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Thai stir-fried minced Beef with Basil and Chilli

Thai stir-fried minced Beef with Basil and ChilliThis recipe IS NOT for the faint hearted!
 
Ingredients:-
 
For the sauce
 
35ml fish sauce
2 bird’s-eye chillies, finely sliced
1 garlic clove, very finely sliced
1 tbsp lime juice
1 tsp coriander, finely chopped
 
For the beef
 
6 red or green bird’s eye chillies (fewer if you want it less hot)
4 small garlic cloves
3 tbsp vegetable oil, plus more for deep-frying the eggs
200g good-quality, coarsely minced beef
good pinch of caster sugar
about 2 tbsp fish sauce
big handful of Thai basil  (or holy basil from specialist Asian shops)
2 large eggs
 
Method:-
 
(1) For the serving sauce, mix together the fish sauce, chillies and garlic and set aside for the flavours to meld.
(2) Meanwhile, for the beef, coarsely chop the chillies with the garlic and a pinch of salt.
(3) Heat about 10cm of oil in a saucepan (for the deep-fried eggs) while you cook the beef. 
(4) Heat 3 tbsp of oil in a wok then fry the garlic and chilli mixture, but don’t let it colour. Add the beef and stir-fry for a minute, until only just cooked. 
(5) Season to taste with the sugar and fish sauce but be careful not to make it too salty. Add 50ml water and gently simmer for a minute, but don’t let it boil or the meat will become tough. There should be enough liquid to make a bit of a sauce.
(6) Stir in the basil and remove from the heat.
(7) Fry your eggs. To deep-fry, have the oil really hot and crack in an egg so it’s submerged. Fry until the white is crispy and the yolk still runny. Drain well. 
(8) Add the lime and coriander  to the sauce and serve alongside the beef with Rice noodles and a fried egg on top of each dish.

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Hot & Spicy Scotch Eggs recipe

There were Hot & Spicy Sausages on a 2 or 1 offer the other day. Yesterday we had a strange fusion of Sausage Rolls and Pigs in Blankets. Tonight we had another pop at Scotch Eggs.

For 3 Scotch Eggs:-

Ingredients:-

6 Hot & Spicy Sausages, removed from their skins
3 Eggs, soft boiled, shelled and cooled
1 Egg, beaten for an egg wash
Plain Flour (Gluten free for us)
Bread Crumbs (Sliced brown Gluten free Bread wuzzed up in our case)

Method:-

(1) Once you Eggs are cool enough to handle press the Sausage meat into circles on a board about 4 / 5mm thick.
(2) Place each Egg in the middle and form the Sausage meat into a reasonably uniform coating. But careful not to burst your yokes.
(3) Place in the fridge for 10 minutes for the Sausage meat for stiffen slightly.
(4) Remove from the fridge and roll in the Egg wash.
(5) Roll in the flour and then in the Egg wash again.
(6) In a bowl filled with Bread crumbs coat the outside of your meat coating in crumbs. If your fingers stick you can patch up the crumbs by hand.
(7) Place on a tray lined with Parchment and pop in a pre-heated oven at 180c for 35 to 40 minutes. If you have a probe you are looking for 75c in the thickest part of the meat. If not 40 minutes should be plenty of cooking time.

We served ours with 3 times fried hand cut chips, a salad and hand cut Coleslaw. Remarkably filling and really quite fun to make. If you get it just right you’ll still have a slightly runny yoke…..

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