Page 22 - Cooking away from China - Cookbook by Catherine Liu

Mashed potatoes

cheese beef tortilla

This satisfying wonder is all about rich texture and minimal

ingredients. There's something magical going on in this
dish - the melt cheese is stringly and its marriage with the
tortilla gives you a bite of pizza!
My mouth is already watering by simply imagining making
this dish - I can have it everyday!

1 pan
low-fat 20 minutes pan-frying
1 bowl & 1 plate

What to Prepare How to Make It

100g beef mince 1. Get a pan to a medium-high. Peel and cube your
1 medium potato potato and add to a bowl, with water (or your milk)

1 tortilla 2. to just cover the bottom of the potato cubes.
Cover with film and send to the microwave to spin
1 cup mozzarella / 1-2 for 4 minutes - microwave is a good friend to save

cheese slices your time!
2 mixed bell pepper 3. Whilst the microwave is working, let's prepare for

1/2 onion (any colour) 4. the veg - dice the onion and pepper.
Drop oil onto the pan, add the onion, fry until you
water (or milk for a can smell it and introduce our beef.
luxurious creamy taste!) 5. Stir to scatter the beef and as it starts to turn

salt brown, sprinkle salt and black pepper, stirring
black pepper 6. regularly to apply the flavour evenly.
Stir in the diced peppers, fry until you can smell
olive oil them and remove everything in the pan to a plate.
Reduce fire to the lowest.
7. Remember our potato friend? It has stayed enough
in the microwave, so take it out, sprinkle salt and
pepper and simply with a spoon - mash it!
8. Let's return to the pan - place the tortilla on the
pan, heat for seconds and turn to the other side.
9. Again - with your spoon, apply the mashed
potatoes onto a half of the tortilla down below,
and cover with the beef mixture.
10. Introduce our soul of the dish - cheese - spread
evenly, if you choose the mozzarella, or with the
cheese slices, simply put a layer of them to cover.
11. Last but not least, cover with the other half of the
tortilla, and turn it to another side to melt the
My final words cheese.

When applying the mashed potatoes onto 12. Be patient and wait for the cheese to melt, remove
the tortilla, try removing the pan from the to the plate and half it to enjoy!
fire before your tortilla gets too dry!

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