Showing posts with label Beef. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Beef. Show all posts

Sunday, 2 September 2012

Spinach-Beef Balls

Ingredients

Corned beef…….…………220g (crumbled)
Spinach……..…….……….150g (finely chopped)
Egg…….……………………..1 (large)
Onion………………………..1 (small, finely chopped)
Garlic……………..............2 cloves (large, chopped)
Green chilli…………….....1 (finely chopped)
Ground black pepper….½ tea spoon
Flour…………….……….….3 tablespoon
Oil to cook
Salt to taste

Method
  • Wisk the egg in a large bowl.
  • Add spinach, corned beef, onion, garlic, chilli, ground pepper salt and 1 table spoon of flour to it and mix. Add a little oil if you want to make it a little more moist to roll into small balls.
  • Now use your hand to make 1 inch balls, roll the balls in the flour to coat them and place it on a baking tray greased with oil.
  • Preheat oven on grill mode at 230°C, drizzle some oil on the balls on the baking tray before placing the tray in the oven.
  • Grill for 15 min and remove the tray and let them cool for a few min.
  • Stack them on a serving plate and garnish with fresh baby spinach.
  • Serve hot with your choice of condiments.  

Thursday, 24 May 2012

Corned Beef Patty Burger

Ingredients

Corned beef………………220gm
Potato………………………1 (large, boiled)
Green peas………………..1 cup (boiled)
Breadcrumbs…………….2 cup
Green chilli…..…………..2 (large, chopped)
Basil…………………………1 tea spoon
Burger bread…………….5 (sliced)
Butter………………………2 ½ tea spoon
Onions……………………..1
Tomato…………………….2
Mayonnaise………………5 table spoon
Mustered………………….2 ½ tea spoons
Salt to taste
Oil to shallow fry patties

Method
  • Mash the boiled potato and peas in a bowl. Now add the corned beef, basil, chillies and salt. Mix well.
  • Divide the mix in 5 equal portions. Roll each portion on the palm of your hand, and then press to flatten them into 3/4 inch thick burger patties.
  • Spread the breadcrumbs on a plate to easy the coating process. Now coat the patties with breadcrumbs on all sides.
  • Heat some oil in a shallow frying pan. Drop a few breadcrumbs in the oil to check if it’s hot enough to start cooking. They should start to sizzle immediately.
  • Shallow fry the patties for 7 min on both sides or until their colour changes to deep golden brown and are cooked from the inside. Drain them on a paper towel. 
  • After all the patties are cooked, drop ½ tea spoon of butter in the hot pan and lightly toast sliced burger bread in the butter (only the insides). Repeat the process for each of the 5 sliced burger breads.   
  • Slice the tomatoes into half’s and then chop the half’s into semi-circle slices of to medium thickness. Repeat the same for the onions.
  • Now apply mayonnaise on the top slice of the burger bread and mustered on the bottom side. Place a patty on the bottom slice and top the patty with the tomatoes and then the onions slices. Cap the burger with the top half of the burger bread.
  • Serve hot with your choice of condiments.   

Wednesday, 9 May 2012

Corned Beef with Spaghetti

Ingredients

For the Corned beef:
Onion……………………...1 (large, chopped)
Tomato…………………...2 (chopped)
Green chilli………..….…1 (chopped)
Ginger…………………..…1 table spoon (chopped)
Paprika powder………..½ tea spoon
Corned beef………………4 slices
Oil to cook
Salt to taste

For the spaghetti:
Spaghetti                        fist full
Water to boil the spaghetti
Salt to taste

Method

For the corned beef:
  • Heat oil in a pan and add ginger and onion. Sauté till onion become transparent.
  • Now add the chilli, paprika powder, tomatoes and salt. Mix well and cook for 1 min.
  • Add in the corned beef slices. As the slices begin to crumble with the heat, use you cooking spoon to mash the beef into mince.
  • Mix well with other ingredients.
  • Cook for 5 min with the lid on.
For the Spaghetti:
  • Boil water and add salt to it.
  • Add the spaghetti to the boiling water and cook for the required amount of time.
  • Once cooked, drain the spaghetti using the pasta drainer.  
Arrange spaghetti on a plate and top it up with the corned beef. Serve hot.

Serves: 2