I made kebab and chips from scratch for our supper tonight, It's not the most fancy thing to Blog about as my first recipe & menu, but I have to start somewhere other wise I will continue to procrastinate! like they say no time like the present!
So because I am new at this I will try my best to convey and make sense of what I did and I hope it sounds yummy enough for you to try it too!
Here is what I did
prep time 15 mins
cooking time 40 mins
To start you will need:
wooden skewers
plastic bowl
potato peeler
saucepan
frying pan
chopping board
Baking tray or oven proof dish
Ingredients:
Potatoes (organic Home grown)
Beef as burgers or minced meat
store brought garden salad
pineapple
sweetcorn
black pepper
lettuce
tomato
cucumber
sweet peppers
onion finely chopped
store brought Coleslaw
plain flour
Olive Oil
seasonings:
sugar
Thyme
Maggi cube
salt
pepper
BBQ sauce
breadcrumbs
beef seasoning
ginger paste
Garlic Paste
The above is what I used but below
(For that extra flavour:)
coriander
chili
lime
add to the Beef/Kebab meat
So firstly you take you're meat as much as you need and mash it with a fork then continue with you're hands. with the meat portions I have to feed a family of three; and yes i have got to get better at people to food ratio thing! When i start with ,my personal trainer next month i guess i will understand it better,but for now I make too much for everyone and we eat too much lol!
anyway; I digress; with the mashed beef meat add all you're herbs, spices and seasonings from the teaspoon of sugar to garlic paste. Personally I never add a pinch of any my spices unless its salt. With everything else i just shake and stir according to what my taste buds are accustomed to! So I am not a fan of salty tastes unless its with something sweet for example, sweet and sour chicken or honey roasted salty cashews or salted caramel etc etc..so my seasonings are a little on the sweeter side with this meat than too salty.
Next add the garlic to the mashed meat, ginger for a fragrant taste to the beef and its a food preserver also, add the flour maybe 1/4 cup to bind it all together but it should not be grey you have added too much , so it would be better to sift it in you will see how much you need to make it a paste the flour helps to keep it on the skewers so really not too much.
Then take a skewer : (Handy tip to stop you're skewer from burning in the oven soak it in cold water for about 20 mins you will need to do this as part of you're prep)
and add you're meat to the skewer; meaning don't make balls and pop them on there likely to slide down take the skewer and add the meat to it, you can play around with the design but keep the layering of meat thin so it cooks evenly as i have done in the pictures below:
In the first one I am meat molding (very messy warning!) next there all askew! at this point pop them in the fridge to chill and take out you're prepared fries.
Now the way I make chips is fool proof you cant have more tastier chips if you follow this exactly! I have learnt this recipe years ago and its to die for!
The Great British Chip:
King Edward Potatoes (we grow our own)
peel and chop potatoes into similar shapes and sizes and place in a cold fridge to chill for 1 hour
take out and Boil for 10 mins take from the boil and place the chips in ice cold water
fry in sunflower oil! voila! the best British chip Ever Guaranteed!
....trust me I am a Housewife!
At this point your chips have been in the fridge chilling for the hour now boil them instantly for 10 mins!
In my picture journal above I am popping the skewers in the oven now on 180 degrees fan oven gas mark 4 for 20 mins as I bring the chips to the boil then I start my Fruity salad!which literally takes me two mins!
My Fruity Salad:
pineapple
sweetcorn
black pepper
lettuce
tomato
cucumber
sweet peppers
olive oil, pepper,salt and lemon to dress
additionally if time permits, add to the lettuce homemade mayonnaise, a handful of chopped mango,grated carrot, apple,olives raisins, celery a pinch of nutmeg yummy!
So firstly the chips boil in the saucepan for 10 then I shallow fried (I hate deep frying unless i really have to and you should for the ultimate British chip really its tradition!)
The skewers are ready now so I made a sticky glaze literally in a bowl of :
smoky BBQ sauce
2 teaspoons of brown sugar
honey
mustard
mix!
add to the skewers plate up you're salad and a healthy dollop of coleslaw (I prefer home made but hey its Tuesday.. in January- don't judge me! ;)
plate up you're meal, make it presentable, my husband always likes to see what i have done to his meal with the presentation!
LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK!
try it out, or simply cast you're comments below I would love to know what you thing about our midweek supper!
Thanks
Lastly plate it up neatly for the family and serve with love!
Its not about engorging on the most glamorous food all the time its mid January after such a busy Christmas and a holiday abroad were hardly eating steak at this time of year, but its the little things with big presentation that matter and the heart and soul that goes into what you do for your family.
