Hoffelgritz Aka To Our Surprise Cincinnati Goetta Recipes

GOETTA

Steps:

• In a large pot bring water to a boil and add oats, salt and pepper-reduce to a simmer, cover and cook for 2 hours.
• Add meat, onion, spices and cover, cooking for 1 hour more.
• Pour into pan/s-cool and then refrigerate.
• Turn out, slice and fry until brown in a bit of butter or oil.

GOETTA RECIPE - (4.2/5)

Steps:

• Line the pot with the bag. Bring water, salt, bay leaves and pepper to boil in a slow cooker set to High. (If this isn't happening, cheat... start it up on the stove... and dump in to a warmed up crock pot that has a little water in it already). Stir in steel cut oats, cover, and cook 90 minutes. In a large bowl, mix beef, pork, onions and garlic. Stir into the oat mixture, and reduce heat to Low. Cover, and continue cooking 1.5 - 2 hours, stirring occasionally. SPECIAL NOTE: I had doubled the original recipe the first time and had 5 cups of oats and 4 cups of meat... NO WAY it would all fit in the crock pot. If the mixture seems to be too much to add to the crock pot at this time, simply take it out after the oats are finished cooking and transfer to a large roasting pan (such as a Turkey Roaster). Set the temp to 300 degrees. Mix the Oats and Meat together and continue cooking in oven for about 90 minutes, stirring every 30 minutes. Continue to the next step... everything will be fine. Remember, you are only partially cooking the Goetta. It will be fully cooked when you fry it for breakfast. Transfer the mixture to a medium baking pan/ loaf pans lined with plastic wrap (easier to remove and clean), and cool until semi-solid by chilling 1 hour or more in the refrigerator, or until firm. I did this at night, so I covered with plastic wrap and left in refrigerator overnight. After completely cooled, turn out onto wax paper onto cutting board, and cut into thin slices. Heat oil in a large, heavy skillet over medium high heat. Cook slices one at a time in the heated oil until evenly brown on each side. You can freeze the slices up to 3 months if you are not ready to eat the entire mixture at once. Just put freezer paper between slices. Pull out and defrost what you need and fry up one at time when ready. Be careful in oil, if any frozen ice hits the oil.

HOFFELGRITZ - AKA (TO OUR SURPRISE!) CINCINNATI GOETTA

Steps:

• Dice onion.
• Melt 2 ounces butter in heavy bottomed pot or dutch oven.
• Add onion & sauté on low heat until translucent. Remove onion & butter - set aside.
• Add ground round to pot and sauté until no pink or red is visible.
• Drain beef fat if more than a tablespoon or so, but leave any browned crispies in pot.
• Return onions and butter to pot with beef. Raise heat to medium-low and when sizzling nicely, add steel-cut oats and stir until all grains are nicely coated with fats and they begin to make popping sounds.
• Add water and salt all at once and bring to simmer, then turn heat to low.
• Cover and let simmer for 30 minutes, stirring occasionally. Add dabs of butter as it thickens. Add more water if grains are not fully cooked but porridge thick. Season to taste with salt and pepper.
• Turn thickened porridge into aluminum foil lined bread pans and either refrigerate or freeze. If freezing, once frozen, remove from bread pans & store in the aluminum foil within freezer bags. Thaw in fridge to slice.
• Sauté slices until crisp in a dab of butter you have heated until sizzling in the pan--it's so good!

WASSAIL

Steps:

• Combine sugar and water and boil for 10 minutes. Add spices.
• Let mixture stand in warm place for at least 1 hour OR overnight.
• Add juice and cider. Bring to a boil and serve.

VENISON GOETTA

Steps:

• Combine venison, hot water and onion in a large skillet.
• Strip bay leaf from vein and finely crumble into skillet.
• Simmer until meat is no longer pink and onion is tender. Add pepper, oatmeal and salt. Stir quickly and cook for 3 minutes.
• Remove from heat and season with onion powder, thyme, sage, nutmeg and crushed red pepper.
• Spoon meat mixture into loaf pan sprayed with vegetable oil spray. Let stand until firm.
• Remove from pan, cut loaf in half and wrap each half in plastic wrap.
• Freeze one and refrigerate the other.
• To use, slice meat 1/4-inch thick, coat gently with flour and pan fry in small amount of butter or vegetable oil until broned on each side. Serve with eggs and toast for breakfast.
• *you can add more crushed red pepper flakes to taste.

CROCK POT GOETTA

Steps:

• Place water, oats, salt and pepper into the crock pot and mix well.
• Cover and cook on high for 1 hour, stirring 2 or 3 times.
• Add meats and break up well.
• Add onion, sage, thyme and bay.
• cook for 4 hours on low, stirring now and again.
• Uncover and add cornmeal-stir well.
• Cook uncovered for 30 minutes.
• Turn out into 3 loaf pans, cool and chill in fridge.
• When set turn out and freeze what you want.
• Slice and fry in a little butter or oil until brown and crusty, but dont let them touch in the pan or they will run.