Mini Thai pork burgers, homemade chips and thai salad

These little mini burgers are delicious, and are really easy to make. I know this is quite a long list of ingredients but I am struggling to use up all of my store cupboard ingredients before I move house, so I am a bit prone at the moment to throw in a splash of anything I think will taste good and hope for the best!

I am trying to cut down on my bread, so I made these as little mini patties this time, but if you want, just make them a little bigger and serve them in buns. 

One final thing, if you don't have all the ingredients in your cupboard, then sainsburys sell something called "fragrant  thai base" which you can mix into the burger, and then turn it into a salad dressing by adding water. 

Ingredients

Serves 2

Handful of any potatoes you wish. Enough for two portions of chips

500g extra lean pork mince

Small pinch of fresh, chopped coriander

I red chilli, chopped finely

3 tbsp olive oil

2 tbsp toasted sesame oil

1 tbsp soya sauce

3 tbsp fish sauce

3 tbsp lime juice

1 tbsp dried basil

1 tbsp red wine vinegar

2 tbsp chilli powder

1 tsp sugar

1 tbsp dried mint

1/2 bag of watercress, baby spinach and rocket salad

1 orange pepper, sliced

1/2 cucumber, sliced into ribbons

Sweet chilli sauce, as much as you want

Salt and pepper to serve

Method

First prepare your chips. Preheat your oven to 200'.

Peel the potatoes, chop them into wedge shapes. 

Then up them in a pan of cool water and bring to the boil. Then drain your chips, place them on an oven tray. Drizzle them with the olive oil and liberally shake salt and pepper all them. Place them in the oven for 30 minutes, taking them out and shaking them halfway through the cooking time.

Whilst your chips are cooking, start on your burgers. Mix together the soya sauce, 1 tbsp lime juice, 1 tbsp fish sauce, the red wine vinegar, 1 tbsp chilli powder, 1 tbsp sesame oil and the basil. 

Put the pork mince, half of the chilli and the chopped coriander in a large mixing bowl. Pour in your mixture then mix everything together with your hands. Next shape them into six small burger shaped. Put them on a plate, cover and leave in the fridge until your chips have 10 minutes left.

Next prepare the salad and dressing. Mix together the rest of the oil, lime juice, fish sauce, chilli powder. Then add the sugar and mint and a splash of water. Combine  the salad, pepper and cucumber and set aside.

Preheat your grill.

After 20 minutes, place the burgers on the grill and cook them for 5 minutes on each side or until cooked all the way through and dark on the outside.

Put everything on a plate then drizzle with the sweet chilli sauce

Calories: 660