does anyone remember rissoles?

Question

my mum used to buy them from waitrose about 15 years ago

Answer 1

They were a family favourite but they were made with leftover roast meat and since few people cook much these days, you don't see them any more.

You can find a recipe in an old-fashioned cook book. Essentially, it's cold roast meat minced fine, mixed with beaten egg, chopped onion and herbs, shaped into little sausages, rolled in beaten egg and breadcrumbs and fried.

They're best made with lamb. The idea originally came from North Africa I think.

Answer 2

Unfortunately, yes - when I was a kid, my mother bought some rissoles and the one I was eating had a long length of nylon line in the middle of it....the offending rissole was taken back to our friendly local shop for inspection. They returned it to Birds Eye foods. After a short time, a rather gushing letter of apology arrived along with an enormous box of foodstuffs of the rissole persuasion. They took months to get through. I got sick of rissoles.

Answer 3

My nanny used to make rissoles. We'd have roast joint on sunday. Cold meat salad and potatoes or chips on Monday. Rissoles on Tuesday and curry on Wednesday.

To make the rissoles she'd put a chunk of the joint through a mincer and mix it with eggs, onion, garlic, a small handful of soft breadcrumbs or porrige oats, salt, pepper, mustard and appropriate flavouring for meat (eg mint with lamb, horseradish with beef). It was then my job to roll up a handfull of the mixture into a short sausage shape, dip in beaten egg and roll in crisp (oven baked) breadcrumbs. These were then shallow fried .

Thank you for the memory.

Answer 4

Try your local fish shop - rissole and chips is very popular though I dont see the attraction myself!!

Answer 5

Used to love rissoles - then he divorced me 'cos of my dyslexia...