Recipe 3 - Salisbury Steak

The Promised Salisbury Steak is the third recipe in Sweetness and Lightning.

Ingredients

Serves 3-4

• 300 g mixed ground pork and beef
• 1 onion
• 1/2 egg - fry up the rest and eat it!
• 4 tbsp bread crumbs
• 2 tbsp milk
• 1/2 tsp salt
• dash of pepper
• 1 tbsp olive oil
• One sunny-side up egg for each person

Sauce

• A: 1 clove garlic (minced), 2 bay leaves
• B: 1/2 tsp salt, dash of pepper
• 1400 g can diced tomatoes

Steps

1. Mince the onion and cook it thoroughly in the olive oil until translucent, then take it out and let it cool. Soak the breadcrumbs in the milk. Beat the egg.
2. Put the meat into a bowl and mix with salt and pepper until combined. Add the ingredients from Step 1 (reserving half of the onion) and mix until it starts to stick together.
3. Divide what you made in Step 2 into three or four portions and toss them between your hands to help the meat bind. Shape into patties and make a little depression in the middle using your finger.
4. Using the frying pan from Step 1, cook the patties from 3. (If it's not a non-stick frying pan, put down some oil) Cook on medium heat.Once both sides are brown, remove and put on a plate.
5. Add a small amount of olive oil to the frying pan from Step 4. Add sauce ingredients A and cook on low heat. Once they start to smell good, put in the rest of the onions from Step 1 and the canned tomatoes. Add the ingredients from B and stew for about 5 minutes. Then return the patties to the pan, cover, and stew for 7 minutes.
6. Take out the bay leaves, then reduce the sauce, stirring occasionally so it doesn't burn

Side notes

1. Top with the sunny-side eggs you cooked ahead of time.
2. You can add bouillon cubes, ketchup, or oyster sauce to the sauce.
3. Mix in part of the egg when you eat it.