: to whopping.  Hope you and DD had a whopping good time shopping Cookie1     I'm sure you do these misprints on purpose, just to give us a good laugh.

Thanks Chookie.  As much as I love my chicken soup, I can't believe that I have never used leftovers to make stock.  I have known about it for years but have just not done it myself.  I must correct this oversight with my next roast chicken.

Hi Willowfox, welcome to the forum. Good luck with your consultant's career.

Good for you jojo. It's a wonder we don't have a damper recipe in one of our books as you couldn't get more Australian than that. Thanks to you, we now have one. I am always meaning to have a lamb chop BBQ, damper and lamingtons on Australia Day but just never get around to it.  This recipe should be put into the Bread section too so that it is easy to find later.

Name of Recipe: Tangy Lamb Patties - this idea came from a Drake Supermarket specials brochure.
Number of People: 4 serves
Ingredients:

Medium sized onion cut into 4
1 clove garlic
1 tblspn oil
500g lamb mince (or make your own in the TMX)
1 teaspn curry powder
3 tblspns sweet chilli sauce (used the TMX version)
Juice of 1 lemon


Preparation:

Chop the onion & garlic for 3 seconds on speed 5.
Add the oil and saute on Varoma temp for 2 mins speed 1.
Add the curry powder, chilli sauce and lemon juice and mix together for 30 seconds speed 1.
Add the mince meat and mix on reverse for 1 minute on speed 2, no heat.

Roll into balls the size of a golf ball, place on a baking paper lined tray or dish and refrigerate until ready to cook.
Spray a non-stick frypan with olive oil and place the balls in the pan.  Press down to form a patty and cook until caramelized on both sides.  Makes approx 20-25 patties but you can make less by making them bigger.

For the sauce I thawed out some tomato & onion sauce leftover from something, added it to the pan and the lovely caramelization of the pan mixed in with the tomatoes made a nice, rich, dark sauce. Lovely with mashed potatoes and peas.

You could serve them with a mint/yoghurt dipping sauce with rice and pappadams.

members' comments

faffa - made these thanks JD - made my own mince from lamb rump that I had in the freezer (always buy it when I see it as the Moroccan lamb is a standby in our family). These are really yummy and would definitely make them again. They would also hold up to some veg being hidden in them for those of us that have fusspots and need to do so.

CP - I made these but they were very sloppy in texture before cooking. I plopped them onto baking paper in the frypan (with a mix of butter and oil) which meant they were easier to turn over and they held together better that way. Once they started to cook they started to crumble and they would've stuck to the frypan otherwise without the baking paper. Made up a gravy using the caramelized stuff and the vegie stock, water and with a bit of plain flour and served it with mashed potatoes and beans. I will have to make up some TM sweet chilli sauce because perhaps the commercial sort I used was what made it sloppy. They were very tasty and were gobbled up in 2 secs flat. Thanks JD for another great recipe.

JD - Don't know why they were so sloppy CP63, did you leave them to rest in the fridge for very long?  They sounded like a disaster to me and I was so surprised when you said they were very tasty at the end. I remember having to turn them carefully when I made them but they all stayed together OK. My home made chilli sauce was very thick so maybe that was the difference.

Sorry again Kali Ma - had notes everywhere and did a very poor job of getting them all together for this recipe.  Think it is all there now.  Shouldn't taste much different without the ginger but it would certainly add to the lovely flavours if you decide to do it another time. 

Will add it next time Depome - have plenty of brandy in the house as SIL brings me a bottle back everytime he goes overseas and I'm not drinking it as much as I used to.

Hi KL, how painful it must be to read and see all these wonderful recipes and not have a TMX    Have you taken DH along to one of the demos - that usually works in your favour. Or perhaps having a demo in your own home might be the answer. We need to boost our Adelaide numbers so good luck with convincing DH that you really need one of these machines. Looking forward to the day when you tell us you have ordered one.