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"hot coffee and cold winter mornings are two of the best soul mates who ever did find each other"

terri guillemets

winter has most certainly arrived in our beautiful cape town and other than a good red wine, you defs need a few amazingly scrumptious dinner recipes to make the cold nights just a little more bare able.

i found this recipe a few weeks ago while visiting my amazing mother in law - the page was covered with powders and notes she made while trying it out. she told me that it was amazing and although i haven't made it myself, i just had to share it - it looks amazeballs so i'm sure it'll taste even better! besides, i'm terrible at keeping track with where i write these recipes down, so what better way than to store it on my fav blog! :)

what you'll need:

♥ 30ml oil

♥ 3 onions, chopped

♥ 2 garlic cloves, crushed

♥ 15ml curry powder

♥ 5ml turmeric

♥ 5ml coriander seeds

♥ 5ml ginger

♥ 5ml ground cinnamon

♥ 1kg lean mince

♥ salt

♥ pepper

♥ 30ml lemon juice

♥ 30ml fine apricot jam

♥ 60ml chutney

♥ 30ml soft brown sugar

♥ 30ml worcestershire sauce

♥ 30ml tomato paste

♥ 2 slices white bread, soaked in water and mashed

♥ 250ml pip'less raisins 

♥ 250ml apple, grated

♥ 6 lemon or bay leaves

topping:

♥ 500ml milk

♥ 4 eggs, whisked

♥ salt

♥ pepper

what you'll do:

1. preheat the oven to 180C. Prepare a oven proof dish with either butter, margarine or cook-and-spray.

2. fry onion in a little oil, adding the garlic and ginger after a few minutes. 

3. add all the spices and fry for another minute.

4. add the mince - little by little and fry until just before it turns brown

5. add salt, pepper and the rest of the ingredients including the bread, raisins and apple.

6. reduce the heat and let simmer for 30 minutes

7. transfer to the prepared oven dish adding the lemon or bay leaves as you please

topping:

whisk the milk and eggs together and season with a little salt and pepper. Pour over the mince mixture and bake for about 40 minutes until the topping is cooked through. let stand for about 5 minutes before dishing.

serve immediately with rice, home made tomato salsa and sambals (recipe to follow) obviously adding a glass or two also can't hurt! :)

BON APPETIT!