Layered Casserole with Beef, Cabbage and Potato

This is a layered casserole that can work as vegetarian dish, a side dish or a one pot meal


Ingredients:
500gms meat of your choice (Optional use mushrooms instead of meat)
1/2 head cabbage
shredded and
5-6 large potatoes (I use yellow potatoes)
2 large carrots
1 med onion
pasata
Salt, pepper, coriander, Vegeta or any of your favorite spices
Oil to saute


Cut meat in med-small pieces. Add salt, pepper, coriander. Cook until ready.

Slice cabbage into short strips. Add spices to your taste. Saute for about 15 min.
Slice onion into small cubes. Peel and grate carrots. Saute until golden color.

Mix together with cabbage.



Preheat oven to 180c.
Slice potatoes.  Add salt, pepper.


Make layers: first meat or mushrooms, potatoes then cabbage. Or mince meat and put it on top. Pour pasata to cover it all. Cover and bake up to an hour or until potatoes are ready.
Enjoy!!!

Bubble and Squeak

This was for meatless Monday a new thing in our house designed to encourage eating more vegetables.

Cook about 450 gms mash potato

Saute one diced onion until translucent
Prepare a generous serving of spinach and cut finely

Mix both through the mashed potato with 150gms grated cheese

Form into patties and refrigerate for about an hour

Heat some oil and fry the potato cake until golden.

Serve with vegetables and gravy.

Spinach and Corn Pasta

A quick and easy pasta dish.

Cook the spinach or silver beet
Add one can creamed corn
1 tsp crushed garlic
1tbs miso
Salt and pepper
Milk and corn starch

Warm and stir until thickened

Quinoa Vege Loaves

In a small saucepan boil 1/2 cup of rinsed white quinoa 10-12 min then allow to cool

Saute in olive oil
1 diced onion
2 diced carrots
1 minced garlic clove
Mince 100gms of mushrooms in a food processor
Combine with vegetarian meat I used sanitarium mince

Transfer to a mixing bowl and add 2 eggs and ketchup

Shape the mixture into individual loaves top with ketchup

Place in a preheated oven 200c for 30 - 40 minutes until a light crust forms

Serve with mash and gravy

Asian Tuna with Coconut Rice and Greens

This recipe is adapted from Jamie Oliver's 15 Minutes. Well worth looking at for quick healthy and tasty food.

Start by cooking some coconut rice, for this he suggests Basmarti.

Take two Tuna steaks and season with green tea, sesame seeds, salt and pepper.

Sear in olive oil

Remove and set aside

Meanwhile chop

1 pak choy
1 bunch asparagus
Broccoli florets
1 chilli
1clove garlic
Then cook through in the frypan
Season with sesame oil and soy sauce

Serve with rice and cashews garnish with coriander

Marinated Steak on Rice

500gms of beef strips

Marinate for 4 hours in
Mirren, 10 chopped thai chillies, 2 sliced lemongrass stalks, white section only, 1 tbs fish sauce, 2tbs light soy, 2tsp brown sugar, 2 tbs lime juice

Cook quickly on high heat

Serve on jasmine rice

Garnish with coriander and cashews

Miso Eggplant with Tofu

Modified this from SMH food section.

Cook 2 eggplants in an oven at 220c

In a jug blend 100ml of water, 2 tbs miso paste, sesame oil and vegetable oil 1 tbs of each
Add half a block of silken tofu - blend into a sauce

Allow  the eggplant to cool and remove the skin, cut into thin strips.

Place the miso in a baking dish and cover with the tofu sauce

Cut the remaining tofu into cubes and sprinkle over the eggplant

Cut 5cm of fresh ginger and 5 garlic cloves likewise, brown gently sprinkle over mixture

Serve on rice with spring onion finely sliced.