We love this for a lazy mince feed Asian beef
Comment on Daily Discussion Thread: đ§đ§đ§ Monday 2 December
Baku@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠agoI think Iâve exhausted my easy dinner allowance for the week. Last night I couldnât be bothered so made French toast for dinner đ
I took out mince meat for tea, but I donât exactly know what Iâm going to do with it just yet. I know how to make meatballs, and thatâs about all Iâve memorized with mince just yet. And Iâm not fond of spaghetti, but do have a few jars of passata in the cupboard
Eagle@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Baku@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Thanks! Alas, I think Iâm missing most of those things. I donât have hoysin or oyster sauce, or actually even garlic
Also, Iâve got no clue what a shallot is
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
1 shallot = half an onion. The rest is close to being bullshit. Once youâre confident in the kitchen, then shallots start to matter, but starting out just use ordinary onion.
TinyBreak@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
its like an onion? but not.
mertn22@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Itâs just a little onion and a touch milder tasting.
TheWitchofThornbury@aussie.zone â¨2⊠â¨weeks⊠ago
Man, youâve got dinner sorted! This is student food from the vault. Known as âsavory minceâ, but thereâs no recipie - you just use what you have on hand as well as the mince.
Fry up a chopped onion (any size) in a couple of tablespoons of oil/fat over medium heat. Add the mince and stir it about with a wooden spoon until it changes colour. Add a cupful of passata and 1 cupful of chopped mixed veg (frozen). Add a generous gloop of hot sauce if you like spicy. Add a splosh of soy sauce. Stir. Let this simmer on low heat while you chop a largish potato into dice, rinse the potato dice under the cold tap and put it in a microwave safe container to blast it in the microwave for 3 mins til nearly done. Stir the potato and blast it for another 2 mins. The sauce is ready when you start to see a bit of oil float to the surface. Stir this back into the mixture before serving.
Put potato in serving bowl and add a generous quantity of the mince mixture on top. Eat with a spoon in front of the screen/text book/whatever.
Substitutions : Add 2 tsps of onion powder or garlic powder (or both) to the mince before frying if you donât happen to have an onion on hand. Add 1 tsp garam masala if you like spice but not heat instead of the hot sauce. Use any mixed diced veg you have in the freezer. Add a bag of spinach and stir it through the mince mixture if you feel you need greens. Or 1 chopped cos lettuce if you donât have spinach. If you arenât using soy sauce, you may like to add some salt.
The cooked mince mixture freezes well, so any leftovers can be stored in a container there and just heated up in the microwave the next time you cbf cooking.
This mince mixture is basic and very flexible - you can use it as pie filling, over pasta or just over hot toast if thatâs your fancy.