Beef Sausage

Beef Sausage

Ingredients:
½ kilo ground beef
4 pieces sausages
1 red pepper (finely chopped)
1 carrot (finely grated)
1 cup fresh bread crumbs
1 teaspoon chili powder
1 teaspoon beef seasoning
Salt and pepper

Procedure:

In a large mixing bowl, mix ground beef with red pepper, carrot, bread crumbs, chili powder, beef seasoning, salt and pepper. Combine all the ingredients together by tossing and squeezing the meat with hands until all the flavors are well distributed.

Place aluminum foil on a flat working surface. Place a handful of meat mixture on the foil and flatten the mixture evenly. Place 1 sausage at the center and start rolling the meat. Wrap the meat with the foil. Bake for 30 minutes at 350o C.

When meat is done, allow to cool at room temperature. Remove the foil and slice into 1 inch thick. Serve with mashed potato and garnish with parsley.

Beef Shawarma

Beef shawarma

This meal reminds me of Abu Dhabi where shawarma is very popular sandwich. It’s also becoming popular in SM nowadays where you can see people lining up for shawarma. Since hubby and I both have Middle Eastern influence in food, we often have shawarma at home, once in a while.

Ingredients:

Flat bread
Beef steak (sliced thinly)
Cucumber (sliced thinly)
Tomatoes (sliced thinly)
Onion (caramelized)
Hummus sauce

To make flat bread:
1 cup flour (sifted)
1 tsp. salt
¼ cup water

Mix salt and flour in a mixing bowl. Add 1 Tablespoon water at a time while mixing until it forms rough dough. Add water if it’s too dry, this depends of the strength of the flour you are using, add more water if necessary. Knead the dough in a floured flat surface for about 3 minutes or until dough becomes smooth and elastic. Form dough into sausage shape and cut 1 inch thick. Form each into a small ball and flatten with a rolling pin. Cook over a hot pan until dark spots start to form. Flip over to cook the other side of the flat bread.

To make hummus sauce
1 can chickpeas
¼ cup olive oil
2 teaspoons ground cumin seeds
Pinch of ground cinnamon
3 teaspoons lemon juice
Salt & pepper

Place all the ingredients in a food processor or blender except olive oil. Blitz and slowly add olive oil in a thin stream while machine is running. Keep the machine running until mixture becomes smooth.

To assemble the sandwich, spread hummus sauce on flatbread, add meat, cucumber and cooked onion according to liking.

Beef Steak

Beef Steak

Its been a while I’ve been trying to get a perfect medium rare steak, for once and for all, I finally made it. At first I thought it was the way of cutting, or maybe the cut of the meat itself, or the pan is not hot enough, or I cooked the meat too long..etc. But lately, I got a perfect cut of beef without sinew and without fat. Afraid of having the same mistakes again like cutting the meat into thin slices before cooking, I cooked the whole piece of meat. I succeeded finally! Medium rare, crisp on the outside and pink inside! This beef really made me happy for lunch! Served with vegetable rice.