Everyday meals
Spatlo
Street food from Botswana, popular in South Africa: fried white bread, hollowed out and filled with spiced meat and sauce. A hearty snack, crispy on the outside and soft on the inside.
Ingredients
Ingredients
Sauce
Spices & seasoning
Optional extras
On the side
Nutrition facts
590 kcal per serving
- Protein
- 25.4 g
- Carbohydrates
- 70.3 g
- of which sugars
- 13.6 g
- Fat
- 21.4 g
- of which saturated fat
- 5.8 g
- Fiber
- 4.4 g
Ecomely’s estimate, calculated from the ingredients with the ANSES Ciqual food composition table, excluding sides and seasoning added to taste.
Instructions
- Cut the top off the bread and hollow it out, leaving a wall about 1 cm thick to form a container.
- Fry the sliced onion in a little oil, then add the minced beef and brown it for 8 minutes.
- Stir in the chopped tomato, tomato paste, curry powder, chilli, salt and pepper. Simmer for 10 minutes until the sauce thickens.
- Heat the frying oil to 170 °C in a saucepan and fry the hollowed bread for 2 to 3 minutes per side, until golden.
- Drain on kitchen paper, fill the bread with the spiced meat and close with the cut-out lid if you like.
- Serve straight away, hot and crispy.
Variations and tips
Vegetarian spatlo. Replace the beef with cooked lentils or chickpeas mashed with the spices.
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South Africa
South Africa
South Africa
South Africa
South Africa
South Africa
South Africa
South Africa
Original Ecomely recipe.