baked until golden brown. It's delicious!
Ingredients
- vegetable oil: 2 Tbsp
- medium onions: 2 piece (minced)
- ½ pounds ground beef: 1 piece
- milk: 1 cup
- slices Texas toast thick-sliced bread: 2 piece
- raisins: 0.5 cup
- hot chutney: 1 Tbsp
- curry powder: 0.5 Tbsp
- apricot jam: 1 tsp
- salt: 1 tsp
- ground black pepper: 0.5 tsp
- egg: 1 piece
- pinch salt: 1 piece
- bay leaf: 1 piece
Metric Conversion
Stages of cooking
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Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
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Heat oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook onions in hot oil until soft, 2 to 3 minutes. Crumble ground beef into the skillet; cook and stir until brown, 8 to 10 minutes. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
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Pour milk in a shallow dish. Soak bread in milk. Squeeze excess milk from bread and set milk aside. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
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Add bread to beef mixture. Stir in raisins, chutney, curry powder, apricot jam, salt, and black pepper. Pour mixture into the prepared baking dish. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
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Bake in the preheated oven for 1 hour.
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Whisk together reserved milk, egg, and a pinch of salt. Pour over top of beef mixture. Lay bay leaf on top of milk mixture. Dotdash Meredith Food Studios
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Continue baking until top is golden brown, 25 to 30 minutes. Remove bay leaf before serving.
