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Turkey Meatballs and Italian Style Sauce

Turkey Meatballs and Italian Style Sauce, recipe, eat well on universal credit

This Yellow Sticker pack of Turkey Breast mince was £1.29. Probably the least inspiring and dry mince you can get? Well actually not.

Meatball Ingredients:-

750g of Turkey Mince
50g of Gluten free bread, wuzzed into Breadcrumbs
25g of Italian Style hard Cheese, grated
1 Onion, finelt diced
1 Egg, beaten
3 Cloves of Garlic, minced
1 Tbsp of fresh Parsley, chopped
1 Tbsp of fresh (Foraged!) Chives, chopped
1 Tbsp of Milk (Lactose free for us)
2 Tbsp of Margarine
1 Tsp of Olive Oil
Salt & Pepper to season

Sauce Ingredients:-

1 Tin of Chopped Tomatoes + Water
1 Tbsp of Tomato Puree
2 Tbsp of Red Chilli Sauce (Sue’s secret, until I type the recipe up!)
1 Onion, diced
3 Cloves of Garlic, minced
1 Tsp of Mixed Dried Herbs
Oil to fry
Salt & Pepper to season

Sufficient Spaghetti to serve two, cooked according to the packet (Gluten free for us)

Method:-

(1) Combine all the Meatball ingredients and roll into small balls.
(2) Heat Oil in a frying pan on a medium heat and fry the meatballs until golden brown on all side and cooked through, turning as required.
(3) In a separate pan add Oil and fry the Onions until softened.
(4) Add the Garlic and fry for a further minute.
(5) Stir in the Tomato Puree, Red Chilli Sauce, mixed Herbs and season with Salt & Pepper.
(6) Add the Tinned Tomatoes and half a Tin of Water and allow to simmer for 20 minutes, stirring occasionally.
(7) Cook the Spaghetti and drain.
(8) Serve the Spaghetti an plates, top with half of your Sauce.
(9) Add the Meatballs and then dress with the remaining Sauce.
(10) Garnish with Grated Italian Style Hard Cheese and fresh Parsley.

It fed both of us, Smooh the Cat and the Foxes. Not bad going and I’m guessing all humans and animals enjoyed it. There was certainly nothing left in the morning!

 

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Monster Burger recipeStrictly speaking we broke our self imposed £4 a day budget, but we will be snacking on burger all day today as well! This was a bit of fun and you would probably not really want everything Sue added. But if you do go for it!
 
Monster (Gluten Free) Burger Bun.
 
Ingredients:-
 
240g Plain (GF) flour
2 tsp Baking powder
½ tsp Salt
240ml Milk
4 tbls Mayonnaise
Chilli flakes
Garlic Salt
Onion Salt
Grated Italian style Cheese
Mixed herbs
 
Method:-
 
(1) Mix all the dough ingredients in a bowl.
(2) Pre heat the oven to 200c
(3) Cook at 200c in a deep sided large bun tray for 20 minutes.
(4) Allow to cool on a wire stand.
 
Monster Burger.
 
Ingredients:-
 
500g minced Beef
Chilli flakes
2 cloves of Garlic grated
Onion salt
Paprika
Black Pepper
 
To dress Ingredients:-
 
Iceberg Lettuce chopped
Tomatoes sliced
Red Onion sliced
Mayonnaise
Mushrooms sliced
Chorizo sliced
Edam Cheese slices
 
Onion Rings:-
 
Ingredients:-
 
Batter mix (We use Gluten free)
1 large white Onion sliced
 
Method:-
 
(1) Rub the Onion in the dry batter mix.
(2) Add the required liquid ingredients and mix your batter.
(3) Coat the Onion Rings in the batter in manageable numbers and deep fry.
(4) Remove and lay on kitchen roll to drain.
 
Method and assembly:-
 
(1) Cut the bun in half horizontally.
(2) Mix all the burger ingredients and form 4 large burgers by hand.
(3) Gently fry the burgers turning regularly until they are cooked through but avoid over cooking as they will dry out.
(4) Fry the Mushrooms, Red Onion and Chorizo
(5) Grill the bun with the outside up until lightly browned.
(6) Spread Mayonnaise on the bottom of the bun.
(7) Add layers of Lettuce, Sliced Red Onion and finally sliced Tomatoes
(8) Add you burgers
(9) Add the fried Mushrooms, Red Onion and Chorizo
(10) Add slices of Cheese to cover.
(11) Place the bun lid on top.
(12) Drive a knife or wooden burger skewer through and place your Onion Rings over it.
 
We served outs with hand cut chips, Celeriac Coleslaw and Tomato sauce to dip.
 

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