Corned Beef / Minced Meat Sauce

First of all, I recently just discovered that its "Corned Beef"; all my life I have been calling it "CORN BEEF". I actually laughed out loud upon realizing it haha. Have you always known it has Corned Beef?

Anyways, this sauce brings a lot of memories for me. I stayed with my grandma during my early primary school days; so we used to make this simple delicious sauce almost every weekend. I'm however adding the minced meat part to it because it's the same process; you just have to heat the minced meats to take out the excess water first then you are good to go.

 

You will be needing:

 

A Can of Corned Beef or Minced meat

Habanero Pepper (about 60%; you can reduced it though if you are not a pepper fan like I and my generation hehehe)

Onions (about 10%)

Tatashe (about 30%)

Ginger and Garlic (to your preference I usually use more garlic and ginger though)

Bullion Cubes

Salt (to taste)

Palm Oil

Cray-Fish

 

Lets Cook.

 

Blend your peppers, onions with ginger and garlic (not too smooth) and heat up your frying pan/pot with about 3 to 4 cooking spoons of palm oil. Dice your onions to the palm oil and let it fry for a minute before adding your pepper mixture.

If you are using minced meat, you will need to put it in a pan and reduce the heat and let the water dry out for about 10 to 15 minutes.

Let it fry for about 20 minutes on high heat then reduce. You will see it is well fried when the oil disappears and then later settles on top of the pepper. (see picture below)

Season with your preferred bullion cubes, salt, crayfish. You really don't need curry and thyme but you may add it if you so wish but if you are used to adding that in all your cooking skip it for this meal and see a difference. Let it fry for about a minute then add your corned beef or the pre-boiled minced meats. (if you are using corned beef please be careful with salting your sauce as corned beef is already salty.

 

Let it fry for a bit longer on a low heat and your corned beef or minced meat is ready.

 

Served with either yam, bread or with pasta. Also, the good thing is you can take the one you will be using for the day and freeze the rest away for use another day or recipe.

 

Let me know what you think and comment below if you have any questions as well.