Bobotie. A traditional South African recipe • Lou's Kitchen Corner (2024)

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Ground meat

Bobotie / Main ingredient

Ground meat, called mince or minced meat outside North America, is meat finely chopped by a meat grinder or a chopping knife. A common type of ground meat is ground beef, but many other types of meats are prepared in a similar fashion, including pork, veal, lamb, goat meat, and poultry.

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Bobotie. Another dish thought to have been brought to South Africa by Asian settlers, bobotie is now the national dish of the country and cooked in many homes and restaurants. Minced meat is simmered with spices, usually curry powder, herbs and dried fruit, then topped with a mixture of egg and milk and baked until set ...

South Africa's Most Important Dish Is Also Its Most Historical. Beyond its sweet, tangy, and spicy flavors, Bobotie is a dish that shares the storied history of South African immigrants in Cape Malay. In terms of gastronomical variety and quality, South Africa's a hard country to compete with.

Bobotie is a traditional South African dish that consists of a curry flavoured minced meat, topped off with an egg and milk based layer. Although its origins are not completely clear, we do know that it is a dish that beautifully demonstrates the fusion of cultures in South Africa with a colourful and fragrant result.

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! Submitted by trixie. Updated on February 6, 2023.

Bobotie is a classic South African dish of spiced mince baked with a turmeric custard top. Serve with chutney, yellow rice or naan bread for a delicious meal packed with Cape flavours.

It's a tea-and-coffee culture, so breakfast is often a cup of something hot (with lots of sugar added) served alongside something bready. That can be a piece of toast with jam or cheese, a rusk (a thick and tooth-breakingly hard cookie), buttered bread, or even a hot dog bun.

Rooibos, which is enjoyed by millions of tisane-lovers around the world, has become an integral part of South Africans' way of life and is considered by many as our national beverage. That's why we celebrate National Rooibos Day on the 16th of January every year.

Bobotie is a baked mincemeat dish and one of the more recognizable foods to come out of South Africa. It's commonly believed that Bobotie was first derived from the Javanese dish Botok, as Dutch colonists brought the dish to South Africa from their settlements in Indonesia (née Dutch East Indies) in the 17th century.

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The first recipe for bobotie appeared in a Dutch cookbook in 1609. Afterwards, it was taken to South Africa and adopted by the Cape Malay community. It is also made with curry powder, leaving it with a slight "tang". It is often served with sambal.

In South Africa, bobotie was adopted and adapted by the Cape Malay community – many of whom were slaves and labourers with roots in modern-day Indonesia – with the addition of curry powder, as well as the spices typically being transported by the Dutch East India Company from Indonesia to the Netherlands.

Potjiekos—a traditional Afrikaans stew, made with meat and vegetables and cooked over coals in cast-iron pots. Tomato bredie—a lamb and tomato stew. Waterblommetjiebredie (water flower stew)—meat stewed with the flower of the Cape pondweed.

Bobotie appears to be a variant of patinam ex lacte, a dish documented by the ancient Roman writer Apicius consisting of layers of cooked meat, pine nuts, and seasoned with pepper, celery seeds and asafoetida. These were cooked until the flavours had blended, when a top layer of egg and milk was added.

Rice, black eyed peas, brown beans and root vegetables such as yams are also important ingredients in the cuisines of West Africa, which has begun to change over time. Meat has become increasingly consumed alongside salt and fat.