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Following on from my review and giveaway of Gwyneth Paltrow’s Notes From My Kitchen Table this week, here are two recipes that I have tried out.
“Home-made turkey sausage patties” are in the breakfast chapter but I cooked them for dinner in burger form.
I refuse to call these mini burgers “patties” as described in the book. Rissoles, fair enough. Patties are something cows poop out.
They’re ideal for a family tea. I omitted the chilli and didn’t have “herbes de Provence” salt to hand. However as luck would have it, I had “sel de Mouclade” from last year’s holiday on Ile de Re. This is a kind of mild curried rock salt so I used this instead.
I also added a finely chopped red onion because it was hanging about in the fridge needing using. Gwyneth herself notes that you can make this recipe kid friendly by leaving the chillli out.
Whereas turkey mince can be a bit anaemic, the maple syrup or in my case, agave nectar, caramelises to brown the burgers. They’re still not that pretty but tasted very good indeed.
The miso dressing gave me an opportunity to use lots of lovely Clearspring products as talked about in my post last week. I bet Gwyneth loves Clearspring.
Above from left to right you can see Clearspring rice mirin, toasted sesame oil, sweet white miso and tamari soya sauce. I found shaoxing rice wine amongst the Cooks’ Ingredients section in Waitrose.
Gwyneth says her son Moses would dip his whole hand into this miso dressing and lick it… I can see where he’s coming from, it has a peanut butter like compelling-ness about it. Ted’s response was “that is yuck.”
Fortunately he ate the turkey burgers although he said “no” when I asked whether he’d like me to make them again. All the more for mummy then.
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Gwyneth Paltrow Turkey Burgers
Ingredients
- 1 tsp fennel seeds
- pinch crushed dried chilli
- pinch cayenne pepper
- pinch herbes de provence salt normal salt with some dried herbes de provence would be fine
- 1/2 tsp coarse salt not necessary in my opinion if you've already used salt above
- 1/4 tsp black pepper freshly ground
- 1 tsp sage finely chopped fresh
- 225 g turkey mince
- 2 tsp maple syrup "Real Vermont" specifed by Gwyneth's book... I didn't have any but subbed with agave nectar which was fine
- 2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
Instructions
- Using a pestle and mortar or mini food processor, bash the fennel seeds, crushed chillies, cayenne, salts and pepper together.
- Combine this spice mixture with the sage, turkey and maple syrup in a bowl until thoroughly combined.
- Form the mixture into small, thin sausage shaped patties.
- Heat the olive oil in a large non-stick pan over medium-high heat.
- Cook the sausages for about 1 1/2 minutes on each side, pressing down with your spatula to really brown them and keep them thin. Serve warm.
Notes
Recipes reproduced with permission from Gwyneth Paltrow’s Notes From My Kitchen Table, available in hardback from Boxtree RRP £20.
The Miso Dressing is unbelievably wonderful. It alone is worth the price of the book. The Miso Hoisin Sauce also in the book is again, unbelievably wonderful!!
Ooh not noticed that hoisin version. I will take another look. I quite agree about the miso dressing, I need to make another batch of the stuff, it’s marvellous.
I adore miso dressing, and I can eat taht sweet white miso straight from the packet too.
My dressing is even more simple.
equal quantities miso, lemon juice and soy. And fat free too. Hurrah!
I love turkey burgers (actually, I love burgers full stop) and this little patties/rissoles look good. I have to try the miso dressing.
Michael, I am vowing to have a jar of it in my fridge at all times from now on. It’s THAT good.