Highway…

I blogged about this brand of corned beef before…

…and yes, we thought it was all right, just that this Brazilian product is a few ringgit more expensive than our favourite brand…

…so we would not bother buying it when the latter is available.

My sister gave me a can sometime ago – she said that she bought two when the ones from Linkz were not available. I can’t remember what she said was the reason why she was not all that fond of it.

I opened it the other day and I noticed that there were very few traces of white – no fat and the meat was minced till really very fine…

The one from New Zealand, Palm Brand, I think, is very coarse, like pulled meat and I thought it was very nice. My girl did not like it though and since it is VERY expensive these days, I never bother buying anymore.

These were the ingredients…

…that I prepared for use that day. Normally, we would fry the onions in a bit of oil first and some people may prefer to cook the chunks of potatoes in the oil too, nicely fried till a bit charred on some sides, instead of boiling them first. I did not want to do that as I did not want to add any oil to it.

I fried the corned beef for a long while and it was as I suspected. There was very little fat so not much oil could be derived from the corned beef. Nonetheless, I just carried on and added the sliced onion, strips of chili and curry leaves to the corned beef and went on frying till I felt it was done. I threw in the potatoes that I had boiled, mixed everything together well before dishing it all out…

…and serving it.

I thought it was all right. No, it was not too salty but I felt it was kind of dry – perhaps it would be nicer if I had fried it in a bit of oil instead.