Promises suite...

Allready it is a couple of mornings that I am waking up in our new bedroom! YES!! After 7 and a half years of tinkering away, making nice rooms for the guest, we at long last have moved into our bedroom! There's pics to show - but that will be another chapter! Just had to share this with you quick! And what is more, I can sit in bed and work on my computer!!!! So you might get posts a bit more often! But then around 16 posts in just over a month is not too bad a start n'est pas?

So I thought that I shall give you my favourite bobotie recipe base - step by step today! 

INGREDIENTS:

2 Onions

Oil or butter (I use a mixture of the 2)

1kg minced meat (mutton, beef or leftovers of your sunday roast)

(I replace the meat with white fish eg hake as we eat very little meat!)

Couple of slices of old bread

250 ml milk

2 eggs

15 ml curry powder

22,5 ml sugar

10 ml salt

2,5 ml pepper

7'5 ml tumeric

30 ml vinegar or juice of one lemon

Almond slivers

125ml dried raisins

Lemon or Bay leaves to decorate

45 ml Chutney

METHOD:

Preheat your oven to 180°C (350°F)

Peal onions, chop small and fry in hot oil till a little brown, add curry and meat (or fish) and continue until everything is almost cooked.

In a seperate dish, mix the bread in 125ml of milk and when thoroughly soaked, add the rest of the ingredients except 1 egg, and the leaves.

Place in an ovendish and bake for about 40 to 45 minutes.

About 20 minutes before the end, mix the rest of the milk with egg and pour over the mixture.

Serve with rice and chutney.

This is the very traditional way of doing Bobotie. (As can be found in the 'Bible' of South African Cook books, Cook and Enjoy by S.J.A. de Villiers - Cook and Enjoy celebrated it's 50th Bday in 2001 - since 1951, more than half a million copies was sold)

You can imagine that it is rather difficult for me to stick to recipes, so I normally do my Bobotie portion size in silicone molds. With the leftover mixture, I do little bite size boboties for our 'apéritif'.

And when I am left with still more, I roll the mixture in Philo sheets (almost like thick cigares) and then make Bobotie springrolls!

Once again let that imagination flow-who need to stay on the highway? Go off that beaten track to discover life's surprises!! Go for it!

Life is about sharing

Bisous

Lynn