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The Composing Cook Recipe – Greek Meatballs
The Composing Cook GREEK MEATBALLS WITH A TWIST
Once you’ve made my Greek Meatballs, there is no going back. In a traditional recipe you would use breadcrumbs but I have gone for Dorito’s instead. These are very tasty and very moreish.
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INGREDIENTS:
500g beef mince 250g pork mince 100g Doritos cool original flavour corn chips 1 (350g) large potato (unpeeled) 1 medium white onion peeled 3 cloves of garlic handful fresh parsley 1 tablespoon dried mint 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon dried oregano 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon 1 teaspoon baking powder 1 large egg a good grinding of pepper oil for frying In a large bowl add the beef & pork mince.
Add the Doritos’s to a food processor and blitz to create breadcrumbs. Add to the mixing bowl with the beef & pork mince.
Now add the potato, onion, garlic & parsley to the same food processor and blitz until finely chopped. Add this mixture to the large bowl also.
Now add all the other ingredients, except the oil, into the large bowl and, using your hands, mix well together.
Using your hands, divide the mixture to create between 36-38 patties. Roll each patty into a ball and squash each ball down gently to create an oval shape.
Fill a large frying pan with approximately ½ cm of oil and turn the gas on and warm the oil. Add between 6-8 meatballs in the pan and fry for about 2 minutes a side. You want them to be golden brown. Place on a plate with kitchen towel to soak up any excess oil.
LET’S TAKE THIS A STEP FURTHER:
This is traditionally served with Greek chips, Greek feta salad, Greek tzatziki sauce.
You can watch me make the Greek Meatballs and all the above accompaniments by visiting my YouTube channel:
www.youtube.com/TheComposingCook
Never fear, I haven’t totally forgotten about Easter. If you visit my website (above), I have created a recipe video called “How To Make Roast Lamb Lasagne using leftovers from a Roast Dinner” which also uses any leftover veg and potatoes.
East-West Rail: Be Fair to Bedford. Re-Consult. Get the Best Route.
In January 2020, Grant Schapps, the Secretary of State for Transport, announced the preferred route for East West Rail between Bedford and Cambridge as a northern route from Bedford’s Midland station. Of all proposed routes being considered, the northern route’s departure from Bedford crosses through extensive and geographically difficult green belt land and as such is comparatively costly, technically difficult to build and is extensively damaging to the environment.
Through recent Bedford Borough and local parish council meetings, residents in areas affected have expressed their extreme frustration at the lack of consultation carried out. Simply put, residents along the chosen northern route were unaware of the 2019 East West Rail public consultation process and were not contacted for their input.
BFARe is a grassroots campaign comprised of Bedford Borough residents. Our vision is to secure a better route for the Bedford to East Coast Mainline section of East-West Railway. We would like the public consultation re-run in full so that a better route will be secured which has the lowest possible impact on the environment and on residents.
BFARe supports the East-West Rail route link for Bedford Borough and the economic benefits this will bring.
BFARe is petitioning for the original 2019 East-West Rail consultation to be re-run in full. We would like the re-consultation to be conducted with thorough notification to all households in all affected areas along each route corridor. We are requesting complete disclosure of comparative cost information and full disclosure of the freight use for each potential route. We also request that EWR consider alternative route options such as an in-out option at Bedford Midland to and from the south of Bedford.
Finally, the BFARe campaign requests East West Rail fully publish a detailed re-calculation of all the assessment criteria and all cost calculations for the routes A-E before a final decision on the route corridor and alignment is made.
