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Bobotie, From The Cape Recipe

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Ingredients

Extra .
2 slices white bread, normal thickness .
1 tomato, ripe, peeled & sliced .
4 tsps curry powder, very mild (Cape Malay is the best) .
1 1/2 lbs ground beef or lamb (750 g minced meat) .
1/2 c milk, & .
1 tbsp breyani spices, generous, crushed* (see note below) .
oil (for frying) .
1 large onion or 2 smaller onions .
3/4 c milk (200 ml) .
1/3 tsp turmeric .
1 tbsp finely grated lemon rind .
1/2 tsp sugar .
1 egg .
1/2 tsp turmeric .
2 tsps salt .
1 apple, peeled & coarsely grated .
1/2 c milk (125 ml) .
2 tbsps apricot jam .
1 egg, plus

Directions

Step #1 *It might not be easy to find the breyani mix of spices we can get here.
Step #2 But it is only a mix of some or all of the following spices, cardamom, which you could mix yourself & crush or process coarsely: fennel seeds, pimento berries, star anise, black pepper, cumin, coriander seeds, bay leaves & cassia or cinnamon sticks.
Step #3 Set oven at 350 deg F/180 deg Celsius For fan/convection ovens the heat can be 10 deg.
Step #4 lower.
Step #5 In a small bowl, tear up the slices of bread roughly, & pour over the ½ c milk.
Step #6 Set aside.
Step #7 Peel & chop the onion.
Step #8 Heat about 3 tbsps oil In a large-ish pot.
Step #9 Fry the onion over med-heat/flame until translucent.
Step #10 Add the curry powder, coarsely crushed breyani spices & turmeric.
Step #11 Stir, & let the spices fry for a few mins.
Step #12 Add more oil if they stick: usually quite a bit of oil is needed.
Step #13 Add the sliced, peeled tomato, sugar, grated apple & lemon rind & stir through.
Step #14 Fry for a min, then add the meat.
Step #15 Break up the meat so that the ground meat is loose.
Step #16 Add the salt.
Step #17 Stir often, & mix through with the spice mixture.
Step #18 Add the apricot jam, & stir so it melts into the meat mixture.
Step #19 When the meat is sort of medium done, remove the pot from the heat.
Step #20 Stir through & let cool a little.
Step #21 Take the bread which has been soaking in the milk, & break it up into wet crumbs.
Step #22 The bread will have absorbed all the milk.
Step #23 Add the milky crumbs to the meat mixture, & mix through.
Step #24 Break the egg in a bowl, whisk, & add the milk.
Step #25 Add this milk-egg mixture to the meat as well.
Step #26 Turn into a greased oven dish, & bake for 40 mins in the preheated oven.
Step #27 Whisk the last egg with the milk & enough turmeric to turn the mixture a nice yellow colour.
Step #28 Take the meat out of the oven, & bake about 15 mins longer, pour over the custard, or until the egg custard has set.
Step #29 Serve with Yellow Rice (Begrafnisrys), a green vegetable such as broccoli, & a salad.
Enjoy the Bobotie, from the Cape recipe