Tangy Gammon with Red Wine (first recipe post!)

I thought I'd start a new series of blog posts with some the 'make it up as you go along' recipes I cook for my family! So, here we go. We'll call this Tangy Gammon with Red Wine. Cos that's what it was. *ahem*

No picture of the food, I'm afraid as we just ate it. But, suffice to say it looks like what it sounds like. It tastes... well, tangy. Like it has a bit of lemon juice in it, except it doesn't. Chinese-y without knocking your socks off.

Gammon with Red Wine and Spices (feeds 4, should take 30 minutes to prep and cook)

Ingredients

Main part
2 large gammon steaks, cubed
2 courgettes, sliced
1 orange pepper, chopped
2 cups of rice

Sauce
250ml red wine
Splash of worcester sauce
2 tsp hot curry powder
2 tsp ground cumin
2 tsp paprika
1 tbsp mixed herbs
1 tbsp flour
50ml water

Method
Rice

1. Boil water in a saucepan for the rice.
2. Once it's boiled, add the rice and boil for 10 minutes.
3. Once cooked to your taste, drain the rice into a sieve and then put it back in the saucepan.
4. Cover and leave on the side. It won't cool down so much that it will taste cold.

Main part

1. Hit 2 tbsp of olive oil in a wok.
2. Add the gammon cubes, stir fry for about 5 minutes.
3. Add the veg. Stir fry for another 5 minutes.
4. Cover and leave to cook in the juices for 5-10 minutes while you do the sauce (and probably drain the rice).

Prepare the sauce

1. Put the red wine, worcester sauce, water, curry powder, cumin, paprika and mixed herbs into a jug.
2. Stir it all together. Be careful, remember red wine stains!
3. Add the flour and stir.
4. Use a whisk to mix vigourously and to get rid of the lumps that will now be there!
5. Put the sauce into the wok with everything else.
6. Cover and cook for 10-15 minutes, stirring occasionally.

Serve the rice in a bowl first then spoon the meat etc on top. I recommend a slotted spoon so that you don't end up with loads of sauce in the bowl at the end, but make sure you get some in there as it tastes quite nice!

Feedback welcome!