Re: Collection of Ramadan Recipes 2007
^ sounds good, will try it sometime.
Here is how i make Beef patties (taste kinda like paki bakery ones)... learned it from my hubby's bhabhi. I am posting it in detail for amateurs (like I was once) but it is really easy and quick to follow…even a caveman can make it.:)
1 pack Pepperidge farm puff pastry sheet (or any other brand available at your local grocery store... make sure its the SHEET and not the SHELLS)
1 lb ground beef
1 tsp whole white cumin
salt to your taste
1/2 tsp each of ginger/garlic paste
2-3 medium onions
4-5 small green chillies
1/2-3/4 cup oil for frying onions
2-3 cups of water
1/2 tsp chaat masala
1 egg (beat it and add a pinch of yellow or red food color)
white flour- to dust your working surface
Method:
1. Boil ground beef in 2-3 cups of water along with whole cumin and ginger/garlic paste until it is well cooked.
2. Take the puff pastry pack out of the freezer and let it thaw at the room temp. i.e. on your kitchen counter. (45 minutes or so)
3. Heat oil in a pan/skillet. Fry onion till translucent or lightly browned.
4. Cut the green chillies in halves (lengthwise) and add it to the frying onion. Keep frying for the next 5-7 minutes.
5. Now add the boiled ground beef thingy in it and keep frying it on high flame until the onions are well mixed with the ground beef. Add salt as per your taste and chaat masala.
- Turn the heat off and let the stuff cool down to room temp.
To Fill the pastry:
1. Working on one sheet at a time. Unfold the sheet and cut it through the three folded lines (you will have three smaller rectangular sheets now)
2. Take one rectangular sheet and cut it into three equal squares.
3. Dust your working surface with a little flour and roll out each square into a slightly bigger square (4”)
4. Put the ground beef filling in the middle of the square.
5. Brush the sides of the square with the beaten egg and fold it into a triangle.
6. Also brush the top of the pastry triangle with the egg.
7. Preheat oven to 350 F while you fill the rest of the pastry sheets.
8. Line them up on a baking tray wrapped in aluminum foil/or brushed with some cooking oil or spray.
9. Put the tray on the oven rack making sure it is not too close to the heat source or it will burn from the bottom while being cooked on top.
10. Bake for 15-20 minutes or until done.
Now Eat!