Meat Fondue and Dipping Sauces

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This delicious meal comprised of 3 main recipes: beef soup base, dipping sauces and coleslaw:



Soup Base
620 mL Beef broth
620 mL Water
2 c. Red wine
1 tbsp Hot chilli sauce
4 Onions, chopped
4 Green onions, chopped
1 c. Fresh parsley
2-3 Bay leaves
1-2 cloves Garlic, minced

Fried the onions and the garlic.

Add all the ingredients in a large pot and simmer for an hour.



Curry Dipping Sauce
1 c. Hellmann's light mayo
1 clove Garlic, minced
1 tsp Green curry paste
1 tsp Horse radish sauce
1 tsp Onion, minced
1 tsp Balsamic vinegar
Sprinkle of tarragon

Dijion Mustard Sauce
1/2 c. Hellmann's light mayo
1/2 c. Dijion Mustard
Black pepper corn, grounded

Curry Mustard Sauce
1-2 cloves Garlic, minced
1 tsp Curry powder
1 tsp Dill
1/2 tsp Crushed chilli pepper
1 c. Hellmann's light mayo
3 tbsp Chilli garlic sauce

For all the dipping sauces, mix all the ingredients together.

Serve with fondue meat. Also great with bread and veggies.


Coleslaw
1/2 head Cabbage, finely chopped
3 Green onions, chopped
1/8 tsp Onion powder
1/8 tsp Celery salt
1/8 tsp salt
1 tbsp Pepper
3 tbsp Sugar
2 tbsp Lemon juice (approx. 1/2 lemon)
2 tbsp Balsamic vinegar
2 tbsp Dijion mustard
3/4 c. Hellmann's light mayo
1/3 c. Vegetable oil
1/8 c. 5% Cream

In a large bowl, add all the wet and powder ingredients. Mix well.

Stir in the cabbage and green onions.

Serve cold.

My comments:

My hubby surprised me with this delicious fondue on my birthday. He did all the preparation and cooking by himself; it was a lot of work. He was such a sweetie!!

We used beef and chicken because they were on sale, but this would taste just as good with pork or seafood. The flavour of the broth really adds to the taste of the meat. We only used 1/2 of the broth, so we freezed the other 1/2 for another meal.

The dipping sauces were awesome! They were easy to make and great with bread, meat and veggie sticks. The best thing about these recipes is that you can find most of these ingredients in your kitchen and you can adjust the flavour according to your preferene. We like spicy stuff, so we added hot chilli sauces in most of our recipes. We bought the chilli garlic sauce in Chinatown but you can certainly substitute with your favourite hot sauce (or not add any at all).

As for the coleslaw, this was my hubby's creation. I don't normally like coleslaw but I went back for seconds, and thirds and forths... It was that good!!

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