Hey
Neighbours!
We at the
NeighbourBlog HQ do love our food, and now summer is just around
the corner it’s coming up to BBQ season! The great British BBQ has a lot of
variations, but below we have listed our (tried and tested!) best recipes for
the perfect British BBQ, Enjoy!
Homemade Beef Burgers
Ingredients:-
1 Large
White Onion
1 Slice of
Bread (Crust is best) or a handful of Breadcrumbs
500g Minced
Beef
1 Egg Yolk
½ tbsp Ketchup
1 tbsp Worcestershire
Sauce
Salt and
Pepper to taste
This recipe
makes at least 4 pretty big burgers, but can stretch out to 6 pretty easily.
Now the
easiest way to do all of this is to put it all in a food processor and just
blitz it until the ingredients are nicely mixed and you can’t see any big chunks
of Onion! If you don’t have a food processor – get those hands ready! This
recipe is pretty easy to do with your hands, although it doesn’t feel the
nicest, just make sure you chop the onion as finely as possible.
Now the easy
bit, shape them into patties, you want them around 1.5cm-2cm thick. The easiest
way to stop them from being so sticky is to dust them with a light coating of
flour. This holds it all together and stops them falling apart. Give them
around 5 minutes on the grill on each side, and enjoy!
Homemade Vegetarian Burgers
Ingredients:-
2 ½ tbsp
Olive Oil
1 Large
White Onion finely chopped
1 Garlic
Clove crushed
300g Grated
Carrots
300g Grated
Courgette (Aubergine works well too!)
1 ½ tsp
Ground Cumin
1 ½ tsp
Ground Coriander
3 tbsp
Crunchy Peanut Butter (Weird we know but it works)
2 tbsp
Chopped Fresh Coriander
100g
Breadcrumbs
1 Egg Beaten
Salt and
Pepper
This recipe
will make 4-6 decent sized burgers.
Start by
adding the oil to a frying pan and put it on a moderate heat, add the onion and
the garlic and cook until both are starting to soften. Next add the carrot and
courgette/aubergine and cook until softened (around 10mins on a moderate heat
should do it). Next stir in the Cumin, Coriander, Peanut Butter, Fresh
Coriander and seasoning to taste. Make sure it’s mixed well. Then set it aside
to cool slightly. Once it’s cooled add in the egg and the breadcrumbs. At this
point the mixture will be starting to blend together nicely.
Shape into
4-6 patties, around 1.5cm-2cm thick, then stick on the grill for around 5
minutes each side and enjoy!
BBQ Marinade
Ingredients:-
3 tbsp
Ketchup
2 tbsp Clear
Honey
2 tbsp Sweet
Chilli Sauce
1 tbsp Soy
Sauce
1 tbsp Olive
Oil
1 tbsp White
Wine Vinegar
1 tbsp Cajun
Seasoning
1 De-seeded
Red Chilli, finely chopped
½ tsp Onion
or Garlic Salt
This recipe
for a marinade is great; you end up with perfectly seasoned sticky BBQ with any
meat! This is especially good for wings and ribs (we tested this one a few
times it was so good). We found the best method is putting all of the ingredients
in a sealable bag with the meat of your choice and if possible marinating in
the fridge over night. This makes it super juicy when you get round to cooking
it!
NeighbourBlog’s BBQ Sauce
Ingredients:-
2tbsp Olive
Oil
1 Large
White Onion, finely chopped
3 Garlic
Cloves, crushed
400g Can of
Chopped Tomatoes
90g Brown
Sugar
3 tbsp Malt
Vinegar
2 tbsp
Worcestershire Sauce
1 tbsp
Tomato Puree
Dash of
Tabasco
Sprinkle of
Smoked Paprika
Firstly
start by softening the onion in the olive oil, then add everything else in and
give it a good stir. Keep it on low-moderate heat and simmer for a good 20-30
minutes stirring regularly.
This sauce
is great chunky, but if you prefer it a little smoother, leave it to cool and
give it a blitz with a hand blender or in a food processor.
Homemade Cheese Slaw
Ingredients:-
50g Cheddar
Cheese (or any other type, we at
NeighbourBlog like the strong ones!)
½ White
Onion
2 Carrots
½ White
Cabbage
6 tbsp Mayonnaise
½ tbsp Dijon
Mustard
Tsp White
Wine Vinegar
Your best
friend when making Slaw is your Grater! Grate all of these magical ingredients
and add the vinegar, mayo and mustard – tada! Awesome homemade slaw.
NeighbourBlog’s Potato Salad
Ingredients:-
6 Medium
Cooked and Diced Potatoes
1 Small
Onion, finely chopped
2 Stalks
Celery, finely chopped
1 tsp Salt
6 Hard
Boiled Eggs, diced
Dressing:-
2 Beaten
Eggs
25g White
Sugar
1 tsp Corn
flour
4 tbsp
Vinegar
1 Can
Evaporated Milk
1 tsp Dijon
Mustard
50 g Butter
6 Heaped
Tablespoons Mayonnaise
Toss the
potatoes and eggs together in a large bowl.
For the
dressing, whisk together the eggs, sugar, corn flour and salt into a saucepan.
Stir in slowly the vinegar, milk and mustard. Cook over a moderate heat,
stirring frequently until the sauce has thickened. Then remove from the heat
and stir in the butter. Once it’s cooled for a few hours in the fridge, stir in
the mayonnaise and add to the Potatoes and Eggs. Best. Potato. Salad. Ever.
Burger Relish
Ingredients:-
6 Tomatoes
with the skin peeled (do this by boiling them whole, skin will peel right off)
1 Onion,
finely chopped
1 tsp
English Mustard
25g Brown
Sugar
1 tbsp
Worcestershire Sauce
150ml Red
Wine Vinegar
Dash of
Tabasco (Depending on how brave you’re feeling)
Salt and
Pepper to season
Finely chop
the tomatoes and add them to a pan with a little Olive Oil and the Onion. As
they start to soften add in the Brown Sugar. Once the sugar starts to get a
little gloopy (scientific term), add in the rest of the ingredients. Then leave
this to simmer for around 20 minutes on a moderate heat until it’s thickened.
Then add to a juicy Beef Burger. Then you have one fine
NeighbourBlog Burger.
BBQ’s aren’t
just an excuse to eat good food and sit your garden with a few drinks, they are
also a great excuse to meet your Neighbours! So why not take some of our
wonderful recipes, and host a get together. It is almost summer after all!
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