bobotie
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A South African baked dish of spiced minced meat with an egg topping
- noun
- /bəˈboʊti/
- South African
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bobotie
- At the restaurant, I ordered bobotie, which had a spiced meat filling topped with a creamy egg custard.
Examples
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The chef specializes in traditional South African cuisine, and his bobotie is a must-try dish.
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Like wine and bobotie okay.
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For dinner, I made a delicious bobotie served with yellow rice and chutney.
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word bobotie likely comes from a Malay or Indonesian word bobotok that meant 'a cooked, spiced meat dish' and was brought to South Africa by Malay cooks. So bobotie today is the South African version of that idea, a warm curried minced meat bake with an egg topping, much like a spicy meat pie.