Rissoles!

More Jersey's for me today too after having had them yesterday with lamb, fresh carrot and swede too and a chunk of my overly-rich orange drizzle cake------it's like a tram-wrecker ! Definitely not for dieters )

We have rissoles on a regular basis OH loves them and eldest DGS will always appear if he knows they are the evening meal menu,lately I have been serving them with Jersey Royals I use them for most evening meals at the minute as they have such a short life span.

I remember having them and really liking them when I was little - I remember quite a distinctive style of minced flavoured meat and a breadcrumbs coating - does anyone know of a nice simple recipe that a comparative dissolve virgin could follow? Thanks in advance.

Almost forgot, my son works in Barcelona and there is a brilliant Argentinian steakhouse there which does a fabulous garlic mash. He got me the recipe - you just boil some nice potatoes in chicken stock with 3 cloves of garlic. When soft, drain, just leaving a little of the stock, add a good knob of butter and a good slug of cream. You can then mash or crush them then pop into an oven proof dish for about 15_20 mins on 200. They are so good and I can imagine them with rissoles and a sauce or gravy. Nice.

Doodle

DONT YOU SPEAK TO ME LIKE THAT PHOENIX ?

Rissoles to you too !!

(Only joking?)

My Mum used an old fashioned mincer to mince up the remains of the weekend joint. I think she added mashed potato etc then fried in spoonfuls. She was a good cook and never wasted anything.
I looked up the derivation of rissoles and most say it comes from words for 'a reddish colour - rousse' . Not very convincing.

potato fritters EllanVannin you can buy them in chip shops here

Mum's rissoles were great but I never did know how she made them----I was too busy eating them. She used to make " specials " with them and they are battered sliced potatoes.

'Rissoles!' was a favourite expletive of my father's.

Not that he didn't like rissoles, you understand, but the sound was pleasingly similar to something he wasn't supposed to say in front of the children.

I quite like some of the old 50's style standbys - we occasionally have corned beef fritters and I love sardines on toast as a light lunch - the ones in tomato sauce though!

My Mum's rissoles were a mixture of potato and meat so we did not have another 'carb' with them. Must admit baked beans is a good choice but something like a mild broccoli or cauliflower cheese would do. By mild I mean that as its an accompanying dish I tend not to make it a cheesy than when its a stand alone supper. Or perhaps a ratatouille type concoction as anything with tomato in goes well too.

They can be a bit dry, so serve them with baked beans.
Or lots of Branston pickle.

I used to love rissoles. Haven't heard the word for donkey's years (what the heck does that phrase mean? ). I really fancy some now!

My mother would serve them with mash, spring greens and thick gravy - very traditional 1950's fare!

I used to love my mother's rissoles, but they needed to be eaten with some of the left-over gravy from the original roast. I feel they will need a sauce of some kind, or perhaps I should say 'jus'. Roast veg would be good too, sprinkled with some of your Middle Eastern spices.

No I haven't heard the word rissoles for years either Riverwalk, the ones Phoenix describes sound far tastier than the ones I remember. We like puy lentils as a change with onions etc, the canned ones are quite tasty.

Phoenix I would keep it Middle East-style and have them with chopped salad, plain yoghurt with dried mint, and pita/flatbread.

Haven't heard the word rissole for about 50 years!

At a first glance at the title of this thread, I thought it was another one about swearing

Whenever we go to visit my husband's family in West Wales,we always have cheese rissoles from the chip shop.Can't get them here.Delicious with chips?

My mother used to make cheese rissoles with a macaroni cheese filling in breadcumbs and deep fried to give a crisp coating.They were lovely.I attempted them last year,no recipe ,and they were a disaster,very stodgy and I was disappointed.If anyone has a recipe can they post it here please.I'd like to get them right.

GrandmainOz that reminds me of the game we used to play, Shrimps and Winkles. You had to read from a book, newspaper, magazine, anything really, and every word that began with an 'S' had to be shrimps and every word beginning with a 'W' was winkles.

So phoenix's opening line would be "Evening, and all good winkles", signing off with "any shrimps?"

Sorry, as you were

MiniMoon I’ve just read that recipe and plan to try it tomorrow. So thank you.

Jane10 I damn well hope so!

As mentioned, I have made them before, so not particularly bothered about the
rissoles themselves, just what to have with them.missiles

BTW, my tablet seems to be hell bent on calling them "missiles" too, MiniMoon , be glad when the desk top pc is back in service, I seem to have slightly more control over that!

Hmmm. I'm missing 'Coronation Rissole' tonight due to blasted football.

My late mother used to make us play the "rissole game" on journeys. You replace one word of a title with "rissole"
Eg Snow White and the Seven Rissoles, Seven Brides for Seven Rissoles, The Charterhouse Rissoles...
Sorry, total derailment of thread, but it's funnier than it might sound. I now do it with GC