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Pork Curry Fake Away

Pork Curry Fake Away

We had a little Roasted Pork Shoulder in the fridge. So as it seems Fake Aways are a Lock Down thing at the moment we thought we’d join the club. The curry was a bit of a cheat for us as we actually bought a jar of Jalfrezi sauce and the Popedums we bought as well. Our bad!

I’ll not bother with a recipe for the curry. It was a bought curry sauce, Passata, baby New Potatoes, cubed cooked Port etc. Simmered gently.

Sides wise we had some button Mushrooms which needed eating so we made…

Mushroom Bhaji

Ingredients:-

100g Button Mushrooms
2 Onion roughly chopped
100g Gram flour
½ tsp baking powder
½ tsp Chilli powder
½ tsp Turmeric
Water
Salt
Oil to fry

Method:-

(1) Mix all the ingredients with enough water to make a really sticky batter concoction.
(2) Deep fry at 180c in batches until they float and are golden brown.
(3) Drian on kitchen paper.
(4) re-dunk in the fryer when the rest of the meal is ready to serve.

Cucumber Salad

Ingredients:-

½ a Cucumber, cut into small cubes
½ an Onion, finely sliced
1 Tomato, finely diced
Cider Vinegar
Lemon Juice
Dried Mint
Oil

Method:-

(1) Mix it all up!

Saag Aloo

Ingredients:-

250g Fresh Spinach
200g New Potatoes, halved
Garlic Salt
Chilli Flakes
Oil

Method:-

(1) Boil the Potatoes for 5 minutes and set aside.
(2) Drain the Potatoes and transfer all the ingredients into a Wok or large frying pan.
(3) Fry and stir until the Spinach has wilted and the Potatoes are tender.

The curry was served on a bed of Turmeric Rice with a little home grown Parsley as a garnish. Pretty tasty meal made from a few bits & bobs which needed using up and about £2 of bought bits…...

 

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Chilli Beef with Special Fried Rice recipe

The deep fried Beef strips were inspired by the Kazakhstan recipe we did back in February. We had a piece of top side Beef in the freezer which I found in the discount fridge a month or so ago and Sue’s birthday seems a good excuse.

The ingredients in the fried rice are pretty much up to you. As long as you fried them with grated Garlic and Soy Sauce added at the end before stirring into your Rice, it will have a reasonably Chinese style flavour.

Chilli Sauce.

Ingredients:-

1 Tin of chopped Tomatoes
2 tsp hot Chilli flakes
4 dried red Chillies
1 tsp Soy Sauce
1 tsp Sugar
1 tsp Oil

Method:-

(1) Mix all the ingredients in a pan and bring to the boil.
(2) Turn the heat down and simmer for half an hour to reduce.

Battered Beef strips.

Ingredients:-

1 Top Side steak, cut into strips
1 Egg
Cornflour
Juice of a Lemon
Water
Salt & Pepper

Method:-

(1) Mix all the ingredients and add water if the batter seems too thick. You are looking for a very thin batter consistency.
(2) Flour the Beef strips in Cornflour to help the batter stick.
(3) Deep fry in batches until the batter is crispy.
(4) Keep warm under the grill until ready to serve.

We plated ours with the fried Rice at the bottom, the Beef strips next and a little Chilli sauce over the top. Some of the remaining Chilli sauce can be used as a dipping sauce.

 

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