Recipe#1502

Title: Bobotie 03

From: rfoster@bellsouth.net (Robert Foster) 
 Newsgroups: rec.food.recipes 
 Subject: Bobotie 
 Date: 16 Oct 1996 22:27:13 -0600 
 Message-ID: <32607168.4239825@mail.bna.bellsouth.net>

3 tbsp. butter or margarine
 1 1/2 c. chopped onion
 2 c. fresh bread crumbs
 1/2 c. milk
 3 lbs. chuck beef, ground 3 times
 1 egg
 1 to 2 tbsp. curry powder
 2 tsp. salt
 2 tbsp. plum jam
 2 tbsp. lemon juice
 1/4 c. ground blanched almonds
 3 bay leaves
 2 lemons, sliced
 Lemon leaves
 2 pimento strips
 Start heating oven to 350 degrees.  In a small skillet, melt butter;
 add onion and saute until golden.  Soak bread crumbs in milk.
 Thoroughly combine chuck, egg, onion, curry powder, salt, plum jam,
 lemon juice and almonds.  Also bread crumb mixture.  In the bottom
 of a ungreased 10 inch pie plate or round baking dish, lay bay
 leaves.  On top, arrange the meat mixture, patting it with a fork.
 Leave about an inch between mixture and edge of dish or plate.
 Bake 1 hour; then drain off any excess liquid.  Serve with lemon
 slices and leaves arrange as a border around the edge of the meat:
 lemon slices touching with leaves placed under slices where they
 meet.  Take a lemon slice, cut half way, twist it and place on top
 with pimento strips running under the twist of the lemon.  Serve
 in wedges.  Makes 8 servings.