Lamb Paprika and Pistachio burgers

Another post another pistachio recipe, seems to be my love at present!

Ingredients:
500g lamb mince
2 tablespoons crushed pistachios
3 tablespoons honey
1 1/2 tablespoons smoked paprika
1 tablespoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon chilli flakes
1 teaspoon mixed spice
Salt and pepper

Method:
1. Mix all ingredients apart from the honey and leave for 20/30 minutes

2. Add the honey and mix again

3. Form into burger shapes (i made 2 koftas with leftovers)

4. Cook at 190c for about 20 mins, turn over half way through

5. Allow to cool slightly and slice. Serve on top of salad leaves, radishes, beetroot and pepper

Sweet Potato with Pistachio and Pomegranate Guacamole

After a couple of weeks of the new site here goes for the first actual recipe on here.

I winded up with lots of leftover pistachios and pomegranate after a Turkish inspired lamb burger salad recipe (no photos unfortunately!). After looking for some inspiration the majority of recipes I found were either American and therefore obsessed with cilantro/chipotle and generally pretty rubbish. However it did give me the idea of using sweet potato for the meal.

Ingredients:
2 sweet potatoes
1 tablespoon honey
1 teaspoon Cholula chilli hot sauce
Sprinkle of smoked paprika

1 avocado
2 tablespoons chopped pistachios
2 tablespoon pomegranate
Half a lime

Method:
1. I started by simply roasting the sweet potato in the oven, 200c for an hour.

2. Then I sliced open the sweet potato and took out all the inside leaving just the skins. I then mixed with the honey, smoked paprika and the hot sauce. I then placed all of this back into the skins

3. I then broke up the avocado as fine as possible with a fork, then added the juice of half a lime the chopped pistachios and pomegranate and mixed well.

4. Then add this onto the top of the sweet potato. Voila!

Sorry for the messy pic I was so hungry by this point I was desperate to devour it