I asked Eli what I could do with some meat and naan. We actually use ground turkey, not ground beef (red meat bad)… But same diff if you’re used to it. Anyway, here was his advice:
If you have ground beef, and some canned tomatos (always good to keep, they taste great no matter what season), and any kinda starch. That makes a pretty good deal.
You can make a hash, brown some of the ground beef in a bit of fat, throw in the tomatos (sauce and all), broken up Naan (or leftover cooked rice, really any cooked starsh), toss anything else in the way of spices, veggies, or whatever. Heat until hot and eat.
It takes a while to get the liquid ratio right.
If it’s too dry pour in some lite beer, chicken stock, or water if you must.
If it’s too soupy add more starch, or let it cook down some.
To be really fancy, break some eggs or cheese, or buttered bread crumbs on top and throw it under the broiler until it’s crispy.
Bang, instant dinner!
Thanks, Eli, the oral oracle. Now I’m hungry! :)
Mood: lambs would taste great right now!
Music: Kreator – Lambs To Slaughter
March 11, 2009 at 2:53 PM
More from Eli:
Here’s where my hash knowledge came from, it’s really easy to turn anything into hash:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/turkey-re-hash-recipe/index.html
If you have onions, celery, carrots, or any aromatic you don’t want to have solid hunks of, be sure to cook them a bit in oil first (in Alton’s case he renders fat from sausage and cook them in that, which is an EXCELLENTLY delicious idea).
The great thing about hash is you don’t always taste any one part, so you wouldn’t be tasting the nan, it’ll be soaked in the liquid, and will just end up soaking it up, thickening the whole mess.
And here’s your green sauce, which is effectively a tomatillas fried sauce (or Salsa Frito, or Sofrito, which is any fried sauce).
http://recipes.bgkulinar.net/recipe-Famous+Green+Sauce-3939
March 11, 2009 at 2:54 PM
stomach… growling.. so much
March 11, 2009 at 6:02 PM
I didn’t know what a tomatillo was. I looked it up on wikipedia, and then I went to peapod, and they have it! It’s on my next order.
March 11, 2009 at 6:05 PM
it looks like an onion!
June 20, 2020 at 1:11 PM
The famous green sauce link doesn’t work anymore, and I lost my printout of it. Oh, the humanity!