Has anyone done this before?

[misty]

Basically I've borrowed a set of those little fryingpans and burners that you use at the table and each guest cooks their own meal.

Has anyone done a meal like this? I need some inspiration......

Ideas so far are:

1. Beef stroganoff
2. Thai chicken curry
3. sweet & sour

The idea is you assemble all the individual ingredients in the middle of the table and then everyone sort of makes up their own versions of the above. Then have bowls of steaming rice/noodles etc to pad it all out.

Any better ideas would really be appreciated

Not done this before, but sounds lovely! Looking forward to hearing more about it

Wow, I've never heard of anything like that.

I am a little confused by the concept though. Surely some of these recipes (for example the beef stew) need to cook for a couple of hours?

sounds like a really original idea. Never heard of it before though. Be fascinated to see how it goes.

Mexican? Have different chicken / seafood dishes and then seperate tortillas / guacomole / salsa etc and everyone makes their own?

sounds like a messy affair but alora lora laughs...I suppose you need to drink wine to make it work????????

I went to a restaurant where they did this once, and they did mainly kebabs. They put strips of raw meat, fish, chunks of veg (courgette, peppers, mushrooms and so on) onto the table, everyone assembled their own kebabs onto skewers, and then cooked them on their burners.

tessiebear mexican sounds fab .
wigwambam - that's exactly it, you have strips of everything so they don't take long to cook, and the pans get VERY hot so it doesn't take long anyway.
lavender2 - yes, copious amounts of wine definitely help, some amazing concoctions of the ingredients tend to emerge .
Will let you know how it all goes.....

I had meal kind of like this in Germany once. It was sort of fondue - but instead of cheese sauce it was bubbling oil and you cooked little strips of meat yourself then there were loads of dips and sauces. I was just a bit paranoid about giving myself food poisoning from undercooking the meat!

Prawns, with stilton sauce (stilton and cream) yummy!

I still don't get it. I've had the type of fondue that marthamoo was talking about (where you cook the food in oil and then use dipping sauces) at a fondue restaraunt. And I can understand the concept of kebabs and that type of thing. But your original post mentions stew-type dishes, so I still don't understand how that would work.

I can imagine the Mexican thing. You could marinate different meats and fish, and have vegetables too, and let people cook whichever ones they want. It would be like fajitas.

But I'm just not understanding how you could possibly make beef stroganoff in this way. Can someone enlighten me? (I'm genuinely interested - it sounds like a fun idea.)

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Misty, are you there?

lol katg i was busily preparing said meal last night so didn't log on here!

Anyway it was a roaring success.....the nearest thing I can find image wise is here so there is one of these per person, except we didn't have the stone tops, we had little saucepans instead. You use meths for the little burners which go underneath.

Anyway it was yum! The pans get really hot so the food cooks very quickly. This is what we had:

1. Prawn Thai Curry - melted some garlic butter in pan, added red onions, ginger & lime zest. When softened added prawns, cooked for a few mins then added coconut milk, fish sauce, red thai curry paste, chopped coriander. Simmered for about 5 mins. Served with boiled rice.

2. Beef Stroganoff - (prob not the traditional way of doing this KATG, but tastes lovely!) Melted garlic butter, added sliced onions & softened them. Put in strips of beef, browned them, added sliced mushrooms, then a dollop of dijon mustard, sour cream and a splash of brandy. Cooked for about 5 mins. Served with boiled rice.

3. Chicken fajitas - melted butter, added chicken strips, browned then added onions & sliced peppers. Sprinked on some fajita seasoning (packet mix i'm afraid!)and cooked for about 5 mins. Served in flour tortilla with soured cream, salsa and guacamole. Yum!

There were some guests who mixed and matched the above which is the beauty of this really! Also we had lots of wine so didn't really notice the time in between waiting for the next thing to cook. What I did was once I had finished cooking something and it was on my plate, I started the next dish and ate & cooked at the same time.

Anyway it was really good fun, and now I'm going to try and find where to buy a set as it was a friend's we borrowed .