South Africa
Photo: Olga Ernst, CC BY-SA 4.0, croppedBobotie
/bəˈbuəti/buh-BOO-uh-tee
Recording: Oesjaar, CC BY-SA 4.0
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- Taste
- SavorySweet
- Made with
- BeefEgg
History
Bobotie is spiced minced meat baked under a layer of egg and milk, sweet and savoury at once, often with raisins or chutney, and served with yellow rice. It is a dish of the Cape Malay community of Cape Town, descendants of people brought from Indonesia, Malaysia and elsewhere by the Dutch East India Company from the 17th century. Its spices of curry powder, turmeric and bay leaf point to that past, and the name may come from a Malay or Javanese word. Recorded in Dutch cookbooks of the 1600s and later adopted by Afrikaner families, it became one of the best-known dishes of South Africa.
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