easy recipes

pickle

Chicken and vege soup

Boil a chicken until well cooked in water (enough to cover chicken )
Drain and store the stock
Cool chicken and pull meat off and chop up finely

Then add chicken to stock, add lots of chopped veges (broccoli, carrot, celery, potato, cauliflour and so on in fairly large pieces about an inch), add a tin of chopped tomatos and handful of rice. Cook for about 1/2 hour, topping up water as necessary. Then add about 4-5 vege or chicken stock cubes and salt and pepper to taste and cook for a further 10- 20 mins or so. When ready the veges should be well cooked and should be very tasty.

Rachie_B

yeah lots of the campbells recipes may be good for him http://www.campbellsoup.co.uk/

this is dead easy ,was taken from a childs cookery book

COCONUT CHICKEN

2 medium onions
3 cloves garlic
1 tsp ground ginger
1 tsp chilli powder
pinch salt & pepper
3 tbsp oil
1 lemon
4 skinless chicken breasts
2oz creamed coconut
1/2 pint hot water

1) peel and chop onions,peel and crush garlic.mix ginger,chilli,salt & pepper in a bowl

2)heat oil in a pan ,add the chicken breasts and gently cook for 5 mins on each side.

3) lift chicken breasts onto paper towel and pat to remove excess oil

4) cut lemon in half and squeeze it,sprinkle the chicken with the spice mixture and some lemon huice

5) grate the creamed coconut finely.put it in a bowl with the hot water and whisk it until it looks like milk

6) heat the oil in the pan again,cook the onions and garlic over a low heat til they are soft

7) put the chicken back in the frying pan & pour the coconut mixture over it.stir everything together.

8) cook for about 20 mins until the chicken is cooked right through

saving-grace

Spicy chicken

Chop skinless chicken breasts (1 per person) into small pieces (kitchen scissors can be used instead of a knife if you like)
Place in a bowl and pour in a spoonful or two of sunflower oil, just enough to lightly coat the pieces when stirred
Add a couple of teaspoons of tikka spice mixture and stir to coat thoroughly.
Cook in a large frying pan/saute pan until thoroughly cooked
Serve on a bed of salad.

This was invented by my teenage DS and DD including the salad bit!

Nice served with potato wedges, baked potatoes or just bread.

molesworth

Poor man's carbonara (uses creme fraiche instead of cream)

Very easy and tasty. My student daughter searched long and hard for a recipe "as good as restaurant carbonara" and this is the one she likes. You can decide on your own proportions but a small tub of creme fraiche should do two people (although daughter likes to use more when I am paying!). Daughter often omits the mushrooms (when she's paying).

onion chopped
olive oil
mushrooms sliced
bacon slices chopped
creme fraiche
spaghetti
fresh black pepper

Fry onion, bacon and mushrooms until soft. add creme fraiche and plenty of ground black pepper to taste. Heat through. Add cooked spaghetti to sauce, stir and serve (with lots of fresh Parmesan)

nabowla

How about getting him to try one new cooking technique each week? Eg next week's recipe could be used to teach him to cut an onion. Wonder if Delia Smith's 'How to Cook' series might be a good start? I've not used it myself but I gather book one starts right at the beginning and assumes that the reader doesn't know how to do anything in the kitchen, not even boiling an egg. You could always borrow a copy from the library to see what you think.

pandas66

that is a good idea, thanks. He is a very cak handed lad, he's mastered the art of 'doing it wrong and getting someone else to do it' even his younger brother!
I have shown him this thread and said pick 1 and do it next week, he was embarrassed, then really pleased.

Rachie_B

aww at least he wants to have a go though bless him,most lads his age wouldnt want to know

so good on him : )

elona

If you have a slow cooker then stuff can just be left in there till later in the day and he will not have to rush or else hover over pots and pans.

pandas66

We do have a slow cooker but I can't use it as when I'm at work it sends the poor dog into a mad man, the delicious smells all day.

Son also wants fairly quick gratification at the moment too! I'm happy for him to do a toasted sandwhich and a bowl of soup.
When he was up to about 10 he was a helpful little man, quite the Mummies little soldier but he's gone Kevin on me, so for him to grunt enough for me to hear him I shall help him along to cook, bless.

pandas66

Hi an update on my cooking lad...............

Well tonight he's doing chicken and apple curry.........

smells wonderful

he's doing 2 as I'm a wuss in the spice stakes, so he's done his Mum a nice cooler one and making a hotter 1 for him, his brother and a mate! Serving with rice and nans.
So he's peeled and chopped onions and apples
gently fried the onion and apples added the curry powder, set to 1 side, cooked the chicken and then added together with some stock and its looking and smelling good!

He's quite pleased with himself and the mate whose called is impressed on a miserable dull afternoon he's enjoying putting a meal together.
I have to add to that he went off to the shop himself and got all the ingredients.