Store cupboard challenge

fizzel81

butterbean pate

Ingredients
½ red onion, peeled and finely chopped
can of butter beans, drained
good squirt of lemon juice
dash of olive oil
salt and freshly ground black pepper



Method
1. Put the onion into a bowl with the butter beans, lemon juice and olive oil.
2. Mix the ingredients with a blender to make a smooth pâté, or simply mash for a more textured paste
3. Add more lemon juice for a sharper taste, and add seasoning as required

or

curried butter beans
I can butter beans
1/2 can tomatoes
1 small onion
1 tbsp minced garlic & ginger
1 tbsp curry powder or marsala
pinch salt
a few curry leaves
1/2 tbsp olive or canola oil

Chop or slice onion and fry in oil until soft but not brown. Add curry powder/marsala and then mashed tomatoes, salt and garlic & ginger.


Simmer for five minutes and add butter beans and curry leaves. Simmer a further 10 minutes adding liquid from bean can if necessary to moisten. These are good hot or cold.


found both of these on internet they sound good

nicki_2

I have loads of frozen kidney beans and I don't know what to do with them now the warmer weather is here (I usually use them in stews etc to bulk them out). We don't eat chilli so thats out :rolleyes: Any other ideas?

lil_me

http://www.recipes.eu.com/recipes29subcat0

Loads of ideas on there Nicki, I usually do veg, mince or chicken in a tomato sauce with kidney beans and use them to fill tortillas, nachos, pitta bread etc.

shell2001

I make a pasta soup - passata, onion, carrot, mushrooms, garlic, parsley, celery and added a tin of kidney beans. Usually use up whatever veg is left in the bottom of the fridge but find this really tasty and filling.

EmmaJ_3

I'm new to OS, I've been lurking and reading and learnt so much from all of you already. I'm about to graduate (fingers crossed) and join the 'real world' so as everything is a fresh start I want to try and go as OS as poss.

We move house on Wednesday, so I need to clear out my freezer, I've done an inventory but not quite sure what to do.

Yesterday was my first 100% storecupboard challenge day - I made a quinoa & mixed bean salad for lunch (can of mixed beans), then for dinner, 2 quorn fillets from the freezer, cooked in 'mushroom sauce' (can of creamed mushrooms, worked very well, no idea when I bought that!), with the rest of the quinoa & beans and some broccoli (from the freezer).

Want to use up the freezer & veg......I don't mind moving the storecupboard stuff too much! We move on weds, but going to a wedding on sat and formal dinner on sun.

I have left:

Freezer:
Some quorn 'chicken-style' pieces
Quorn mince (v. small amount)
2 x salmon fillets
2 x chicken breasts
Corn on the cob (masses)
Broccoli
Oven chips

Veg:
Onions x 2
Garlic
Sweet potatoes x 2
A few shallots

Storecupboard:
Bulghar wheat
Quinoa
Rice - risotto, wholewheat, 2 x flavoured packets (golden vegetable and lemon & parsley)
Packet cheese sauce
Packet lamb hotpot mix
Peanut butter
Jar onion & garlic pasta sauce
Jar balti cooking sauce
Jar tikka massala cooking sauce
Lasagne sheets
Tins sweetcorn (x about 5!!)
Baked beans x 2
Spaghetti hoops
Ryvita
Sliced beetroot
Tin kidney beans
Tin green lentils
Cream of tomato soup
Mediterranean tomato soup
Tin cannelini beans
Tin water chestnuts
Pearl barley
Dried pulses: red lentils, chickpeas, kidney beans, chana dahl, black-eyed beans
Tin pears, tin peaches, tin summer fruit.
Some baking stuff - various flours & sugars, sultanas, cocoa powder.

Tonight it's just me - I'm thinking maybe the quorn pieces & sweet potato in one of the curry sauces (will be a lot of sauce left over though), with some rice. Will use onion, garlic and some broccoli in that too.

Then mon & tues, it's me & OH, so the salmon one night and the chicken the other, but what to do it with???

newster

You could cook the chiclen breasts, sprinkled with the shallots chopped up and some chopped garlic wrapped in tin foil. Think it's about 30-40 mins on a reg 5 (sorry only cook with gas ) You can do the same with the salmon, but using an onion instead of shallots. Have oven chips and some veg with one of the meals, and sweet potato and veg with the other.

lil_me

Running down the freezer as much as possible, have several bags of good quality cubed lamb, any ideas apart from stew (bored of stew) DP hates apricots as was thinking Moroccan lamb but only recipes I can find have apricots in.

Queenie

lil_me wrote: »

Running down the freezer as much as possible, have several bags of good quality cubed lamb, any ideas apart from stew (bored of stew) DP hates apricots as was thinking Moroccan lamb but only recipes I can find have apricots in.

Lamb skewer kebabs? Maybe served with couscous?

kangamama

lil_me wrote: »

Running down the freezer as much as possible, have several bags of good quality cubed lamb, any ideas apart from stew (bored of stew) DP hates apricots as was thinking Moroccan lamb but only recipes I can find have apricots in.

Curry? Or Chilli? I've made that with chunks rather than mince before. Or this recipe for Hunkar Begendi lamb that I keep meaning to try : http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/hunkarbegendilambwit_79506.shtml

lil_me

Thanks for those ideas, will have a look for some nice marinades for kebabs, never thought of making chilli with chunks, might just try that!