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How do I cook duck fat roast potatoes?

In general, this is how to prepare duck fat spuds

  • Preheat the oven to 200 °C.
  • Place cut potatoes in a saucepan of cold salted water and bring to the boil.
  • Reduce heat to medium and cook for 5 minutes or until par-boiled.
  • Drain, then return to the pan and shake well over medium heat to dry out and rough up the edges (this will help them crisp up when roasting).
  • Place the duck fat in a roasting pan, then place in the oven for 5 minutes to heat.
  • Remove from the oven, carefully add potato to duck fat and gently toss to coat.
  • Return to the oven and roast, turning twice, for 45 minutes or until golden and crisp.
  • Sprinkle with salt and serve.

For my dinner, I added some red onion which went very crispy like chips. I also cooked them in chilli flakes, mixed dried herbs, salt and pepper.

I served my roast spuds and onion chips on a bed of pearl barley couscous.

 
Duck fat roast potatoes

Panko and fried shallot crumbed beef burger with pearl barley couscous

Last week I was watching my favourite YouTube cook, viz., Hilah Johnson from Hilah Cooking. Her most recent recipe was panko and fried onion crumbed pork chops. This inspired me to make panko and fried shallot crumbed beef burger with pearl barley couscous.

I mean what’s not to like about Hilah. She’s Texan with a cool accent and she also spent some time living in New Zealand and Australia.

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So what do you need to make these crumbed beef burgers

  • Beef burgers from Coles (or wherever you shop). I couldn’t be bothered making them from scratch. You can do that if you like.
  • Frozen White Wings pearl barley couscous
  • Plain flour
  • Mixed dried herbs
  • Smoked paprika
  • Egg
  • Dijon mustard
  • Panko bread crumbs
  • Fried shallots

How do you put it all together?

  1. In a small food processor crumb the fried shallots
  2. Combine the panko bread crumbs and put into a bowl
  3. Crack an egg and whisk in some Dijon mustard
  4. Add some plain flour to a bowl and then add some mixed dried herbs and smoked paprika (the proportions are up to you)
  5. Coat the beef burgers in the flour and then the egg wash and then finally the crumb mix
  6. Gently shallow fry in grapeseed oil the crumbed beef burgers for about 3 minutes each side and place on absorbent paper to drain the burger of excess oil
  7. Microwave the pearl barley couscous for 150 seconds

How do you prepare the dish for a photograph?

  1. Spread the pearl barley couscous onto a plate
  2. Place the crumbed beef burger on top
  3. Add some barbecue sauce and Dijon mustard to taste
  4. Shoot a photograph
  5. Eat the meal
  6. Wash the dishes
  7. Write the recipe
  8. Blog and vlog (verbs)
crumbed beef burger
Panko and fried shallot crumbed beef burger with pearl barley couscous

How did it taste?

Bloody superb. The crumb was really nice. Two thumbs up Hilah 👍👍  The crumbed beef burger was really good.

Final words

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Squeal and peel also known as pork and prawns

What does “pork and prawns” bring to mind? You’ve heard of “surf and turf” and “reef and beef”. Maybe pork and prawns should be known as “squeal and peel”!

In keeping with the philosophy of Yummy Lummy, i.e., simple and easy to prepare meals for one, “squeal and peel” is made up of three quick and convenient processes. The pork was already cooked by Coles and just needed reheating. The pearl barley couscous was frozen in a ready for microwave oven plastic bag. The raw prawns were already peeled and ready to cook.

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What you need for this squeal and peel?

  • I used a Coles Australian Pork Slow Cooked packet of ribs
  • Birdseye frozen pearl barley couscous
  • 100 g of raw peeled prawns from the Coles delicatessen

[I do my grocery shopping at Coles. Coles does not support or sponsor me in any form.]

How do you put it all together?

  1. The pork is cooked (really reheated) in two parts. It requires an initial 20 minutes at 180 °C and then a further 25 minutes at 180 °C after pulling apart the ribs and basting them in the sauce.
  2. The pearl barley couscous is cooked in the microwave for 2 minutes and 30 seconds.
  3. I cooked the prawns in hot melted butter for three minutes in a closed nonstick frying pan.

How did I prepare for the photograph?

  1. I put the pearl barley couscous into the bottom of a large white bowl.
  2. The prawns were added with a spoon and then the heated butter poured over the prawns and couscous.
  3. A brace of ribs is added and the bowl is ready to shoot a photograph.
  4. Eat the meal partly with a spoon and mostly with fingers.
  5. Wash the dishes.
  6. Write the recipe.
  7. Make a nice picture using Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop.
  8. Blog and Vlog (verbs)
"Squeal and peel" "pork and prawns"
Coles slow-cooked pork ribs and prawns with pearl barley couscous

How did it taste?

Bloody amazing.

I’d happily recommend squeal and peel to anyone.

Final words

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