Ready, Steady, Cook

October 19th - Still ploughing my way through back issues of old foodie mags and here's a really quick recipe for those days when you don't have a lot of ingredients in or if you fancy ringing the changes with some mince! It's a Bill Granger recipe for Spicy Beef Koftas with onion salad. Or not! Omit the onion salad if you are in a rush because you need to set them aside for an hour. Well if you are anything like me and starting dinner at 7pm then you don't want to be waiting that long! The pack of mince was flung in a bowl with a teaspoon each of cumin seeds and coriander, a chopped green chilli, some freshly chopped coriander and a grated onion. I love squelching stuff like this with my hands...takes me back to all the mud pies long.....long...ago. Bill suggests 24 koftas...I got 16! They were fried for a couple of minutes to brown and then into a hot oven for about 6 minutes. Just long enough to make a quick salad and a cucumber yogurt dip. From start to finish in 2o minutes and none the worse for the lack of onion salad.