Justin Bonello's Bobotie and Yellow Rice

I absolutely love the "Cooked in Africa" TV series, and thus love the cookbook too!


We had a family lunch today and this is what I served!  I will post the desert in the next post.


Ingredients:
Small knob of butter
1 Large Onion, chopped
250gr Beef mince
250gr Pork mince
3 cloves Garlic, Crushed
A small hand of Ginger, peeled and finely grated
1tsp Garam Marsala 
1/2 tsp Turmeric
1/2 tsp Ground Cumin
1/2 tsp Ground Coriander seeds
3-4 Cloves
3 All spice berries (I can't find these anywhere, if you find them let me know, I just left them out)
1 tsp Dried mixed herbs
Handful dried apricots, Chopped
1/4 cup Flaked Almonds
3 tsp Apricot Chutney
4 tsp chopped Flat Leaf Parsley
4 Bay Leaves
Handful of Sultana's
250ml Full Cream Milk
3 Large Free Range Eggs


Method:
Preheat the oven to 180 Degrees
Heat the butter in a pan and add the onion, allow to sweat and sweeten.
Remove the onion from the pan and set aside.
Turn the heat up on the pan and brown the mince.
Once browned remove the pan from the heat and add all the ingredients except the milk and eggs.
Spoon the mixture into an ovenproof dish, the mince should be 3-4 cm thick.
Using the back of a wooden spoon push the mixture down firmly.
Whisk the eggs and milk together, and pour over the mince.
Bake in the oven until the egg custard sets.
A good way to check if it cooked is to do the "wobble test", if it wobbles then back in the oven!


Serve with yellow rice:


Ingredients:
1 cup Basmati Rice
1-2 tsp Salt
1/2 tsp Turmeric
2 Cinnamon Sticks
Handful of raisins, soaked in water for 20 mins, then drained.


Method:
Cook the Basmati rice as per the packet instructions, but add the turmeric and cinnamon sticks to the boiling water.  Once the rice is cooked and drained, add the raisins.


Notes:
At the point where you mix all the ingredients together in the pan, I added about a tablespoon of flour to the mixture and added some water from the kettle.  I did this as it helps the mince mixture to be more "saucy".  I have made the recipe a couple of times, and the mince seems to be dry.  By adding the flour and water and mixing it up nicely it doesn't dry out.  I also am a bit liberal when it comes to the apricot chutney, more like three tbsp's than 3 tsp's!


Sorry no photo's it was gone before I could take a photo!


Enjoy it!!