Tired of turkey? (Beef Recipes)

Member Name: Picasso

Product:	Beef Recipes
Date:	30/12/05 (883 review reads)
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Advantages: Quick and easy

Disadvantages: None unless you're vegetarian

So, you are fed up with turkey and want something different. I have been asked by several family members to make my home made burgers and to pass on recipes for a couple of quick steak dishes which they enjoy. I hope that you enjoy them too.


1. THE BURGERS

When I was little all my friends ate shop bought burgers and I wanted the same, but my mother always made her own and like all children wanting what they don't have, my friends preferred my mother's. Since then, I now appreciate how much better they are and have adapted the recipe by adding chilli to spice them up. The following ingredients make two good-sized burgers.

Ingredients

225g lean minced beef

1 small onion chopped

A pinch of salt

Freshly ground black pepper

1 egg yolk

Oil for frying

A pinch of ground chilli (optional)

2 burger baps


Simply mix the onion, meat and seasoning and bind with the egg yolk.

Divide the mixture into two and shape into flat round cakes.

Heat the oil in a frying pan and fry the burgers for around five minutes each side or until lightly browned.

Run a knife through the burgers to check that they have cooked through.

Serve on the baps (I prefer mine warm) with your favourite relish.


2. WHISKY STEAKS

Ingredients

2 steaks (fillet, sirloin or rump)

Salt

Freshly ground black pepper

25g of butter

1 garlic clove, crushed

4 tablespoons of whisky

1 teaspoon Worcester sauce
Season the steaks with salt and pepper.

Melt the butter in a frying pan and fry the garlic until soft.

Add the steaks and fry for 5 to 6 minutes on both sides or to your liking if you like your steak rare.

Add the whisky and Worcester sauce and bring to the boil.

Note: whisky may be replaced with sherry, so if you don't want to store that bottle you bought in for your aunt until next year, this is a great way to use it up.


STEAK WITH RED WINE AND MUSHROOMS

Ingredients

2 steaks

Salt

Ground black pepper

1 knob of butter

1 garlic clove crushed

Half a red pepper, cored seeded and sliced

50g of mushrooms, sliced

2 tablespoons of red wine

1 teaspoon Worcester sauce

1 teaspoon of French mustard


Season the steak.

Melt the butter in a frying pan and add the garlic.

Add the onion and red pepper and cook until they soften.

Add the mushrooms.

Push the vegetables to one side of the pan and add the steaks, cook on both sides.

Spread the vegetables over the meat and add the wine, Worcester sauce and the mustard.

Cook for a further 4 to 5 minutes and serve immediately.


MY OPINION

All three dishes are quick and extremely easy to cook. Preparation time is only a matter of minutes and cooking time a maximum of fifteen. These are ideal dishes if you get home late. Both steak dishes can be served with rice and/or salad which you can prepare whilst the steak is cooking.

Only one cooking utensil (the frying pan) is required, so it's easy on the washing up.

All can be cooked on one hob, so it's cheap on the gas.

And finally, all three taste delicious!

Bon Appetite!

Summary: 3 tasty beef dishes