Beef Mushroom Melt Sandwich

So these days people who I have no beef or larai with are having beef with me.

Also I fell down while running on a grater patterned metal bridge and scratched my leg pretty bad with deep wounds just like the deep wounds some people have given to my heart in recent times.

For some people wounds heal with bandages and antiseptics. For me they only heal with good food.

It is the weekend so I wanted something simple and something I could make without much effort. I was eyeing on grilled cheese sandwiches and I thought let's made Beef Mushroom Melt Sandwich.

Beef and mushroom goes hand in hand like me, video games, hard rock music and some other things which I cannot tell due to privacy.

I cut the beef in thin slices the night before. Used the chuck steak but you guys can use any piece for it.

This was extremely easy and fun to make. If you have kids, adults who pretend to be kids or they just simply can't grow up they will enjoy it a lot.

The ingredients mentioned below are for 2 sandwiches only.

INGREDIENTS:

200 Grams of beef steak thinly sliced

1 Onion sliced

5-6 Mushrooms white or button

Salted butter

Salt and pepper to taste

Pinch of garlic powder

Slices of two or one different types of your favorite cheese

4 Bread slices of your choice

Start with putting a little oil on a grill pan and cooking the thin beef slices on it.

Season the beef with salt, black pepper and garlic powder. If you don't have garlic powder then it is alright. Everyone doesn't have everything.

Depending on your liking you can cook your beef to well done or just medium. Since these are thin cuts they won't take much time to cook to well done. Just around 2-3 minutes.

Put the cooked beef aside and it is time to cut our shrooms and onion.

Put one or two tablespoons of oil in a pan and a cube of butter. Start cooking onions and mushrooms on low heat.

Seasons the onions and mushrooms with salt and black pepper.

Caramelizing onions and cooking mushrooms will take 5-10 minutes.

Time to assemble the sandwich. Felt like Nick Fury assembling the Avengers for the first time if you ask me.

I used oatnuts bread but you guys go ahead and use any that you want.

Place two slices of cheese on the bread and top it up with beef, caramelized onions and shrooms.

Place two more cheese slices on it and cover it with the second bread slice.

Put butter in the pan and keep the heat on medium low.

Add the sandwich two the pan and cook each side for 3-4 minutes.

Slice the sandwich in half to see a glimpse of pure beauty.

I had some oven baked jalapeno chips on the side and here you go. Don't envy me for eating this all by myself.

Cheesy Taco Pasta

Have you ever thought of infusing the taco filling with a pasta? NO? I also did not but I came around a recipe on facebook which is known as Cheesy Taco Pasta and this recipe will satisfy your need for pasta, beef and cheese.

INGREDIENTS:

500 grams minced beef

400 grams canned chopped tomatoes

3 pickled jalapenos

350 grams pasta

1/2 onion finely chopped

salt per taste

2/3rd cup cheddar cheese or more

2/3rd cup mozzarella cheese or more

1/2 cup reserved boiled pasta water

2 tablespoons taco seasoning (ingredients for taco seasoning mention below)

handful of coriander finely chopped for garnishing

INGREDIENTS FOR TACO SEASONING:

1 tablespoon red chhili powder

1/4 teaspoon garlic powder

1/4 teaspoon ginger powder

1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper flakes

1/4 teaspoon dried oregano

1/2 teaspoon paprika

1 1/2 teaspoon ground cumin

1 teaspoon salt

1 teaspoon black pepper

Boil the pasta according to the packet's instructions and reserves 1/4 cup of boiled pasta water.

Chop the onions and the jalapenos finely.

Heat 2 tablespoons of olive oil in pan on medium heat and add chopped onions. Season them well with salt and cook them until they are transparent and tender for about 5 minutes.

Add the chopped jalapenos and cook for another 2 minutes.

Add minced beef and cook until it is not pink any more around 8-10 minutes.

Meanwhile in a grinder mix up the taco seasoning together.

Add the taco seasoning and drain any excessive fat present in the pan.

Mix the seasoning well with the minced beef.

Add the canned tomato and pasta water.

Start adding the shredded cheese as well and keep stirring it for a while until the liquid is about to dry.

Add the cooked pasta now and mix it well. Cheesy Taco Pasta is ready to go into our stomachs.

Sprinkle some finely chopped coriander over the pasta placed nicely in a bowl. Add sliced pickled jalapenos on the side as well and you are good to go for one pasta that you will never forget.