Recipes

Super fast, easy, tasty. Great weeknight with rice. It’s from “Korean Cooking” by Hilaire Walden. Serves 2-4.

• 4 small zucchini, in 5mm slices
• 115g lean mince beef
• 2tbs oil
• 2 spring onions, thinly sliced
• 1 tbs sugar
• 1 tbs soy sauce
• 1/2 – 1 tsp chilli powder
• toasted sesame seeds to garnish
• Marinade:
  • 1 spring onion, sliced
  • 2 garlic cloves, finely chopped
  • 1.5 tbs soy sauce
  • 1 tbs sesame oil
  • 2.5 cm fresh ginger, chopped
  • 1 tsp toasted sesame seeds
  • black pepper

The recipe says, prior to cooking, to put the zucchini with salt in a colander to draw some water out. I never do this. It also says to marinate the beef. I rarely do this either. And it still comes out pretty tasty.

Heat the oil in a large fry pan over fairly high heat, add beef and marinade and fry, stirring to break up the lumps, for about 1 min or until the beef browns. Gently stir in the zucchini, add the remaining ingredients except for sesame, and cook for 2 mins, stirring gently. Lower the heat and continue to stir until the zucchini are cooked but retain bite. Garnish with sesame seeds to serve.

Goes well with glazed pumpkin and white rice.