Topic: What's for dinner, Josephine?

[loveitspicy]

Nice one Mick

they look great

best, Rich

[Gav Iscon]

Certainly look the dogs dooveries. I may even be able to persuade my son to try them...

[chewytikka]

Food glorious Food

Those eggs look 110% pefect Mr. fried

Good plate of food SR
I would have had the kebab and mint sauce as a nice starter
then tackled the Vindaloo, Rice and Naan

Chicken with Green Peppers in Black Bean Sauce 
One of my all time Chinese TA favourites.

Chicken Tikka Burgers,    Luvvly Jubbly Mick!

Murgh WagaNaga for me tonight
with sweet Kapia peppers and Masala Aloo (SpicyChips) and Pilau



cheers Chewy

[livo]

Some tikka paste, fresh coriander, mix powder, salt and a mix of fresh garlic, green chillies, carrot.
I get this from the same Asian store where I get the chicken.
The garlic, chilli and carrot mix has gone through a fine mincing  process (that sounds wrong) and kept in the fridge for a few hours. During this time a lot of water collects in the bottom of the bowl. The butcher then uses a slotted spoon and drains it before adding some to a plastic bag.
I use about 4 tablespoons of this mix to a kilo of minced chicken.

Simple but delicious.
Cheers
Mick

So is it the carrot / chilli / garlic mix you get from the butcher? or more than that?  Do you have any idea of the ratios?  I've just made a batch but had to guess at quantity.  (1 x medium carrot, 1 x 4" chilli and 3 garlic cloves, all finely grated)

Approximately how much paste and mix powder do you use / kg of chicken mince ?  I won't use much coriander anyway.

Think I'll put some finely sliced shallot / green onion in as well though.

I started straight away. They just look so good.

[Les]

What I want to know, Is how do I stop my home made burgers from shrinking when I cook them? I always end up with a burger half the size, and almost 3 times the thickness. How do you guy's cook your burgers? and keep them the original size? If Any ;D

[DalPuri]

I stayed in a small village in Ireland many years ago. The local butcher's used to sell 7 burgers for a quid and they got bigger when you cooked em!  ;D

I think the trick might be holes Les to keep them from shrinking. Try a lattice pattern with a meat mallet.
Make them twice the size required and press with mallet to create indentations.

[fried]

And cook 'em very rare!

[Les]

I think the trick might be holes Les to keep them from shrinking. Try a lattice pattern with a meat mallet.
Make them twice the size required and press with mallet to create indentations.

Cheers DalPuri
I'll give it a go and see what happens ;D

[Les]

And cook 'em very rare!

Not a chance fried, the missus would kill me, everything must be well done.

[mickdabass]

its probably the lack of horse meat that make them shrink   ;D ;D