Quick people - how do I cook --a-- fucking --mackerel-- mince?

[LordProfFekkoThePenguinPhD]

Ok so the boy had returned home after stopping off when he picked up a packet of beef mince. Which he has asked sweetly if I could cook for him tonight.

I have no idea (I’m veggie and don’t think I have ever cooked mince in my life). I remember it being a grey, lumpy affair with onions and carrots when I was a child (or in spag bol).

He is the only one eating it...

Any thoughts?

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3228/chilli-con-carne

If he likes spicy food

Then buy him a cook book and tell him to cook his own meat from now on.

Fry some onions off in oil/butter. Add the mince and cook until brown (no pink anywhere). Keep stirring it around to break up large lumps. Can then add a tin of tomatoes and any other veg you wish and herbs for flavour. Can also add celery with the onions.

Can’t he do it himself ??

Sadly he is in middle of his exams or I would have said he should do it himself! I’m being nice 🙄!

You're a lovely parent.
As a veggie are you able to touch mince? If so I'd prpcess it until smoothish with chopped onion and a good tablespoon of dried sage or rosemary and lots of salt and pepper, then shape into balls and cook on a greased dish in a hot oven until browned and cooked through.
Meanwhile make up your usual tomato pasta sauce.
Serve meatballs piled on oiled spaghetti topped with a ladle of sauce.

Or sweat off onions and carrots in a little opil, then add mince and break up while browning: let the meat and onions caramelise a bit to bring out the flavour. Stir through a tbs of flour, then add a mug of water, while scraping down all the caramelized bits to make a meaty gravy. Simmer this for as long as it takes to make a pan of mash.
Put meat in casserole dish, top with buttered mash and fork it over, then cook in medium oven for 40 mins to soften the mince and brown/crispen the top of the mach.

Luckily I’m not squeamish - my mum would eat meat raw when she was chopping it up!

Or follow instructions as for meatballs above but add garlic and oats too, (lots of seasoning) then press into a greased/lined loaf tin and cook in the oven: serve meatloaf with veggies and gravy.

All sounds quite yummy! I’m just drying off some onions in butter (heavenly smell) and see where we go from there!

Mackerel or mince??

The mackerel was from my other thread from the weekend (I am humouring the exam-ridden boy at the moment).

Well it certainly is... something! Smells rather nice!

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I think it needs carrots. Can I add carrots now?

yes but chop them small: usually you add them before the mince.
They'll take a while to cook. Is that a ragu type pasta sauce you are making?
garlic?

It’s a type of pasta sauce I think! He loves rice though but I can’t see how that would work (unless it was chilli).