MINCING AROUND

Dinner Dash is about tasty, quick, easy and affordable dishes. We share four worthy contenders, all made with mince, from foodie Christine Capendale’s newly released Meals cookbook which is all about effortless food for every occasion

GREEN THAI MEATBALL CURRY

Serves 4

20 small meatballs made from a combination of 500g beef mince, dried breadcrumbs, onion, parsley, 1 egg, seasoning, BBQ spice, Worcester sauce, rolled in a little flour and fried in a little oil

10ml (2 tsp) oil

1 onion, thinly sliced

50g Thai green curry paste 400ml coconut milk 100ml chicken stock

Grated zest of 1 lime and 10ml lime juice

5ml brown sugar

100g tenderstem broccoli 100g mangetout

100g fine green beans

100g baby corn

40g coriander pesto (optional)

10ml (2 tsp) cornflour mixed with 50ml water to make a paste (for thickening the sauce)

Fresh coriander for serving

Heat the oil in a pan and cook the sliced onion for a few minutes until soft. Add the curry paste, then the coconut milk, stock, lime zest, juice and brown sugar.

Add the vegetables and simmer on low heat for 3 minutes. Stir in the pesto, if using and taste to adjust the seasoning.

If you prefer the sauce to be slightly thicker, add the cornflour paste at this stage and thicken the sauce before adding the meatballs. Return the meatballs to the sauce and simmer for another 2 minutes.

Serve with jasmine rice, noodles or roti to soak up the sauce. Top with fresh coriander.