This week I made turkey rissoles. I’ve never bought minced turkey before so spent ages looking for a recipe incorporating the Asian flavours we like.
Like most rissoles recipes everything could be mixed in one bowl. I doubled the ingredients and made two lots of the mixture. The recipe used a 450gm packet of minced turkey, the packets I bought were 500gm (1lb)
TURKEY RISSOLES
based on a recipe from allrecipes.com.au
INGREDIENTS
- 500gm minced turkey
- 1/4 cup fine dry breadcrumbs
- 1 egg
- 2 tablespoons minced spring onions
- 1 clove garlic minced
- 1 teaspoon minced fresh ginger
- 2 tablespoons soy sauce ( I use low salt)
- 1 tablespoon oil ( I use EVOO)
- 2 tablespoons chopped parsley to serve
METHOD
1. In a large bowl mix the turkey mince with breadcrumbs, egg, spring onion, garlic, ginger and soy sauce. Shape into 9 rissoles, or to your preferred size.
2. Heat the oil in a frying pan over medium heat and cook on each side for 5 minutes, although I found they took longer. Garnish with parsley.
I used the pan scrapings to make a gravy, added some seasoning and when I re-heated it, a generous splash of white wine.
The double mixture made 18 meatballs which resulted in two meals for my family of three.
It’s been cold and wet here for a few days so I made a tray of roasted potato, kumara (sweet potato), carrot and red onion sprinkled with fresh rosemary.
The aroma coming the oven while the vegetables and especially the rosemary were roasting was very tempting. Next time I’ll add more rosemary as it was lovely with everything.
I divided the cooked patties in half and heated one lot and put the other half in the fridge. While the patties were heating I steamed some broccoli and reheated the gravy adding some seasoning and served the roasted potato, kumara, red onion and carrot and steamed broccoli in the bowls and then added the patties and poured on the gravy.
This was a delicious dinner, especially on a cold and wet night.
A kilo (2lb) of turkey mince makes two meals for three people. I made 18 meatballs, more than suggested in the recipe, but I used more turkey mince, too, as I bought two 500gm (1lb) packages. I doubled up on all of the other ingredients and the mixture was a good consistency.
The second meal was the remaining patties heated and served in sandwich press toasted rolls spread with sriracha mayonnaise, some cos lettuce leaves and snow peas out of the garden, all accompanied by a little bowl of Asian dipping sauce. It was very good and I’ll be making it again.
UPDATE. No minced turkey available this week so I bought minced chicken and the rissoles are really tasty. Again I made a double mixture (1kg or 2lbs minced meat) and will serve the ones in a basil tomato sauce (left) with pasta and snap peas out of the garden and the second lot (right) I made a gravy from pan scrapings, cornflour, some chicken stock and water then poured it over the rissoles and I will serve these with mashed potatoes and steamed vegetables.
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