Spicy home-made burgers with buttered carrots and crispy babies
Well, I got a Gary Rhodes cook-book for Christmas and he's given me some inspiration for some home-made burgers which I'm going to try tonight. Wish me luck...
Ingredients
250g of mince
1 egg
half a teaspoon of fennel powder
2 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
1 onion, finely chopped
1 bird-eye chilli (I have a bag of dried ones, but fresh would be good)
oil for cooking
3 large carrots
1 knob of butter
half a teaspoon of sugar
baby (new) potatoes
1. Mix the finely chopped onion, garlic chilli and fennel powder and set aside.
2. In a blender, blend the mince until very fine.
3. Add the onion mix to the blender and mix everything together thoroughly.
4. Once everything is mixed, make small burger shapes out of them, about the size of the palm of your hand and an inch thick.
5. Heat up some oil in a large saucepan or wok and gently place the burgers in the hot oil and cook about 5 minutes each side. Do it for more as you need to make sure that they are cooked all the way through, so you may need to get a crispy edge.
In the meantime:
6. Add the three chopped carrots to a pan of boiling water and simmer until soft.
7. Once drained melt the butter and sugar together and mix into the carrots.
And also:
8. Cut the new potatoes in half, still with their skins, and add to a large pan of boiling water. Simmer for about 10 minutes then remove. Then fry the potatoes in a deep fat fryer or pan of hot oil for abut 5-10 minutes or until golden brown.
Et voila!
May refine this recipe once I give it a go...
