Bobotie - cooking recipe

Ingredients

2 onions
cooking oil or butter
2 or 3 lb. minced meat (mutton beef or leftover meat)
1 slice bread
1 c. milk
2 eggs
1 Tbsp. curry powder
4 lemon or bay leaves or grated yellow rind of 1 lemon
1 1/2 Tbsp. sugar
2 tsp. salt
1/2 tsp. pepper
1/2 Tbsp. turmeric
2 Tbsp. vinegar or juice of 1 lemon
6 almonds, quartered
1/2 c. seedless raisins
3 Tbsp. chutney
rice and chutney

Preparation

Preheat the oven to 350\u00b0.
Peel and slice the onions thinly. Fry lightly in hot oil and if uncooked meat is used, fry with the onions until slightly cooked and crumbly.
Soak the bread in the milk and squeeze out the milk.
Mash the bread.
Mix all the ingredients except 1/2 cup milk, 1 egg and the lemon leaves. Spoon the mixture into a greased ovenproof dish, roll up the leaves and insert them in an upright position in the meat mixture. Bake for 1 hour if uncooked meat is used and for 45 minutes if cooked meat is used.
Beat the remaining egg with 1/2 cup milk and pour over the meat 30 minutes before the end of the cooking time. Serve with rice and chutney.