Barbecue recipes

Thommo · Barbecue recipes

As the barbecue season is now properly here I thought I'd post some of my barbecue recipes - I was looking for a barbie subforum but can't see one?

Anyway

Recipe 1 - Cevapcici.

My mother in law hails from Trieste in Italy, very close to the sloveniain border, this is her take on a great piece of slovenian street food type thing (although this recipe is common throughout the eastern end of the med, adriatic and agean under different names), works great on barbies.

Ingredients:

1 pound of lean steak mince
1/2 pound of minced lamb
1/2 pound of minced belly pork (including the fat but not the skin).
1/2 and onion finely chopped
4 cloves of garlic finely chopped
1 egg to bind
1 chilli pepper finely chopped
Juice form a whole lime
Cupfull of mixed chopped parsley, coriander and basil leaves
small sachet of dried oregano
coriander seed
black pepper
Paprika
cumin
rosemary

preparation
dry fry about a two teaspoons each of coriander seeds, cumin seeds and 1 teaspoon of black pepper, then put them in a mortar and pestle with some rock salt and fresh rosemary, then grind to a dryinsh paste (the rosemary should disappear), then add two teaspoons of paprika. you can adjust the quantities to taste but you want at least a heaped tablespoon of the final mix and possibly as much as two depending on how strng you like your spices

put all the ingredients together in a bowl and get dug in and mix the lot by hand.

after the first mixing I like to take a spoonful of the mix and make a flat ptty out of it then dry fry it som I can taste it and adjust the seasonings as I go, I nearly always end up putting more paprika in because i like it a bit spicy. mix it all up again after the final seasoning and press it all down as hard as you can, you don't want this mix too coarse or it wont hold together as there is no cereal to help bind it.
put the mixl in a fridge for a couple of hours to chill before you try forming.

you can serve these a few different ways, as burgers, as small hand rolled sausages or I like to form them round bamboo skewers a bit like Koftas. Just oil them a little with olive oil, pop them on the barbecue and way you go.

We usually serve a salsa with this made of chopped onion, green peppers, parsley, capers and chooped gherkins, and sometimes I do a greek garlicky yodhurt dressing too.

MissMuppet

Thanks for posting these Thommo... maybe I will make a BBQ sub-forum, just for you! q19

lesterbeach1573

Thanks for posting this recipe.... might be try it.

Nannyp