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The Fair Trade Cook Book
The FAIRTRADE COOKBOOK
Fair Trade Recipes for a Fairer World

Bobotie

From South Africa, this interesting dish is traditionally served with yellow rice (long grain rice cooked with turmeric, raisins, and sometimes a little coconut milk), and with a set of traditional relishes including raw grated carrot salad, grated coconut, chutneys, sliced cucumber in a little vinegar, chopped peanuts, and many others.
Bobotie At home we serve it with peas pilau and a green salad.

Ingredients

250 ml milk
2 slices of bread
2 onions, peeled and finely chopped
1 clove garlic finely chopped
a little cooking oil
15ml mild Fair Trade curry powder
freshly grrround FAIRTRADE black pepper
450 gm minced lamb or beef
60 ml FAIRTRADE chutney or
FAIRTRADE strawberry jam or
FAIRTRADE marmalade
25gm slivered almonds
5 ml salt
2 eggs
FAIRTRADE Sources
Jam
Chutney
Herbs and Spices

Method

Pour half the milk onto the bread and allow it to soak.
Fry the onion and garlic until translucent.
Mash the bread with a fork or your hands and add it to the onion and garlic mixture, the spices, the meat, the jam, half of the slivered almonds, and the salt. Mix together thoroughly, the easiest way to do this is with your hands.
Pack the mixture into a baking dish to a depth of about 4 cm.
Beat the eggs with the remaining milk and pour this on the top, then sprinkle on the remaining slivered almonds.
Decorate with lemon slices or bay leaves arranged in a little group in the middle.
Bake in a pre-heated medium oven (180ºC, 350ºF, Gas Mark 4) for 45 - 50 minutes until the meat is cooked through and the custard on the top has set and turned golden. You may need to cover the top for the last 15 minutes to prevent burning.

To serve

Serve hot in slices like a pie.