Chicken Memorials

[Happymama]

Apart from bolognese sauce, meatballs, cottage pie and mince & onions in Yorkshires, mince is a bit of a poor relation when it comes to interesting food.

 

So, here's a starter to change all that:

 

It's a South African dish, originally a Cape Malay recipe, and you can add different things as variations: more spices and chillis for hotter, and to make it fruity chopped apricots and/or raisins. It's a great recipe to introduce kids to spice flavours without heat, and would mash up for babies brilliantly (maybe omit the garlic). Serve with yellow rice and/or salad. Use more turmeric to yellow the rice while cooking.

 

THE BOBOTIE FILLING

 

· 1 lb beef, minced

· 2 eggs

· 2 slices white bread, stale with crusts removed

· 1 onion, thinly sliced

· 2 tbsp cooking oil

· 2 tbsp hot water

· 2 tbsp sugar

· 2 tbsp lemon juice

· 2 tsp curry powder

· ½ tsp ground cloves

· 1 tsp garlic, crushed

· 1 tsp turmeric

· ½ tsp salt

 

 

THE BOBOTIE TOPPING

 

· 1 egg, lightly beaten

· ½ cup milk

· bay leaves or lemon leaves for garnishing

 

 

Pre-heat the oven to 325o F.

 

Soak the bread in water for 10 minutes, squeeze out the excess and then crumble.

 

In a large frying pan, heat the oil and braise the onion until golden.

 

Break the two eggs into a large bowl and beat lightly. Mix in the mince

 

 

 

Add the onion mixture from the frying pan, the hot water, lemon juice, crumbled bread, turmeric and sugar to the mince, mixing well.

 

Spoon the mixture into a well-greased, oven-proof dish and bake for 40 minutes, or until golden brown and then remove from the oven.

 

Topping

 

Combine the other egg with the milk and beat well. Pour the mixture over the bobotie and arrange the bay/lemon leaves as garnish. Return to the oven and bake at 350o F for 10 minutes, or until the topping is set.

[Snowy]

That sounds wonderful, thanks! I think it'll go down well with the kids too!

[Cinnamon]

Oooooooooo - I love Bobotie

 

here is our current mince fave

 

HALLOWEEN BEANPOT

 

fry 1 Onion until golden

Add 1 large cubed potato & fry for 1 min

Add 500g mince & fry until the mince is brown

Stri in 2 TBSP of madras curry paste, & fry for 2 mins to fire up the spices

Stir in 1 cubed & peeled Butternut squash & 300ml boiling water.

Cover & let it simmer for 30 mins.

 

it will go all juicy & wonderful.

Lightly mash with a potato masher, then add 1 large can of beans.

warm through & there you go.

 

Serve in bowls with crusty bread.

 

It is really,really gorgeous.....we had it this weekend

(& I had leftovers for brekkie this morning too )

[Rhapsody]

Lamb Slumpie- a kind of deconstructed Hotpot

 

Thoroughly brown enough lamb mince for however many people you are feeding (this is my top tip for flavour, keep browning until some bits go quite dark brown and crispy)

Add quartered onion and diced carrot and swede, when onion starts to colour add enough lamb stock to cover plus half and inch more. Deglaze the pan stirring all the lovely crunch lamby bit off the bottom into the Slumpie.

Add a bay leaf and fresh Rosemary, salt and pepper.

Put in a low oven or over a lowe heat for about an hour and a half, half an hour before the end add some quartered floury potaotes.

 

Serve in soup bowls.

[Cinnamon]

This is the sort of food I really love.

Thick,hot savoury stuff served in big dishes & eaten in front of the TV with the fire burning away

[Egluntyne]

Lamb Slumpie- a kind of deconstructed Hotpot

 

Thoroughly brown enough lamb mince for however many people you are feeding (this is my top tip for flavour, keep browning until some bits go quite dark brown and crispy)

Add quartered onion and diced carrot and swede, when onion starts to colour add enough lamb stock to cover plus half and inch more. Deglaze the pan stirring all the lovely crunch lamby bit off the bottom into the Slumpie.

Add a bay leaf and fresh Rosemary, salt and pepper.

Put in a low oven or over a lowe heat for about an hour and a half, half an hour before the end add some quartered floury potaotes.

 

Serve in soup bowls.

 

 

That sounds like "Tater Hash" to me. You can make it with beef mince too.

[Cinnamon]

I thought that I would resurrect this old post as its that time of year again,& mince is so versatile.

 

I was going to repost my Halloween Beanpot recipe, as its Butternut Squash season.

Actually,I am making it tonight

 

Any more wonderful mince recipes out there?

[henny penny]

Hi I have a recipe for pork mince - i have used turkey mince as a substitute before and someone else used quorn mince. its called Ranchero Pie. I think the recipe originally came from Tescos but I cannt be sure!

 

Ranchero pie serves 4

Topping:

675g potatoes peeled and chopped

200g canned sweetcorn drained ( could use fresh cooked sweetcorn)

25g butter

25g cheddar cheese grated

1 tab parsley roughly chopped

salt and pepper

 

Pie filling:

 

500g pork mince ( or turkey or quorn )

1 onion chopped

425g tin chilli beans

4 tabs ketchup

1 tab chilli sauce

 

Method:

 

Boil the potatoes until softened. Drain and mash. Add all the rest of the topping ingredients .Stir taste and season with salt and pepper.

 

Fry the mince over low heat until the juices start to run.Turn up the heat and add the onion and cook for 3-4 mins. Add the beans, ketchup and chilli sauce. Bring to boil and then simmer for 15mins.

Transfer mince mixture to an oven proof dish. Top with potato mixture and cook in a hot oven for 20 mins or until topping is golden brown. Serve with slald and crusty bread.

 

I have in the past used added some chopped tomatoes if it looked dry and needed something extra and I also have added some chilli powder instead of the chilli sauce.

 

you can make the mince to your own requirements- I also have added chopped courgettes during my courgette glut!!!

[chickencam]

One of our children's favourite mid week meals is beef mince fried up until crusty bits start to form mixed with fried onions and pre cooked carrots. We then add some Bovril and or Marmite to taste and maybe some water and bisto if we want a bit more gravy. This is lovely served with creamy mash.

 

Chilli Con Carne has to one of my favourites though made with plenty of cummin.

[henny penny]

hi chickencam we do something similar and call it savoury mince. Yesterday we add chopped courgettes and mushrooms to the mix and cooked it in the oven until we got a lovely thick gravy and then topped it with dumplings. Scrummy!!!

[Cinnamon]

This is a good'un too.

 

COLD WEATHER HOTPOT

 

Chop up 2 onions into wedges,& roughly chop 300g Carrots,& 1kg potatoes.

Put the kettle on!

Fry off the mince until brown,crumble in 2 beef stock cubes & add the veggies & 900ml of boiling water.

Bring to the boil, then reduce the heat & simmer for 30 mins until the veg is cooked.

Add a generous slosh of Lea & Perrins sauce,season & serve in bowl with crusty bread.

[Rhapsody]

mince curries well and lamb mince esp. Serve with raitha.

[fluffyknickers]

Meatloaf uses mince and link somewhere on here from my recent question.

 

When doing mince in yorshires do you simply make the mince (savoury mince) and make the yorkshire seperate then when both booked serve with the mince in the yorshire?

 

I like mince with a puff pastry topping. Just cook mince however you like it (we like ours with marmite stirred in) and pour in an oven proof dish and top with a sheet of puff pastry.

 

Mmmmmmm