1 kg Minced beef/lamb, 1 thick slice bread soaked in 125ml milk then mashed, 2 Onions chopped, 2t Oil, 2t Borrie 2t Curry 2t Salt, 1/2t Pepper 2T Vinegar or Lemon Juice, 1T Sugar, 6 Bay or Lemon Leaves Topping: 2 Eggs, 125ml Milk. Fry onions, add spices, add meat and bread and lemon juice. Fry till done. Put into oven proof dish, make slits to put leaves in, smooth top. Bake at 180°C for 30 minutes. Beat eggs and milk and pour over hot meat. Bake for 10 minutes to set. Serve with yellow rice: 1 cup rice, 3 cups water, 1 cinnamon stick, 1t borrie, 1t salt, 1 cinnamon stick, 1/2 c raisins, 2T (yellow) sugar, 1T butter. Cook rice and spices for 15-20 mins. Drain. Add raisins and sugar and steam for about 20 minutes over boiling water to swell up raisins. Is it good? Kook en geniet. Let me know please. OK, so I can swop the sugar for apricot jam or even chutney. That makes for a fruitier taste, sure. Right, MJ, can you explain what meibossies are, and stormvrugte? . MC, I have just made it, and it was really good. I just could not find any meibossies, Lol!

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Hey Cakes, your bobotie recipe rocks but may I make a few suggestions? I was taught how to make bobotie by an old lady from the Bokaap, no offence to your culinary prowess but who else but an old lady from the Bokaap would know it better!!!-? 1. Use halaal lamb 2. Make sure the bread is thick white bread, a bit stale is apparantly better. 3. Chop some fresh apricots or use some apricot jam at the frying stage instead of using sugar. The apricot jam might sound strange but works a treat! As for the rest, same recipe same technique. Serve with geelrys and Mrs Balls'! A nice side dish to go with this is a plate of meibossies and?or stormvrugte as the bitterness balances with the hot and sweet spicey flavour of the bobotie. Man, ek het honger! .................................................................................................... Cakes, I am not sure in English, I think meibossies are actually dried tamarinds, they are eaten in the Bo Kaap, I think it is a real Cape Malay thing- they are not very sweet and rather tart, I like them but it is a love-hate thing!!! Stormvrugte are those tart berries that you can find in hedges around the Southern Suburbs, maybe similar to bitterbessies?

I am going to make this recipe and let you know, however it sounds fantastic....Thanks Cake.

Lol Cakes this sounds nice I will try it and let you know ok?xxxx

That's a good one Cakes, hope you don't mind if I borrow it? Does anyone have a good recipe for Roeties?

Sounds pretty good to me. You can also add some chutney (Mrs Balls, of course) to the mixture.