Stab stacks of steakettes as described below. Set aside.
Slice and fry up onions till caramelised.
Butter the bread slices. Crack an egg into a hot oiled non stick
frypan and using a spatula form the white to a sqare shape just
smaller than the bread. Break the yolk and distribute. When still
undercooked place the butter bread slice over and cook 20 seconds.
Remove to the plate. Repeat 3 more times.
Meanwhile, put two steakettes in a pan with butter and fry 20 seconds. Turn and
fry 15 seconds. Bring one over the top of the other to make a shape
the size of the bread slice. Add two slices of cheese to the top,
cover with a lid and fry 20 seconds. Remove lid and mop up excess
moisture. Cook 1 minute. Remove to absorbent paper. When all done
and rested begin the assembly.
Set the steakette on a buttered slice of bread. Top with a generous
amount of fried onion. Put on a generous amount of BBQ sauce. Top
with the fried egg and bread. With a clean knife
blade and hands cut in half diagonally and plate.
Stab the steak::
Get your 8 steakettes and stack. Stab through 16 times with a sharp
thin bladed knife in one direction evenly spaced across the pile.
Turn the stack upside down and repeat at 90 degrees. Like a deck of
cards shuffle the stack by splitting in the middle and turning
inside out so that what was in the middle is now the outside. Repeat
the stabbing 90 deg diagonally top and bottom. The idea is to get the meat
to easily seperate but still keep it intact enough to cook and
handle. Its actually easier than it sounds.
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Peel and then slice potato 4.5mm thick. Ideally use a mandolin
slicer. Par boil in salted water for 2 minutes. Rinse with cold
water.
Sift the flour with salt and sugar. Add the
egg and then enough water to make a thin to medium thin batter. The batter should run from the whisk. If it sticks its too
thick. Stand 10 minutes.
Coat the potato slices with flour and 2 or 3 at a time put in
the batter. Use 2 wooden skewers to lift up. Let excess batter run
off scallop and slowly lower into the oil.
Deep fry at 165° for 90 seconds. Remove and drain on a rack. Let
cool and freeze.
Deep fry thawed scallops at 180° till golden. 5 minutes.
Serve as a side with BBQ sauce.
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8 Slices Tip Top white sandwich bread
8 Steakettes (Thin scotch fillet)
4 medium onions
8 Cheddar Cheese slices
4 Eggs
Butter
BBQ sauce
Steakettes are topside steak thinnly sliced. Woolworths sell them in
packs of 8. More onion is better than less so I use as much as 1 medium onion
per sandwich.
Recently Wooloworths started selling thinnly sliced Scotch fillet
steak. This works really well. More tender, slightly thicker steak
with fat through it.
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BBQ Scallops::
1 very Large Sebago Potato
140g plain Flour
1 egg (room temp)
4g Salt
4g sugar
150ml water (warm)
as needed
60g Flour extra
This is a classic Australian sandwich served in every snack bar and
takeaway worth its salt. The world is full of great sandwiches from
every part of the globe. I have had many and all good. I believe
that this sandwich deserves to be considered in the top line of
sandwiches. It really is good. Big Mac type of good.
There is a trend in franchised restaurants and cafes to up the
(quality) with thicker breads, better cuts of steak and more
elements. Despite the perception that this must surely be better
they just aren't. They can be and are good in their own right but
miss the mark on a perfect recipe, at greatly increased cost.
This recipe is superb in its flavours and texture. Everything in the
right ratio. Fresh Tip Top white sandwich bread sets the base. The
idea of stabbing the steakettes is to make it very easy to eat.
Otherwise you are chomping and pulling and the sandwich quickly
declines into a torn, soggy mess. This is in fact how its been done
for 60 years and how it will always be done. If you like BBQ sauce
you are going to love this.
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