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Kofta - (Lambless)

Kofta - (Lambless)

We’ve arrived at “K”  in our Vegetarian Alphabet for fun gig. So Koftas seemed like fun. This is a totally made up recipe, but all recipes were made up by somebody at one time or another.

Ingredients:-

100g of Mung Beans
100g of Brown Lentils
Gram Flour
Dried Parsley
1 medium Onion, finely chopped
Ground Coriander
Cumin
Chilli powder
Garam Masala
2 cloves of Garlic, grated
Dried Ginger
Salt & Pepper
Oil to grill
1 tsp of Bicarbonate of Soda

Method:-

(1) Soak the Mung Beans and Lentils overnight
(2) Drain and rinse and boil with the Bicarbonate of Soda for 20 minutes.
(3) Drain again and set aside to cool.
(4) Mix the Gram Flour, Parsley, Onion, Coriander, Cumin, Chilli powder, Garam Masala, Garlic, Dried Ginger and Salt & Pepper in a large bowl.
(5) When the Beans and Lentils have drained and cooled pulse them a couple of times in a blender. You are looking for something slightly lumpy. Not a mush!
(6) Mix everything together and add Gram Flour if required so that you have a consistency which you can form around a skewer.
(7) Form around skewers to make your Koftas about an inch (2.5cm) think.
(8) Grill or Griddle turning regularly until your Koftas browned on all sides and heated through.

We served ours on a bed of boiled Rice with a Yogurt, Mint and Cucumber dip, Plum and Ginger Chutney, plus Coleslaw.

 

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Chicken Liver Stir-Fry

When there’s 500g of Chicken Livers with a 33p discount sticker on it, you have to be inventive…..

So an 80p box of Chinese Stir-Fry bits, some Rice Noodles and a few bits and bobs from the cupboards and 20 minutes later we had this…

Ingredients:-

Chicken Livers
Milk
Breadcrumbs (Gluten free in our case)
Flour (Gluten free in our case)
Garlic Salt
Onion Salt
Mustard Powder
Black Pepper
Mixed Herbs
Chilli flakes
Rice Noodles
Stir-Fry Pack
Oil

Method:-

(1) Add Garlic Salt, Onion Salt, Mustard Powder, Black Pepper, Mixed Herbs and Chilli flakes to Milk and soak the Chicken livers.
(2) Add Garlic Salt, Onion Salt, Mustard Powder, Black Pepper, Mixed Herbs and Chilli flakes, Bread Crumbs to the Flour and mix well.
(3) Give the Livers a good hour in the Milk mixture.
(4) Dredge the Livers in the Flour coating and set aside.
(5) In a large frying pan or Wok fry the Stir-Fry ingredients.
(6) Boil a kettle full of water.
(7) Heat the deep fat Fryer.
(8) Heat a large pan of salted water.
(9) In a separate frying pan fry the livers in a little Oil, turning occasionally.
(10) Drop ½ of the Noodles in the boiling water for a minute or so.  Then drain and set aside.
(11) Pop the remaining Noodles in the fryer for a few seconds so that they puff up. Set aside to drain on kitchen paper.
(12) Run the Noodles through with boiling water so that they separate.
(13) Plate with the Noodles at the bottom, the Stir-Fry veg over the top, the crispy Chicken Livers and then dress with the crispy Noodles.

All in all for a cost of less than £3 for us and Tigger the Cat this was an outstanding meal!

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