"The Beef Thing"

Ok so I tried to make something like this but it failed. It ended up being like this:

Despite the strange looks of the end product the taste was really nice.

Easy to make, delicious to eat. This recipe can be used for meatballs, patties, meatloaf, those kebab things etc.

Ingredients:

400 g of minced beef
120 g of bacon
3-4 gloves of garlic
2 small onions
1 egg
100 g of creme fraiche
½ tsp of dried chillie flakes
½ tsp of chillie powder
½-1 tsp of pepper mix
½ dl of breadcrumbs
1 tsp of olive oil
1 tbsp of BBQ sauce

Instructions:

Cut the bacon into cubes (I, for some reason, prefer the 1x1cm size...) and fry them on a pan until ready. Put a serviette on a plate and let the bacon cool down on the serviette (you get rid of most of the oil).

 

 

Mix creme fraiche, egg, finely chopped onion and garlic and the spices in a bowl. Add the breadcrumbs and mix, let stand for few minutes letting the breadcrumbs soak.

Add the beef and the bacon and mix well but gently. You don't want to mince the beef any more but you want to keep the air in it.

Heat a pan (without oil, there should still be plenty in the mixture...) and place the desired amount of the meat on the hot pan in the desired shape. Cover with a lid. Let it fry for about 3 minutes on both sides or until thoroughly cooked.

Serve with pasta, potatoes, vegetables, salad, the Potato salad or with anything really. By the way, sweet thai chillie sauce and creme fraiche went very well with these!

- Juho