Very easy to make but delicious and quick further use for hamburger meat as a meal. If you cant find the variety of lettuce i used(description below), cabbage leaves would suffice i suppose.
Ingredients: [‘instant mashed potatoes’, ‘water’, ‘milk’, ‘hamburger’, ‘cumin’, ‘curry powder’, ‘milk’, ‘onion’, ‘leek’, ‘lettuce leaves’, ‘margarine’, ‘black pepper’, ‘vegetable oil’, ‘dijon mustard’]
Quantity of Ingredients: [“115 g instant mashed potatoes”,”500 g water”,”200 g milk”,”100 g hamburger”,”3/4 tablespoon cumin”,”1 1/4 tablespoons curry powder”,”150 g milk (further)”,”1/2 large onion”,”1/2 leek”,”8 lettuce leaves (semi cabbage variety)”,”1 tablespoon margarine”,”1 teaspoon black pepper”,”1 tablespoon vegetable oil”,”1 1/2 tablespoons Dijon mustard”]
Number of Servings: 1
Steps: [“Mix the Packet of Mashed Potato Mix using 500ml of water and 200ml of milk or however your instructions instruct or make fresh from potatoes. You will be using half. Save the rest for tomorrow’s meal.”, ‘Dice the onions and cut up the leak similarly.’, ‘Cook the largehamburger (without bap), onions and leak in a frying pan with a little vegetable oil.’, ‘Chop the cooked hamburger up and coat in the dijon mustard and put in fridge. Leave whilst you do the rest.’, ‘Mix a further 150g milk with the cumin and curry powder in a measuring jug. It should take on a grey almost brown appearance as opposed to the traditional curry powder orangey yellow.’, ‘Put the lettuce (the one i used is of the variety that looks like a traditional thin light leafed flowery variety but the leaves on tasting raw are powdery(dont mean loose) texture and slightly bitter and semi hard not traditional flower thin which came as a surprise when i pulled off a leaf) leafs in a very small pan and cook on heat with margerine and pepper to mix into an almost mush. Cook for approx 10 minutes, stirring to ensure the margerine covers and softens.’, ‘Combine the hamburger pieces, with the leak and onion, and with the mashed potato and stir it together in a stovable casserole dish or similar. I have a low and wide variety with handles either side. Then add the curry cumin milk on top. Stir it inches A little of it will gather at the bottom of the dish.’, ‘Cook this mix for approximately 15-20 minutes on low to medium heat, enough time to heat up nicely. Remember apart from mashed potato the rest all ready cooked.’, ‘Plate this mixture and then spoon on the Cooked Lettuce mix.’, ‘Serve. Serves 1 but double the mashed potato (ie used the full packet and mixed content) and use 2 hamburgers, will easily serve 2. Does not look great but it tastes delicious.’, ‘Can add tomato ketchup to plate if so desire. Does not detract from it.’, ‘Photo is approximately 2/3 of what is cooked. I had 1/3 first to try(yummy) and there is still half the unused mash for something to make tomorrow in the fridge. Enjoy- only a part time experimental cook here but am enjoying it.’]