You’re probably going to kill me for submitting a recipe so close to the wire, but here goes! It’s nothing fancy, but out of all of our cookbooks, it is one we use by far the most regularly and it’s a really nice quick but tasty dinner.

Anyway, it’s a recipe from a Nigella Lawson cookbook, and it’s easy to change things around if you like. She calls it “Korean Keema” and the recipe itself is as follows.


Ingredients

for the sauce

Method

  1. Whisk together sauce ingredients, and stir in minced turkey. Leave to steep for about 5 minutes. (We usually use a measuring jug for this).
  2. Blanche the peas in a sieve/colander. Heat a wok on the hob and add oil, followed by defrosted peas and chopped spring onions. Stir-fry for 3-4 mins.
  3. Add the turkey and its sauce, and stir-fry for a further 4-5 minutes until cook.
  4. Add additional water/rice wine to the mixture to prevent the dish becoming too dry (recommended 4 table spoons water, 2 tablespoons rice wine)
  5. Serve with rice with chopped coriander sprinkled on top

That’s it! As I said, we do mix it up – very easy with beef mince rather than turkey, and I often use maple syrup rather than honey to sweeten it up, or a regular onion instead of spring onion. Though, having said all that, the flavour from the chili paste is really strong so I think that helps if the precise ingredients aren’t available (and we really like it every time!).

One last thing Nigella said is that you can let the mince steep in the sauce beforehand, but not for longer than an hour because the salt in the soy sauce will react with the acid in the rice wine.