It’s time to bring this quinoa cooked in business to a close
That doesn’t mean I’m giving up on quinoa or that I’m going to stop mentioning quinoa. That would be crazy. But I’m not going to make a big deal anymore about cooking quinoa in various animal fats, viz., beef, lamb, pork and poultry fat.
Tonight I made a meatloaf and used regular beef mince which means it’s not lean and there’s more beef fat in it. I also added some butter, which is made from cream from bovine milk. So another form of beef fat.
Quinoa cooked in beef fat
Recipe Type: Dinner
Cuisine: Australian
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Serves: 1
Ingredients
- 500 g Regular beef mince
- ⅓ cup Quinoa
- 1 tbsp shredded Parsley
- 1 tbsp shredded Mint
- 1 tbsp shredded Coriander
- 1 sliced Jalapeño pepper
- 1 sliced Red chili
- ½ tsp Ground pepper
- ½ tsp Sea salt
- 50 g Butter
- 100 g Smoked cheddar cheese
- 1 Egg
- 1 tbsp Worcestershire sauce
- Lime zest 1 lime
- Lime juice 1 lime
Instructions
- In a large bowl add everything and with your hands mix it all together except for the butter and cheese
- Put a layer of meat mixture in the bottom of a pyrex bowl
- Add a nice big wedge of butter and thick slices of smoked cheddar cheese
- Put the remaining meat mixture on top and add more butter and cheese
- Cook in an oven at 150 °C for 45 minutes
- Allow the meatloaf to rest for 15 minutes
- Slice and serve with salad
- Shoot a photograph
- Eat the meal
- Wash the dishes
- Write the recipe
- Blog (verb)
The pics do a lot of talking Gary-it looks really good! I like colourful dinners too 🙂
Thanks Lorraine. I reckon colour makes dinner taste better 🙂
How about putting a nice slab of pork belly over some quinoa and letting the fat melt into the quinoa. Or lamb. Lamb would be good.
Thanks John
Pork https://yummylummy.com/2015/03/12/blogging/cooking-quinoa-in-pork-fat/
Lamb https://yummylummy.com/2015/03/17/blogging/quinoa-cooked-in-lamb-fat/
We think so much alike
This might be a silly question, but did you cook the quinoa before adding to the meat or add it uncooked?
No, I just put it in uncooked when I was mixing everything in the mince. My aim was to make a wet mixture and during the cooking the quinoa would absorb a lot of the moisture. It did 🙂
How about in duck fat with duck confit or foie gras? Just a suggestion. Hmmmm I wonder. 🙂
Mmm…I love duck. I may save that for a special occasion 🙂