easydinner – My Whisk and I

1kg beef strips
3 leeks, sliced
2 cloves of garlic, minced
3 red sweet peppers, sliced into strips
83ml sugar
83ml apple cider vinegar
45ml pineapple juice, reserved from the tin of pineapple pieces
45ml tomato sauce/ketchup
15ml Worcestershire sauce
15ml soy sauce
20ml cornstarch
125ml water
1 x 400g tin of pineapple pieces
a handful of sliced spring onions
a handful of black sesame seeds

Place a saucepan onto medium-high heat and brown the beef strips in batches. Set aside.
Add a splash of vegetable oil to the saucepan and add the leeks and garlic. Stir-fry until the leeks are soft.
Add the red peppers and cook for another 3 minutes.
Mix together the sugar, vinegar, pineapple juice, tomato sauce, Worcestershire sauce, soy, cornstarch and water and give it a good whisk.
Add the sauce to the sauce pan and allow to come to a simmer.
Now add the beef strips and pineapple pieces and cook for about 15 minutes while stirring every now and then.
Sprinkle the spring onion and sesame seeds over and serve on rice.

These pork sausages in an apple and marmelade gravy makes the ideal weeknight dinner: quick, easy and delicious!

16 pork sausages
3 red onions
3 apples
1 head of garlic
15ml wholegrain mustard
125ml marmelade
200ml apple juice
20ml cornstarch
200ml chicken stock
a handful of sage leaves

Preheat your oven to 180℃.
Pour some vegetable oil into a shallow casserole dish, add the sausages and brown them over a medium heat. Remove the sausages and set aside.
Peel the onions and apples, cut into quarters and remove the cove from the apple. How half each quarter onion and apple.
Keep about 8 apple pieces aside.
Half the head of garlic horizontally and place it cut-side down in the casserole.
Add the onion, apple and mustard and fry for about 4 minutes. Remove and set aside with the sausages.
Add the marmelade and apple juice to the casserole and stir until the marmelade has melted.
Add the cornstarch to a small bowl and add a small amount of the chicken stock to it, while stirring to dissolve.
Pour the cornstarch mixture and the rest of the chicken stock into the casserole and add the rest of the ingredients, except the extra apple pieces, that you have kept aside.
Cover with a lid and place in the oven for 20 minutes.
Remove the lid, stir the dish and cook for another 15 minutes.
Take the casserole from the oven and add the rest of the apple pieces and sage leaves. Stir through.
Serve the marmelade and apple sausages on a creamy mashed potato or steamed couscous.

Tag: easydinner

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