Bobotie  

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350 degrees

1. Soak the bread in the milk, squeeze out the excess milk (keep milk). Crumb the bread.
2. Brown meat in a pan and set aside.
3. Fry onions, garlic, curry and tumeric in a pan until soft.
4. Combine meat, onion mixture, chutney, juice of the lemon, bread, salt, pepper and sugar.
5. Pour in wine/stock and allow to simmer for about 10 minutes (for a thicker dish use less of the stock/wine).
CUSTARD MIXTURE:
Combine 2 beaten eggs with the remaining milk.
6. Pour half of custard mixture into the meat.
7. Transfer the meat mixture to a casserole dish.
8. Place rolled up lemon/bay leaves into the meat mixture
9. Sprinkle top with almonds
10. Pour remaining custard mixture over top, top with a few dabs of butter

Bake for 30 minutes at 350 degrees.

Serve the Bobotie with rice (add a little turmeric when cooking the rice) add some raisons to the rice and allow them to swell in the hot rice.  Add loads of chutney.