Bobotie

Name: Bobotie
Yield: Serves 4
Cuisine: South Africa
Ingredients: salt and pepper; 300 ml/ ½ pt milk; 3 eggs; 1 tbsp mango chutney; 30 g/ 1 oz flaked almonds; juice of ½ lemon; 30 g/ 1 oz sultanas; 1 slice of white bread; 170 g/ 6 oz onion, diced; 450 g/ 1 lb minced lamb; 1 tsp mustard powder; 2 lime or fresh bay leaves; 1 sharp dessert apple, peeled, cored and diced; 1 tbsp medium-hot curry powder; 30 g/ 1 oz butter, plus more for the dish

Preparation info

Serves
4

Difficulty
Medium

Appears in

The Daily Mail Modern British Cookbook

By Alastair Little and Richard Whittington

Published 1998

About

The South-African dish bobotie is a rather more exotic version of shepherd’s pie, lightly flavoured with curry spices and covered with savoury custard.

Ingredients

1 slice of white bread
300 ml/ ½ pt milk

Africa
South Africa
Main course
Spicy

Method

Preheat the oven to 180°C/350°F/ gas 4. Tear the slice of bread up into a small bowl and cover it with the milk.

Over a low heat, sweat the diced onion in the butter until soft and translucent. Add the apple and curry powder and continue to