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DIY Black Bean Sauce

DIY Black Bean Sauce, eat well on universal credit

We have a handy Chinese supermarket where we can get things like Fermented Black Beans, which is rather cool. To be honest we could have bough this in a jar. But it wouldn’t have tasted anywhere near as good and it wouldn’t have been as much fun. Fun is part of the cooking gig after all?

Ingredients:-

3 Tbsp of Fermented Black Beans
2 Tbsp of Garlic, minced into 1 Tbsp of Olive Oil
1 Tbsp of Black Treacle
3 Tbsp of Soy Sauce (Gluten free for us)
1 Tsp of White Rice Wine Vinegar
1 Tbsp of Cornflour & 2 Tbsp of Water mixed to a paste
2 Tbsp of fresh Ginger, Minced
2 Tbsp of Shaoxing Wine
½ a Tsp of Sriracha
The green tops of 2 Spring Onions, finely chopped

Method:-

(1) Soak the Black Beans in water for an hour, drain and mash.
(2) Mix in the Garlic in Oil and the Ginger.
(3) Add to a pan over a low heat and simmer for 2 minutes, stirring constantly.
(4) Add all the other ingredients except the Cornflour mix.
(5) Simmer for 20 minutes.
(6) Stir the Cornflour and water as it will have settled and add.
(7) Add to the sauce and simmer for a few minutes until thickened.

This make about 500ml of really strong Sauce. We’re having the remainder with slow braised Pork Shoulder this evening.

 

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Marinated Rack of Lamb with Bean Cassoulet recipe£2.39 for the best part of 1Kg of Lamb ribs. Well yes there's a lot of bone. But a good deal of meal for 3 of us.
 
Ingredients:-
 
1kg Rack of Lamb
Mixed dried Herbs
Dried Mint
4 cloves of Garlic Minced
15g sliced fresh Ginger
3 Bullet Chillies finely chopped
¼ tsp Salt
Juice of 1 Lime
60ml Soy Sauce
120ml Sunflower Oil
3 tbsp Brown Sugar
2 tbsp White Wine Vinegar
4 tbsp water
 
Cassoulet Ingredients:-
 
1 Tin of Chick Peas
2 Onions cut into quarters
2 Carrots cut into chunky batons
3 outer leave of Savoy Cabbage shredded
 
Method:-
 
(1) Mix the marinade ingredients.
(2) In a deep sided tray massage the marinade into all surfaces of the meat.
(3) Cover and place in the fridge overnight.
(4) Lift out the Lamb and layer the Cassoulet ingredients and then lay the marinated Lamb over the top, spooning over marinate to ensure the meat is well covered.
(5) Cover with foil and roast at 180c for 1 ½ hours.
(6) Uncover and continue to roast for a further 20 minutes.
 
We served ours with roasted and double fried crispy chips, home made Garlic Bread and Coleslaw. This was the best meal we've had in a long long time!

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