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Halloumi

Halloumi

“H” in our Vegetarian Alphabet was Halloumi. Traditionally Halloumi is made with a mixture of Goat’s and Sheep’s milk. We’ve only a small balcony and the Council would probably not be happy about us grazing a mixed flock on the communal lawns. So Full fat Cows milk did the job.

This was certainly a “Lock Down” time filling gig and realistically it’s probably not worth doing at home normally for the return weight for weight. But we love a challenge. The process is to heat 4l of milk to exactly 32c add Rennet, hold over a water bath at exactly 32c for 45 minutes. Cut the curds, salt and then dehydrate in the fridge overnight. Sounds easy? It took us 4 hours to get to the fridge stage!

But it worked and did taste like the real thing. We grilled some, made crispy Halloumi balls out of the bits we’d broken by being a bit heavy handed and also made roasted Rosecoco Bean and Carrot fritters. A few other bits and bobs and we had a very tasty Buffet style dinner.

 

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Hmong Sausages recipe, eat well on universal credit

This recipe is from a Vietnamese Website. See we do follow recipes once in a while!

Ingredients:-

2.2Kg of Pork shoulder, roughly chopped
2 Tbsp of Salt
1 head garlic, peeled and chopped
1 teaspoon ground Black pepper
2 Thumbs of fresh Ginger, chopped
1 Onion, chopped
100g of of Fresh Coriander
5 Small / Hot Green Chillies
The Juice from 2 Limes
2 tablespoons fish sauce
50g of Oil
Water

Method:-

(1) Mix everything in a large bowl.
(2) Add enough water so that once it’s been through the mincer the mix is wet enough to extrude into Sausage Casings.
(3) Place a chopping board over the sink and turn the cold tap on slowly. You need quite a bit of water so you can massage the filling into the Casings. It’s a two person job.
(4) Add the Extruder nozzle to the mincer.
(5) While one person plunges the mix through the mincer, the other massages the filling down the length of the Casings.
(6) Crimp and twist into Sausages.

We packed these in portions a couple of weeks ago to freeze. Last night we had them as part of an all day breakfast gig. The texture was great. But we both thought the Coriander overwhelmed the other flavours. But you can’t will them all.

 

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