• 4 slices white bread
• about 125 ml(4 fl oz/½ cup) milk
• 500 g(1 lb2 oz) minced (ground) pork and beef
• 2 tablespoons chopped parsley
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• juice of 1 lemon

Tear the bread into pieces and put it in a small bowl. Add the milk and leave it to soak for a while, turning the bread over a few times with a spoon until it has completely collapsed.

Put the meat and parsley in a bowl and season well with salt. Add the bread and milk mixture and then knead and squish the mixture through your fingers until it is completely smooth. Divide into 8 portions and shape into balls or ovals (your mixture might be quite soft and wobbly to shape but that’s what makes the cooked patties so good).

Heat a non-stick frying pan on the stovetop. Put the patties into the hot pan and flatten them to about 1 cm(½ inch) thick. Fry them over medium heat until they are deep golden brown and crusty underneath, then gently flip them over with a spatula. Cook until the new underside is crusty and deep golden brown, then check that the inside is cooked through. Lift out onto a serving plate.

Mix the oil and lemon juice together, add some salt and pour over the patties while they are still warm.