Saucy Skewered Meat With Cabbage Patties

Total Time: 1 hr Preparation Time: 20 mins Cook Time: 40 mins

Ingredients

• Servings: 3
• 20 ounces round steaks, cut into cubes
• 1/2 cup tomato ketchup
• 1/2 cup sweet yellow mustard, sauce (runny hotdog mustard, the cheap one)
• 1 tablespoon soy sauce
• 5 -6 wooden skewers, soaked in water
• 1 medium potato, peeled and cut into chunks (or use a large one)
• 2 -3 teaspoons milk
• 1 pinch salt
• 2 cups cabbage, very finely shredded (i used a mandolin)
• 3 tablespoons green peppers, very finely chopped
• 1 teaspoon oregano
• 1 teaspoon flaked sea salt (less if using table salt)
• 2 teaspoons garlic, finely chopped
• 3/4 teaspoon coarse black pepper
• 1 extra large egg
• butter (for frying)
• oil (for frying)

Recipe

• 1 depending on your steak, cut into chunks and leave in a marinade, or use as it is.
• 2 mix the ketchup, mustard and soy sauce together. thread the meat chunks on the skewers, and drench on both sides in the ketchup mixture. cover, and leave for a while in the fridge.
• 3 boil the potato chunks until tender.
• 4 in the meantime, slice the cabbage. i used 1 baby cabbage because it is easier to work with, and i used a mandolin to slice it really fine.
• 5 chop 3 tablespoons green pepper finely (about 1/3 pepper).
• 6 drain the potato chunks, add 2 t milk to start with, and mash. add extra teaspoon milk if too dry.
• 7 mix all the vegetables (including the mash) in a large bowl, and mix in the oregano. add salt to taste: with sea salt flakes you need less than with fine table salt. mix in the garlic and pepper.
• 8 whisk the egg briefly and add. mix until you have a mixture which just hold together. if really too dry, add a teaspoon of milk.
• 9 use a pan, pref non-stick, melt the butter and oil over quite high heat, form 4 large flat patties, and fry. lower the heat or they will burn.
• 10 once the patties slightly hold their shape (they won't be completely firm), turn over with a large spatula. they should be browned at the edges, but not fried to death. remove and keep warm.
• 11 the meat skewers: heat your grill to high. take skewers out of the sauce, put on a grid with a pan beneath them, and grill until done. you need to turn them once or twice.
• 12 warm the leftover sauce, and use to spoon over the skewers once done. (can be done on an outside grill or in a hot oven).
• 13 serve the skewers on the patties, with the patties on a pita bread or toasted panini, or on toasted bread or any bread you like, or even as a kind of hamburger.
• 14 to serve as a main dish, add a tomato-cucumber salsa and corn on the cob -- or similar.