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Surf & Turf recipe

Sat looking lonesome in the Yellow Stick fridge I spotted a couple of packs of Ox Cheek on Thursday. Perhaps not the conventional foundation for a Surf & Turf. But when were we conventional?

Ingredients for the ‘Turf’:-

2 Ox Cheeks, cubed
2 Carrots, batoned
2 Medium Onions, diced
2 Cloves of Garlic, minced
500ml of Beef Stock
500ml of Red Wine Stock
2 Tbsp of Tomato Puree
100g of (Gluten free) Plain Flour
1 Tsp Dried Thyme
2 Bay Leaves
1 Tsp of Red Wine Vinegar
Olive Oil & A nob of Butter / Margarine
1 Tsp of Oyster Sauce
Salt & Pepper to seasoned

Method:-

(1) Flour the Ox Cheeks and fry to brown on all sides in the Olive Oil & Butter.
(2) Remove and set aside.
(3) Season the Onions with Salt And Pepper and fry until translucent and then add the Garlic and stir.
(4) Add the Carrots and fry to soften.
(5) Stir in the Beef and Red Wine stock.
(6) Stir in the Tomato Puree.
(7) Put the Ox Cheeks back in.
(8) Add the Thyme and Bay Leaves and Oyster Sauce.
(9) Simmer for 10 minutes and then transfer to a casserole dish.
(10) Pop in the oven and cook at 160c for about 4 hours until the Ox Cheeks is very tender.

Ingredients for the ‘Surf’:-

200g of King Prawns
2 Eggs
Plain Flour (Gluten free for us)
Soda Water
Garlic Salt
Onion Salt
Turmeric

Additional flour
1 Egg, whisked for an Egg wash

Method:-

(1) Mix the batter ingredients with enough Soda Water to make a reasonably stiff batter.
(2) Heat the fryer to 180c.
(3) Dunk the Prawns individually in Egg wash and the Flour.
(4) Dip in the batter to coat evenly.
(5) Fry individually and once browned slightly drain on kitchen paper.

To serve we made a Spring Onion mash, added the Ox Cheeks first. Stacked the battered Prawn on top and the poured the casserole over the top. A bit of Peas-shoot salad to dress and ‘Jobs a good un’!  

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OK making your own Sausages might not be everybody’s cup of tea. But we enjoy it and it’s something which requires two sets of hands and therefore results in a good deal of laughter in the kitchen. This can’t be a bad thing?

Ingredients for the Sausages:-

1.4kg of Minced Pork
Salt to season
2 Tubes of Tomato Puree
A good handful of Dried Basil
Water

Method:-

(1) Mix everything in a big bowl.
(2) Fit the extruder attachment the your mincer.
(3) Extruder into casings and twist into Sausages.
(4) Spend another hour cleaning the kitchen, as you’ll have mince all over the place!

Joking aside. This mince was 20% Fat and because we don’t add any ‘Packers’ to our mix the Sausages had quite a dry / grainy texture. The taste was great, but we used the wrong mince.

So while the mincer is within easy reach and has not been lost in the back of the cupboard, I’ve bought a lump of Shoulder which is a much better / fattier cut for Sausages. This afternoon we’re having a go at Hmong Sausage which are flavoured with Ginger, fresh Coriander, Garlic, Lime etc….

The recipe for our Gluten Free Yorkshire Pudding Batter is here


 

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