LAMB MINCE RECIPE'S

Hello everyone- sorry I havn't blogged any recipes in the last couple of days, but now I have to lamb mince recipes that you can try out, which are easy and both take under 45 minutes to prep and cook.

LAMB BURGERS (serves 4 - if you're hungry eat two)

Ingredients for Burgers : - FRESH PACKET OF LAMB MINCE/ OR HALF BAG FROZEN MINCE, garlic 4-5 large cloves, half a large onion, colemans mint sauce, paprika, tspn and half  of flour, burger salad as you wish. Read my step 7 if you want to do it how I do.

1. Take your fresh mince lamb, or frozen mince lamb (probably about 500-600 grams) and put in a large bowl.

2. Chop up garlic finely, and dice half the onion.

3. Put in a good tspn and a half of colemans mint sauce, and a half tspn of paprika, seasoning ( if you dont have a clue, it's rough about a tspn and 1/4 of salt)

4. Mix it all up, and scatter over a tspn and half of flour, this binds the mince well.

5. Split the mixture into 4 equal balls, and shape into burgers, and place on a plate. 

6. Take a frying pan, and put a tablespoon of oil in to coat the surface of the pan. Place the burgers in, on a medium heat, and cook for 4-5 minutes each side. Look for a nice colours on the burgers, they'll charcoal on some parts of the burger, then you can assume they are done. Mince does cook fast, but 10 minutes should be could on a medium to lowish heat.

7. Take your Baps, put in your filling, I find some cheese, then the burger, lettuce, cucumber, tomato, gerkins, mayonnaise and tomato sauce, makes a nice gourmet buger.

TIP : - ADD some fried onions, to make it really gourmet.

BON APETIT - Fun and easy- half n hour. to prep and cook

Spaghetti Bolognese (serves 4 )

Ingredients :-Lamb Mince fresh or frozen (500-600grams), 4 large cloves of garlic, half a large onion, 1 large carrot grated, honey, lemon, colemans mint sauce, paprika, a bit of red chilli powder (optional), can of chopped tomatoes in juice, oregano spaghetti for 4, sea rock salt (normal salt is fine but rock salt is nicer I find)

DON'T FORGET TO TASTE ALONG THE WAY- (NOT THE RAW MEAT- BUT ONCE ITS ALL COOKED, AND THE BOLOGNESE HAS COME TOGETHER)

1. Finely chop garlic, and dice the half an onion. Take a deep pan, and put in a table spoon of olive oil over a medium heat. Put in the diced onion, and then 3 minutes later put in the garlic. Once they have a nice pale golden colour, put in the mince. Fry so the mince goes all brown, and no pink remains.

2. Add the grated carrot, makes the dish slightly healthy, and fry for additional 4 minutes.

3. Add in the tin of tomato, tspn of honey, tspn of paprika, a good pinch of chilli powder (does bring out flavour- does not make it spicy) salt and pepper accordingly to taste, tbsp of lemon juice, and half tspn of oregano, and cook further for 5 minutes. (add some water if it gets to dry), let it simmer into a nice bolognese sauce, it should reduce into a nice meaty sauce-looking for thick rich colour of tomato around the lamb mince.

4.While you wait, Boil water, and put in spaghetti for four people, and cook.

5. Taste your bolognese, what flavours are you getting? You are looking for notes of balanced sweetness and zing. A nice meaty savoury flavour, with a very clean heat, and lemony honey sweetness, but overall still savoury. Put on a low heat let it simmer- or leave to the side.

6.Strain Spaghetti once cooked, and then wash in cool water because this washes away all the starch and stops spaghetti sticking together. Gives you that ultimate slippery feeling of spaghetti bolognese which you want!

7.Now put the spaghetti back in a pan, on low- medium heat, and you can mix in all the bolognese, but what i find is nice to do, is put in about half the bolognese sauce, into the spaghetti, and mix it in. This means flavour gets in and around the spaghetti. Everything is coated, and you can tell if you need any more seasoning etc. This does infuse flavour into the spaghetti. 

8. Serve, with some bolognese on top. (Everyone wins, those that want it on top and not just mixed in- pleases all)

TIP : - Garlic bread is an absolute killer with this dish.


Hope You enjoy it- If you try the recipe - let me know how it went- or did you do something different- let me know =)