Wine Bitten

Bobotie:  South Africa's spiced minced meat dish:  its diversity makes it wine friendly

Ingredients:

2 lemons

3 Slices stale bread, crust
removed

1 cup milk (1/4 cup for
soaking bread, rest to mix with eggs)

2 onions, minced

2 garlic gloves, chopped

1 tbsp. ginger, chopped

1 tbsp. curry powder

1 tsp. turmeric

½ tsp. ground coriander

½ lb ground beef

½ lb ground lamb

Salt and pepper 

6 tbsp. slivered almonds

¼ cup raisins

10 dried apricots, chopped

3 tbsp. mango chutney

3 eggs

4 bay leaves

Courtesy Karsten Boone & SAQ.com (modified)

DIRECTIONS

• Zest  1 lemon
• Thinly slice another lemon
• Break bread into large
• chunks, soak in ¼ cup milk
• Preheat oven to 350 degrees
• Sauté  (sweat) onions for a few minutes
• Add garlic, ginger, curry
• powder, turmeric, and coriander
• Cook 1 minute more
• Add meat, season with salt
• and pepper
• Turn up heat, sauté a couple
• minutes, stirring.
• Place it all in a bowl, mix
• in the almonds, raisins, apricots, chutney and bread
• Put it in a 8x8 baking dish
• Beat eggs with ¾ cup milk
• Top the meat with the
• egg/milk
• Garnish with lemon wedges and
• bay leaves
• Cook for 40 minutes
• Let stand another 10-15
• minutes