- Bobotie
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Bobotie is one of South Africa's best known
traditional dishes. It has a sweet and spicy (as hot as you like it)
taste. Bobotie is truly a must if you want to explore your South
African palette.
Ingredients:
1 cup of milk
1 slice of bread
2.5 pounds hamburger (minced beef)
1 chopped onion (medium size)
1/2 cup seedless raisins
3 teaspoons apricot jam
2 tablespoons lemon juice
1/2 cup blanched almonds
2 teaspoons medium (or hot) curry powder
1 teaspoon turmeric
2 teaspoons salt
2 teaspoons cooking oil
4 bay leaves
3 eggs
1. Soak the bread in 1/2 cup
milk and squeeze dry. Mix it with the hamburger.
2. Mix all the other ingredients in except the remaining milk, oil,
eggs and bay leaves.
3. Heat oil in a frying pan and brown the meat mixture lightly.
4. Turn out into a casserole.
5. Beat eggs with remaining milk and pour over meat.
6. Garnish with bay leaves and bake at 350 F until set.
7. Serve with plain or yellow rice.
This dish is enough for 8
people.
- Pumpkin Fritters
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Pumpkin Fritters is a sweet favorite and goes well
with curry dishes like Bobotie.
Ingredients:
2 cups pumpkin*, cooked and mashed
1/4 teaspoon salt
2 tablespoons flour
1 egg, beaten
1 teaspoon baking powder
butter or oil
sugar mixed with ground cinnamon (1/4 cup sugar and 1 teaspoon
cinnamon sugar)
lemon slices
1. Mix pumpkin*, egg, flour,
baking powder and salt together.
2. Heat butter in a frying pan and drop in spoonfuls of mixture.
3. Fry on both sides until golden.
4. Serve hot, sprinkled with cinnamon sugar and garnish with lemon
slices.
*If pumpkin is watery, add more flour.
This dish is enough for 4
people.
- Milk Tart
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(Similar to American Custard Pie)
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This is one of Rudi's favorites! It can be enjoyed
at tea-time, with a coffee break, or even as a dessert.
Ingredients:
2.5 pounds of puff pastry
3 teaspoons butter
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 cinnamon stick
6 cups boiling milk
4 teaspoons custard powder
4 teaspoons corn flour
6 teaspoons cake flour
4 table spoons cold milk
1 cup sugar
7 eggs, separated
1 teaspoon almond essence
cinnamon sugar (1 teaspoon ground cinnamon mixed into 1/4 cup sugar)
1. Line 4 pie plates with
pastry, making a raised edge for each.
2. Add butter, salt and cinnamon stick to boiling milk.
3. Mix custard powder, corn flour and flour to a paste with cold
milk. Stir in a little hot milk mixture. Stir custard powder mixture
into hot milk mixture, add 1/2 cup sugar and bring to the boil,
stirring continually.
4. Remove from stove when thickened, and discard cinnamon stick.
5. Beat egg whites until stiff but not dry. Gradually beat in
remaining sugar.
6. Beat egg yolks lightly and stir in a little custard mixture and
add almond essence. Fold in egg whites.
7. Pour filling into pastry cases and bake at 400 F for 10 minutes.
Lower heat to 350 F and bake for 10 to 15 minutes.
8. Cool slightly and sprinkle with cinnamon sugar.
This recipe makes 4 milk tarts.
Coconut Clusters
Another one of Rudi's favorites! It can be enjoyed
at tea-time, with a coffee break or as a snack.
Ingredients:
1/2 cup of milk
1/2 cup of coco
2 cups of sugar
1/2 cup of margarine
3 cups of oats
1 teaspoon of vanilla flavoring
1 cup of coconut
1. Simmer milk, coco, sugar and
margarine for 5 minutes and remove from stove.
Do not cook longer than 5 minutes!
2. Add the oats, vanilla and coconut and stir.
3. Take teaspoon-fulls out and place them on wax paper to cool down.
Delicious snack that is easy and
quick to make.
- Apple Tart (Cobbler)
- This is one of Sharon's favorites! It can be enjoyed
at tea-time, with a coffee break, or even as a dessert.
Ingredients:
1/4 cup of butter or margarine
2 eggs
3/4 cup of sugar
1 cup of self raising flour
1 can of unsweetened apples
1/4 cup of milk
Syrup
3/4 cup of sugar
1 teaspoon of vanilla flavoring
3/4 cup of evaporated milk or cream
1. Mix eggs and sugar together
2. Add milk and melted butter to mixture
3. Add flour and mix well
4. Pour into a big tart or cobbler-dish (The mixture is slack)
5. Decorate apples on top and bake for 30 minutes at 400 degrees
Fahrenheit
Syrup
1. Cook sugar and evaporated milk (or cream) together for 5 minutes.
2. Add flavoring
3. Pour warm syrup over the tart.
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Milk Custard Dumplings
In years past this dish was enjoyed by many South
Africans. Traditionally known as "Melkkos" it was enjoyed by many.
Ingredients:
1 Liter (Quart) of milk
Dumplings: (3/4 cup of flour, salt to taste, 3/4 cup of milk)
1 Teaspoon butter (not margarine)
sugar & cinnamon
1. Bring to boil milk & butter
together slowly
2. Make dumplings by adding milk a teaspoon at a time to the flour
and stir with a fork or finger until dumplings form in the flour. Do
not use to much milk.
3. When the milk boils, mix in flour and dumplings and stir slowly
as it cooks for 5 minutes.
4. Serve hot sprinkled with cinnamon sugar.
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