Spiced Apple Beef Patties
This recipe for Spiced Apple Beef Patties is interesting with the use of rice and spiced apple rings (are they flat porcupine meatballs?).
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Spiced Apple Beef Patties (VRP 400)
Ingredients
- 1 pound ground beef
- 1 slightly beaten egg
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1/2 of a 5 ounce jar spiced apple rings (5 rings)
- 2 tablespoons cornstarch
- 1 cup cooked rice
- 1 teaspoon monosodium glutamate
- 1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
- 1 tablespoon lemon juice
Instructions
- Thoroughly combine meat, rice, and 1/2 cup water, the egg, monosodium glutamate, salt, and Worcestershire sauce.
- Shape into 5 thick patties
- Place in shallow baking pan
- Drain apple rings, reserving 1/2 cup syrup
- Press an apple ring onto each patty
- Bake, uncovered, in a moderate oven (350 F) for 35 minutes
- Meanwhile, combine reserved apple syrup, corn syrup, and lemon juice in a saucepan
- Stire 2 teaspoons water into cornstarch
- Add to syrup mixture
- Cook and stir till mixture is thickened and bubbly
- Spoon onto patties
- Bake 5 more minutes