Do you see these beautiful things? I have no idea what to call them in English but, for us, they are cutlets (kotlety). I understand that cutlets mean something different in English, so feel free to suggest the name for these. They are delicious, and all my English-speaking and Hispanic friends love them.
The way you make them is as follows:
Take ground meat (turkey, in this case), add an egg, some crushed garlic, some salt, a cup of cooked couscous, and 1-2 cups of milk. Mix it all up really well. Then create these meat thingies, cover them in bread crumbs and place on a very hot frying pan with some olive oil. Fry on high heat uncovered until they are golden brown. Turn over, lower the fire, and close the lid until they are done.
Every chef has a moment when s/he fails bitterly. As I was cooking the most recent batch of the meats, I noticed that the kitchen reeked of vanilla. As a total idiot, I had bought French vanilla milk instead of regular milk and added that to the ground meat!
Of course, as a very good cook I managed to mask the vanilla smell and taste almost completely. N never noticed anything.
I still feel embarrassed over this, though.
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Once when I was making chocolate pudding to cheer myself up, I dumped lemon extract instead of vanilla into the pudding (same color/size of bottle, next to each other on the shelf). The pudding wasn’t salvageable. So I was even more unhappy after that.
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If they were made with fish they’d be called fishcakes. So how about turkeycakes?
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They kind of look like what is known as Frikadelle around here. The recipe is slightly different, though.
http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frikadelle
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