Store cupboard challenge

juliapenguin

Sorry, I should have added that I'm really sorry you're having a horrible time financially and I hope you're soon feeling less under pressure xxx

Pink.

Hi Samantha,

These threads may help:

red lentils

Aduki Beans - What a fab ingredient

what to do with Gram Flour?

I prefer carrot and coriander soup made with fresh coriander, but I've made it before just using ground seeds and it nobody else noticed the difference.

I'll add your thread to the storecupboard thread once you've had some more ideas.

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Vaila

I usually make gillian mckeiths shepherdess pie when i have pulses such as aduki beans to use
http://www.gillianmckeithclub.com/resources/recipes/recipeOTW85.php

skyvicky123

I pop adzuki beans in all my pasta bakes, as the kids just think they're funny looking baked beans! You can make your own really cheap pasta bake with tinned toms and any other cupboard odds like tinned tuna chucked in too. Pretty much anything goes really. I only make it for the kids and freeze extra portions uncooked (pasta uncooked too) and it seems to defrost and re-heat ok.

Vaila

I do exactly the same skyvicky123,aduki beans and tomato based sauces go really well together

misskool

I make a sweet dessert from mung beans and aduki beans. Boil them up until they are really soft, then a bit of coconut cream and then sugar. You can make it less fattening by using evaporated milk instead of coconut cream. It's a very common Chinese/Japanese desert/snack

Aduki bean paste is the ingredient in mochi. http://en.christinesrecipes.com/2009/05/red-bean-mochi-recipe.html

star2007

The chick pea flour I use to make a vegan frittata. Boil some new potatoes in a pan and fry a sliced onion in a frying pan. Drain & slice the potatoes and add to the onions. You can add some other veg like mushrooms and peppers. Sieve about 1 cup of chick pea flour, whisk with a cup of water, so it's about the consistancy of gloopy double cream. Season with s & p. Add a drop more oil to the pan, pour over the veg and cook on a low moderate heat till nearly set. Either flip over in the pan or finish off under the grill for a couple of mins.

Other nice things are onion bhajis, eggless pancakes - use a mixture of chick pea flour and wheat flour. There's also a provençal dish called socca that's basically a cross between a frittata and a pancake.

With the aduki beans I make Red Dragon Pie, fry onion, garlic, herbs, chilli, other veg like carrots celery mushrooms pepper. Add a tin of tomatoes and the equivalent of a tin of cooked adukis.... Basically it's making a veg chilli. Tip into an ovenware dish, top with mashed potato and bake for about 25 mins.

mi_jardin

I have used aduki beans instead of kidney beans in a chilli before, if memory serves don't they look like small kidney beans?

mcculloch29

Taking a little liberty with sell - by dates I made 5 storecupboard pizzas. I had an OOD breadmix which turned out to be fine for the pizza bases. Topping: A huge 750 g salami that was 1 day OOD, Aldi's Super 6 fresh tomatoes, and mushrooms an OOD tom puree, small jar of pasta sauce and a pound of onions that had lurked in the cupboard cooked together in a pan and spread over base, topped with a mix of Double Gloucester and Mature Cheddar.
Pizzas were family sized rectangles. I think a tenner's worth of ingredients would have been over £20 bought ready- made. (I should add, the two we ate were lovely!)

star2007

Yes, they do look like minature kidney beans