Tortilla Roll Ups and Crispy

For this you need the minced meat base recipe plus

1 red onion, finely chopped

1 capsicum, chopped

2 garlic, finely chopped

2 tbsp tomato paste

1 can of Mexican chilli beans or kidney beans

Vegies like chopped tomatoes, grated carrots for added filling (optional)

tortillas wrap, ready to buy

grated cheddar cheese

Heat oil in a pan then put in garlic, onion and capsicum. Stir until tender. Put in the minced meat base recipe until all are cooked.

Add tomato paste, a bit of water so it won't be too dry and beans. Simmer until thickened slightly.

Prepare the wrap by putting them in the oven or microwave for a while. Don't put them too long in the oven, or they will be too crispy, unless this is what you want.

To make roll ups :

Lay the wrap flat and put the filling in the centre. Add some vegies and cheese. Roll the wrap tightly.

To make crispy tortilla:

Lay the wrap flat and put filling on the top. Add vegies and cheese. Repeat the process about 3 times and top the last layer with another wrap. Bake in the oven.

Serve with sour cream.

Pizza

Everybody loves pizza. And when you have basic minced beef recipe ready, all you need to add is the vegetables and cheese.

The minced beef should be cooked already or defrosted if you freeze them.

Cut the vegies of your choice such as mushroom, capsicum and pineapple.

Grate some tasty cheese.

Put some tomato sauce on the pizza base.

After that I like to put cheese first to make sure the filling won't fall off.

Arrange the filling on the pizza : minced beef, mushroom, capsicum and pineapple and top it again with some cheese. Don't overfill your filling.

Bake in the oven.

As an alternative, you can also use meatballs as your meat filling. I'll post the meatball recipe later on.

Beef Ravioli

Prepare 1 portion of Minced Beef Base Recipe. Mixed them with ready made pasta sauce or if you can you can make your own pasta sauce from canned tomato.

You need to get gow gee pastry wrappers. Place 1.5 teaspoon of the minced beef in the centre and brush the edge with water. Top with another wrapper and seal. Do this until you finish all wrapper. Place them in a single layer on a lined tray.

Heat oil in saucepan and cook onion and garlic (both finely chopped) until golden. Add 1 canned tomatoes and 3/4 cup of beef stock. Bring to boil. Then reduce heat and simmer until thickened (about 10-15 minutes). Stir in basil.

Boil salted water in large saucepan. Add ravioli and cook for 2 minutes. Drain and spoon over sauce. Enjoy.

Minced Beef and Eggplant Stir Fry

Again you need one portion of the Minced Beef Base Recipe.

Prepare the eggplant. If you buy the big ones, cut them into four lengthwise, or if you have the smaller ones, just cut them into two.

Start by deep frying the eggplant until they are soft, but not mushy, then set them aside.

Stir fry the minced beef and put in the cooked eggplant. If you like them a bit spicy, you can also put in chilli bean sauce (buy them in a jar in chinese groceries), or if you don't like them spicy, just put in hoisin or oyster sauce.

Enjoy with rice.

If your minced meat was cooked at the same time, you can choose to freeze them together with the eggplant.

However, if your minced meat was started from the frozen one, do not freeze them again.

Minced Beef with String Bean Stir Fries

For this recipe you need one portion of the Minced Beef Basic Recipe.

You need to prepare the string bean first. Clean and cut the ends. You can then cut into a finger sized long or leave it as it is.

Just deep fried the string bean until they are cooked and set them aside.

Stir fry the minced beef and put in the cooked string bean and some oyster sauce.

Enjoy with rice.

If your minced meat was cooked at the same time, you can choose to freeze them together with the string bean.
However, if your minced meat was started from the frozen one, do not freeze them again.

Spaghetti Bolognese

Use one portion of the Minced Beef base recipe.

Chopped some bacon, then fry them in a bit of olive oil.

After they are cooked, put in the minced beef base recipe.

Add some tomato paste and diced tomato tinned, stir them and put in herbs of your choice.

You can use ready made bolognese sauce. Or if you have tinned whole tomato , just break them as much as you can, and make sure that next time you buy the diced one, because with tomato tinned it is always every time that you will need to break them anyway.

While doing all that, make sure you boil some water to make the spaghetti according to packet instruction. Do not put oil in the water, just put some salt.

Serve the Spaghetti Bolognese with parmesan cheese.

Easy Lasagna

For this you need one portion of minced beed base recipe cooked, the one without the added vegetables. To that you add 1 can tomato soup, prepared pasta sauce or tomatoes.

2 tbsp herbs of choice

250 gr lasagna sheets

2 cups cream or white sauce

1.5 cups grated tasty cheese

1/2 cup grated parmesan cheese

Greased your casserole dish and line with lasagna. Then pour the cooked minced meat, cream or white sauce and last the tasty cheese. Make sure your lasagna have enough cream/sauce or it won't cooked properly.

Repeat the layers in that order until all ingredients are finished.

On the top layer, there should be cream and parmesan cheese.

Bake in moderate oven (180oC) for 30 minutes or until tender and golden.

Serve with salad on the side.

Minced Beef Plus Extras Base Recipe

This minced beef has some extras in it and you can make meatloaf, meatballs in many sauces, and burgers. I will post all the recipes later.

500 gr minced beef
1 cup breadcrumbs
1 cup of frozen vegetables (or chopped or grated fresh vegetables such as carrot and zucchini)
1 onion, finely chopped
1 egg, lightly beaten
2 tbsp tomato sauce
2 tbsp parsley, finely chopped
1 tbsp chili sauce (optional)

Just mixed all the ingredients and continue with the next recipes for meatloaf, meatballs and burgers.

Minced Beef Base Recipe

This minced beef has no extra other than basic seasonings.

You can use them after you cook the basic recipe to make spaghetti bolognese, stir fries, murtabak (martabak/minced beef curry), tortilla, pizza, lasagna, open savoury mince tarts, pasta bake and spring roll.

Or put the uncooked meat in other wrapping then cook them to make ravioli.

Just follow the recipes I will post later on.

But for this one you will need :

500 gr minced meat
1 garlic and 1 onion, finely chopped
sweet soy sauce (kecap manis)
salt and pepper

To cook them, start with frying the garlic in a small amount of oil, then put in the minced meat and seasonings. Break them up while cooking to avoid lumps.

You can then use them straight away or choose to let it cool before putting them in the freezer.

If you need to use them after they are frozen, just deforst them in the microwave.

Prawn Ekkado

Start by immersing bean curd (the one that look like a paper, not the stick ones) in warm water. The easiest way to do this is by putting them in a baking tray, so they are flat. Choose the ones that are intact, but if there is a little hole, you can carefully add another layer on the broken one after they are soft.

Prepare quail eggs. If you buy them in a tin, wash them first. Or if you buy them raw, boil them and peel them.

Once the bean curd are soft, lay them flat. Put some of the minced prawn base recipe in the middle and put one quail egg in the middle. Then make a wrap of the bean curd so it forms a money bag. Tie the top with cooking string.

How to cook them:

Deep fry them in hot oil. Just make sure that you lower the fire once they are hot so you do not burn the wrapper before the filling is cooked.

Enjoy with your favorite sauce.

PS : to make them look pretty, change the cooking string with shallot cut into strips once they are cooked.

How to freeze them:

If you want to freeze them you need to steam them until they are cooked first. When they are cooked, put them in a baking tray convered with baking paper. When they are frozen, you can keep them in plastic container.