Recipes
Bobotie
Spicy mince meat with rice, a corny rice cooked with safran and raisins is served with it.
Ingredients (for 4 people)
1kg beef or lamb mince
1 large onion
125 ml seedless raisins
1 tablespoon of apricot marmalade
1 tablespoon of chutney
1 slice of white bread
1 teaspoon of butter
3 eggs
250ml milk
25ml lemon juice
2 tablespoons of curry powder
2 bayleaves
1 teaspoon of salt
3 bananas
Preparation
Soak the white bread in 1/8 litres of milk, squeeze it out and mix it together with the mince meat. Add the rest of the ingredients, apart from the butter, eggs and the rest of the milk, bayleaves and bananas and lightly brown in a pan. Then put it into a fireproof casserole dish. Mix the eggs with the rest of the milk and pour over the the mince meat,peel the bananas and slice them lengthways and put on top and garnish with the bayleaves. Bake in the oven at a temperature of 180 degrees centigrade for about 50 minutes.
Pumpkin Lamb Bredie
Ingredients (for 4 people)
20g root ginger
peppers according to taste
2 onions
1 clove of garlic
2 tablespoons of oil
1kg shoulder of lamb
salt
100ml white wine
300ml meat stock
600kg of pumpkin, seeded and peeled
cinammon according to taste
Preparation
Peel the ginger and chop finely, Cut strips of peppers, remove seeds and cube. Put both to the side, Peel the onions cut in pieces and brown witht he chopped garlic in oil. Put the lamb with the ginger and chop finely.
Cut lamb in mediumsizes pieces then add and salt and fry. After 5 minutes cover it with white wine and stock. Then put the lid on and cook for an hour. Then add the pumpkin with the ginger and peppers and simmer for another half hour. The pumpkin should not be all soft. Flavour with cinammon. Bredie should be spicy. Have a Geelrys with it.
Tomato Bredie
Ingredients (for 6 people)
1.5kg lamb breast cut in pieces
2 chopped onions
pepper
6 white peppercorns
2 potatoes
1 table spoon of sunflower seed oil
2 teaspoons of salt
1kg of ripe tomatoes, peeled and cubed
1 teaspoon of sugar
Preparation
Fry the meat in hot oil, add the onions and fry them, add all other ingredients. Put the lid on the pot and let it simmer slowly until the meat is cooked with the sauce. Lift the lid a few times in between.
Sosatie
Meat kebabs with apricots
Ingredients (for 4 people)
MARINADE
3 cloves of garlic
3 onions
4 tablespoons of apricot jam
1 tablespoon of brown sugar
2 tablespoons of curry
1 teaspoon of stock
1 tablespoon of white vinegar
sea salt
pepper from the grinder
KEBABS
500g of leg of lamb or bones
500g of pork from the hip
100g of dried apricots
Preparation
MARINADE
Peel and press garlic, peel and quarter the onions. Stir both together with the rest of the ingredients and add 4 tablespoons of water, cook for a short time and then leave to cool.
Knoblauch schälen und pressen.
KEBABS
Cut the meat into medium sizes squares, add to marinade and leave over night. Poor cold water over the apricots and soak for about 2 hours. After that drain water and use kitchen paper to dry them.
Alternatively put meat and apricots on the kebabs and grill on the barbeque.
Geelrys
Yellow rice with raisins
Ingredients (for 4 people)
300g long corn rice
1 tablespoon of Kurkuma
1 small piece of cinnamon stick
1 teaspoon of salt
1 tablespoon of brown sugar
100g currants
2 tablespoon of butter
Preparation
Cook the rice with the spices, salt, sugar and a good deal of water for about 12 minutes on a low heat. Add the currants and cook for a further 10 minutes with the lid on on a low heat. At the end take out the cinammon stick and add butter.
