Bobotie South African Beef Casserole Recipes

BEST BOBOTIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x13-inch baking dish.
• Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium-high heat. Cook the onions in the hot oil until soft. Break the ground beef into the skillet and cook until brown.
• Place the milk in a shallow dish. Soak the bread in the milk. Squeeze the excess milk from the bread. Set the milk aside. Add the bread to the beef mixture. Stir in the raisins, apricot jam, chutney, curry powder, salt, and black pepper. Pour the mixture into the prepared baking dish.
• Bake in the preheated oven 1 hour.
• While the bobotie bakes, whisk together the reserved milk, egg, and a pinch of salt. Pour over top of the dish. Lay the bay leaf onto the top of the milk mixture.
• Return the bobotie to the oven until the top is golden brown, 25 to 30 minutes. Remove bay leaf before serving.

BOBOTIE (SOUTH AFRICAN CURRIED BEEF CASSEROLE)

Steps:

• Preheat the oven to 375 F. Lightly grease a 9X13X2 casserole pan and set aside.
• Brown the ground beef--when it is browned, drain it of excess moisture and grease. Set aside.
• Tear the bread into small pieces. Place in a bowl and cover with 1/4 cup of the milk. Let soak for 20 minutes, turning the bread occasionally so that it soaks evenly. At the end of the 20 minutes, let any excess milk drain off.
• Heat butter in a large skillet. Add the onion with a pinch of salt. Fry until softened, about 7-8 minutes. Add the garlic and curry powder and cook for another minute, stirring to prevent scorching. Remove from the heat.
• In a large bowl, mix together the browned beef, soaked bread, the onion and garlic mixture, the raisins, almonds, lemon juice, chutney, salt, pepper and 1 egg. Mix until evenly distributed and then spread into the prepared casserole dish.
• Whisk together the remaining 3/4 cup milk with the other egg. Pour this over the casserole. Tuck the bay leaves into the casserole.
• Bake for 10-15 minutes, until the casserole is set. Let stand for 10 minutes before serving--remove the bay leaves before serving.

BOBOTIE (SOUTH AFRICAN BEEF CASSEROLE)

Steps:

• Heat oven to 350°F.
• Pour milk over bread in medium bowl. Lightly press bread into milk; let stand until ready to use.
• Brown meat in large nonstick skillet on medium heat. Remove meat from skillet; drain. Set aside.
• Add dressing to skillet; heat 1 min. Add onions; cook 3 min. or until crisp-tender, stirring frequently. Add tomato paste and dry seasonings; mix well. Cook and stir 2 min. Remove skillet from heat. Stir in meat.
• Squeeze bread slices over bowl to remove as much milk from bread as possible; reserve milk for later use. Add bread to meat mixture along with the chutney; mix well. Spoon into 2-qt. casserole sprayed with cooking spray.
• Whisk eggs with reserved milk until blended; pour over meat mixture.
• Bake 50 min. or until topping is golden brown and set in the center. About 30 min. before casserole is done, cook rice as directed on package, omitting salt.
• Top casserole with cheese; bake 5 min. or until melted. Serve with the rice.

BEEF BOBOTIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 340 F/ 170 C.
• Enjoy!

BOBOTIE RECIPE

Steps:

• Switch on the oven to 350 degrees F (175 C) to preheat.
• Pour one cup of milk into a bowl, and add the 2 slices of bread, leaving them to soak until needed.
• Add the raisins to a bowl with hot water and leave to plump up.
• Set the stove to medium high, and place a large skillet on the plate.
• Place a tablespoon of coconut or sunflower oil in the skillet and swirl to coat the pan.
• Toss in the chopped onion and crushed garlic together with the curry powder and stir as it sautés - about 2 minutes.
• Add in the ground beef, stirring to break up the clumps of meat and prevent it sticking and burning. This should take around 5 minutes.
• Add in the allspice, cloves, curry powder, dried herbs, salt and pepper and stir as it cooks for around 1 minutes, to release the fragrance of the spices.
• Add in the chutney, the grated apple, the raisins and stir as they cook for around 2 minutes.
• Lastly, break up the soaked bread and add to the mix, stirring carefully an making sure that there are no giant clumps of bread that have not been incorporated into the dough.
• Remove pot from stove and prepare to transfer the ingredient to a large oiled overproof casserole dish.
• Once transferred and leveled, break the three eggs into a bowl, and add the remaining 2 cups of milk, giving it a quick whisk with a fork to break up the egg yolks and combine the two ingredients.
• Carefully pour the egg/milk mix over the top of the bobotie, add the lime leaves in the middle, and place in the over to bake for around 35 minutes. The bobotie is done when the egg is set and the mix is golden and bubbling on top.

BOBOTIE (SOUTH AFRICAN CURRIED MEAT CASSEROLE)

Steps:

• Heat the oil in a large skillet over medium flame. Add the onions and sauté until translucent and just starting to brown. Add the ground beef and break it up while sautéing until cooked through and crumbly. Remove from heat, drain of any excess fat and place in a large bowl.
• Put the bread and milk in a bowl and soak for 5-10 minutes. Remove the bread and squeeze it dry, leaving squeezed milk back in the bowl and set aside.
• Preheat oven to 325°F Add the soaked bread, vinegar or lemon juice, raisins, sugar, curry powder, turmeric, salt and pepper to the bowl with the cooked meat and mix well. Taste and adjust seasonings. The meat should have a pleasantly sweet-sour flavor.
• Pour the meat mixture into a greased casserole dish and smooth out the top. Lay the bay leaves over the meat in a decorative pattern and press down lightly to make them stick. Bake uncovered for 30 minutes.
• Beat the eggs with the reserved bread-soaking milk. After the meat has baked for 30 minutes, pour the egg-milk mixture over the top of the meat and bake for another 15-20 minutes, or until the custard is set and lightly browned.
• Remove from the oven and serve hot with Recipe #456514 and mango chutney.
• VARIATIONS:.
• Add a couple tablespoons of mango chutney or apricot preserves to the meat if you like. A grated apple is also sometimes added.
• Stir a handful of toasted, slivered almonds into the meat mixture before cooking, or garnish the finished dish with toasted almonds.
• One or two beaten eggs can also be stirred into the meat mixture if you like.
• Substitute lemon leaves for the bay leaves if you can find them.
• Use ground lamb in place of the beef.

SOUTH AFRICAN BOBOTIE

Steps:

• Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C).
• Heat oil in a skillet over medium-high heat; add onion and saute until browned, about 5 minutes. Add ground beef to onion and saute until browned, about 5 minutes.
• Soak bread in 1/4 cup milk in a small bowl, mash, and add to ground beef mixture; stir in 1/2 of beaten egg, raisins, vinegar, sugar, turmeric, salt, curry powder, and ground black pepper.
• Transfer beef mixture to glass baking dish; insert bay leaves.
• Bake in preheated oven for 30 minutes. Whisk remaining 1/2 egg and remaining 1/4 cup milk together in a small bowl; pour over meat mixture and return to oven for 30 minutes.
• Serve with chutney.