Homemade Keema Curry, General Tso's Meatballs, and Orange Beef with Kale
Okay, by popular request (one or two), it's time for a couple of recipes!
First off, here's keema curry, as done with ground turkey. This recipe came out pretty perfect, at least according to my preferences, so here's the recipe:
1 lb (2-3 medium) sweet onion
4 garlic cloves
2 Tbsp minced ginger
1 lb ground meat
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 lb peas
2 bell peppers, diced (~0.5 lb)
1 can diced tomatoes
Chicken or beef stock
Mix with meat:
1 Tbsp ground cumin
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp turmeric
1 Tbsp curry powder
1 tsp chili powder
Garnish:
1/4 cup flour or bread crumbs (30 mins before serving)
2 tsp ground coriander (mix before serving)
1 fried egg (optional)
Mix dry ingredients (not the garlic or ginger or coriander) with the ground meat, set aside
Chop and caramelize the sweet onions (~40 mins)
Remove the sweet onions to the slow cooker
Cook the ginger and garlic until they turn golden
Add the ground meat, saute, break it up into small bits
Put this in slow cooker with peas, diced bell peppers, and tomatoes, mix well
Cook for 4 hours on low
Mix flour or bread crumbs in 30 mins before serving
Mix coriander in at the end
Garnish with a fried egg if so desired!
This on the other hand is not a completed recipe, but it is progress towards such.
I based it on http://www.thesearchforgeneraltso.com/tso/recipe.html - with some obvious changes. I'll go over the process, but since I'm not 100% pleased with the results, this isn't a formal recipe.
The meatballs are 1 lb ground chicken, 1/2 lb grated zucchini, 1/4 cup panko bread crumbs, 1 egg, 1 Tbsp soy sauce, a "pinch" of freshly ground black pepper, and a few dashes of Trader Joe's 21 Seasoning Salute. Use your preferred poultry seasoning. Stir well, set aside. (in the fridge while you caramelize onions, perhaps)
I caramelized 2 lbs of sweet onions, then set aside half in a baggie, which I froze for later use.
Once the onions were done, I pre-heated the oven to 425 F, then put the meatballs in and turned it down to 350 after 15 minutes, to cook on low for another 45 minutes.
I added some oil to the wok, then caramelized 1 tsp grated/minced ginger, 2 cubes of frozen garlic puree, and some crushed red pepper. Then I added 1/2 lb of carrots and 1/4 cup of chicken stock, steamed it until the carrots were soft, added 3 TBsp of soy sauce, 1 Tbsp of ketchup, 1 Tbsp of honey, poured all these into the food processor, and pureed them together.
This is the part I'm not actually thrilled with. I think I would have done better to just make the veggies on the side, and follow the General Tso's sauce recipe more closely. On the other paw, I didn't need to mess around with corn starch to thicken the recipe, and it did taste pretty good. Pretty spicy, really, toasting the crushed red peppers definitely adds zing.
I'll have to experiment a little more. I think the meatballs are perfect, the sauce just needs work.
And finally, orange beef with carrots, and kale on the side. I tried flavoring the kale with soy sauce, but I think it makes it too... Heavy? Dark? It feels like it needs a light crispy salad on the side with bright flavoring. The orange beef was just a mix of soy sauce and orange marmalade, but tasted quite good.
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First off, here's keema curry, as done with ground turkey. This recipe came out pretty perfect, at least according to my preferences, so here's the recipe:
1 lb (2-3 medium) sweet onion
4 garlic cloves
2 Tbsp minced ginger
1 lb ground meat
1/4 tsp salt
1/2 lb peas
2 bell peppers, diced (~0.5 lb)
1 can diced tomatoes
Chicken or beef stock
Mix with meat:
1 Tbsp ground cumin
2 tsp cinnamon
2 tsp turmeric
1 Tbsp curry powder
1 tsp chili powder
Garnish:
1/4 cup flour or bread crumbs (30 mins before serving)
2 tsp ground coriander (mix before serving)
1 fried egg (optional)
Mix dry ingredients (not the garlic or ginger or coriander) with the ground meat, set aside
Chop and caramelize the sweet onions (~40 mins)
Remove the sweet onions to the slow cooker
Cook the ginger and garlic until they turn golden
Add the ground meat, saute, break it up into small bits
Put this in slow cooker with peas, diced bell peppers, and tomatoes, mix well
Cook for 4 hours on low
Mix flour or bread crumbs in 30 mins before serving
Mix coriander in at the end
Garnish with a fried egg if so desired!
This on the other hand is not a completed recipe, but it is progress towards such.
I based it on http://www.thesearchforgeneraltso.com/tso/recipe.html - with some obvious changes. I'll go over the process, but since I'm not 100% pleased with the results, this isn't a formal recipe.
The meatballs are 1 lb ground chicken, 1/2 lb grated zucchini, 1/4 cup panko bread crumbs, 1 egg, 1 Tbsp soy sauce, a "pinch" of freshly ground black pepper, and a few dashes of Trader Joe's 21 Seasoning Salute. Use your preferred poultry seasoning. Stir well, set aside. (in the fridge while you caramelize onions, perhaps)
I caramelized 2 lbs of sweet onions, then set aside half in a baggie, which I froze for later use.
Once the onions were done, I pre-heated the oven to 425 F, then put the meatballs in and turned it down to 350 after 15 minutes, to cook on low for another 45 minutes.
I added some oil to the wok, then caramelized 1 tsp grated/minced ginger, 2 cubes of frozen garlic puree, and some crushed red pepper. Then I added 1/2 lb of carrots and 1/4 cup of chicken stock, steamed it until the carrots were soft, added 3 TBsp of soy sauce, 1 Tbsp of ketchup, 1 Tbsp of honey, poured all these into the food processor, and pureed them together.
This is the part I'm not actually thrilled with. I think I would have done better to just make the veggies on the side, and follow the General Tso's sauce recipe more closely. On the other paw, I didn't need to mess around with corn starch to thicken the recipe, and it did taste pretty good. Pretty spicy, really, toasting the crushed red peppers definitely adds zing.
I'll have to experiment a little more. I think the meatballs are perfect, the sauce just needs work.
And finally, orange beef with carrots, and kale on the side. I tried flavoring the kale with soy sauce, but I think it makes it too... Heavy? Dark? It feels like it needs a light crispy salad on the side with bright flavoring. The orange beef was just a mix of soy sauce and orange marmalade, but tasted quite good.
This entry was originally posted at https://tuftears.dreamwidth.org/193703.html. Please comment there using OpenID.