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Polenta Pie

 

It’s the last of our last of our "Around The World for £4 or Less" recipes. So we’ve been to Zambia. This is not quite the recipe we expected, but we couldn’t find Crocodile meat locally within budget!

Ingredients:-

300g Polenta
350ml of Stock
100g Margarine
1 large Onion, sliced
1 clove of Garlic, minced
225g cooked minced Beef,  mixed vegetables (Other options in the recipe were cubed Chicken, Lentils etc.)
1 tbsp on Flour
A Handful of chopped fresh Coriander
½ tsp dried Basil
Juice of a Lemon
Salt and Pepper
Oil

Method:-

(1) Add the Stock to 350ml of water and bring to the boil.
(2) In a bowl add a little of the Stock at a time to the Polenta and stir or whisk making sure there are no lumps.
(3) Reserve a little of the Stock.
(4) Return the Polenta to a pan and let it sit to absorb the liquid.
(5) Prepare and chop the vegetables into bite sized pieces.
(6) Fry the Onions and Garlic with a little Oil and Margarine.
(7) Add the meat and fry until browned.
(8) Add the vegetables and fry until they still have a little bite. We used Potatoes Swede Carrots and Peas.
(9) Add the remaining Stock, Flour, chopped Coriander, dried Basil, and Lemon Juice.
(10) Season with Salt & Pepper and simmer gently.
(11) Grease an oven proof dish and add 2/3 of the Polenta to the bottom and bake for 10 minutes at 180c
(12) Above this add the vegetable and meat mix.
(13) Add the remaining Polenta and run a fork on the top into lines.
(14) Return to the oven and bake for 30 minutes at 180c.

We served ours with a Gluten free Bread crumbed vegetable tray bake.

 

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That’s 2 x £2.49 Rump Steaks from B&M given a really good beating and seasoned! Although they are supposedly 21 day aged, we’ve found them to be very variable in the past. Sometimes cut alone the grain of the meat and sometimes banded with what I used to call ‘Trim’ in the butchers, gristle! But on this occasion we struck gold!

Ingredients:-

2 Rump Steaks. Cut into two, trimmed and hammered with a meat hammer
2 Tsp of Peri-Peri seasoning Rub
3 Tbsp of Tomato Puree
1 Lemon, juiced
2 Tbsp of White Wine Vinegar
2 Cloves of Garlic, minced
2 Tbsp of Olive Oil
1 Tsp of Sugar
1 Tsp of Salt
1 Bay Leaf
4 Bread Rolls (Gluten free for us)
1 Large Tomato, sliced
1 Red Chilli, finely chopped
3 Tbsp of Margarine
4 Tsp of Chilli Chutney (Sue’s creation)
4 Tsp of Mayonnaise
Oil to fry

Method:-

(1) That you frustration out of the Steak. Beat it to death with a meat hammer!
(2) Cut into suitable sized pieces to fit in your bun.
(3) Rub the Steak with a little Oil on all sides and then rub with the Peri-Peri seasoning Rub.
(4) Make up the marinade with the Lemon Juice, Olive Oil, Sugar, Salt, Garlic, Tomato Puree, Bay Leaf and White Wine Vinegar.
(5) Pour over the Steak and place in the fridge, covered, for 2 hours.
(6) Remove the Bat Leaf.
(7) Heat Oil in a frying pan to a high heat and flash fry the Steak for 2 minutes on each side. Ours was still rare in the middle.
(8) Remove and allow to rest.
(9) Toast the buns lightly on the cut sides.
(10) Combine the Margarine and chopped Chilli, spreading over the toasted buns.
(11) Return to the grill cut side up so the the Margarine melts into the Buns.
(12) Assemble the ‘Burger’ with Mayonnaise, Steak, Red Onions, Tomato slices and Chilli Chutney.

We simply served ours with hand cut chips. This flavour combination really packs a punch! Enjoy….


 

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