Home made Pot Noodles?

zippychick

Yeah leave them soaking in kettle hot water for 5 mins and they're cooked.

It's the flavourings and water ratio I need to work on. HFW recipe, al the curry powder sank to the bottom. it was disasterous

calisto

The whole point of the HFW pot noodles is that you can make a hot snack on a building site using just a kettle of water. I reckon I could write a whole book on how to cook using nothing but a kettle and toaster!! Boiled eggs, frankfurters, boil in bag rice, etc. Still far too fussy for a 30 min break, but I spent a sad time of my childhood being brought up in a single room on this stuff.

Much prefer to stick with the proper 3 minute noodles from thailand, korea, etc stuff like Tom Yum and Nasi Goreng. Chuck in some slices of chorizo or cooked meats / prawns to make a nice substantial hot and sour soup. Yum indeed! I have no problem with the 3 packet oils and seasonings included. It's all good.

You just have to pay something closer to 29p than 9p, still a heck of a lot cheaper than pot noodle!

Stephen_Leak

I also get the very cheap noodles, throw away the little sachet of toxic waste, and make my own sauce from sesame oil, light soy sauce, dark soy sauce, oyster sauce, Thai fish sauce, etc. Use 1 teaspoon each of any combination.

justin1972uk

I make my own too!

I use the ASDA Smart Price 9p noodles (discarding the sachet).

Split the noodles into four chunks in a saucepan, add a good shake of Whitworths dried onions, a handful of frozen peas and a teaspoon of madras curry paste (not powder). Add the recommended amount of boiling water, stir for three minutes and it's done!

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my b and m bargains has got pot oodles for just 19p so its a hard price too beat

calisto

justin1972uk wrote: »

I make my own too!

I use the ASDA Smart Price 9p noodles (discarding the sachet).

Split the noodles into four chunks in a saucepan, add a good shake of Whitworths dried onions, a handful of frozen peas and a teaspoon of madras curry paste (not powder). Add the recommended amount of boiling water, stir for three minutes and it's done!

Don't tell me - Pataks curry paste? - they are brilliant, much better than any sauces. I make a fantastic Saag Aloo with nothing more than Spinach, Spuds, Onions, oil, and Pataks Vindaloo paste.

I always watch out for them going on offer in the Asda or pick them up in home bargains,etc for £1 per jar. Each jar can do 8 curries.

If you like hot, you have to try out Pataks Chilli Pickle too! It's gorgeous even spread on toast! (You need a cast iron stomach and asbestos tongue though!). But is brilliant mixed with vinegar and ketchup to make a "kebab shop" hot shilli sauce, or mixed with mayo to water it down to only dangerously hot sauce. It's not the heat, it's the flavour.

MrsWoolfe

I love noodles, when I was a kid we used to make a trip tp Wing Yip every few months and buy boxes and boxes of noodles yum!

What I do is whenever I see some chicken/turkey on offer I chop it into little chunks marinade in soy,oyster sauce, mushroom soy,sesame oil and ginger & chilli then cook it all up in a wok- only a tiny tiny bit of oil needed you want it slighty dry I then portion this up in freezer bags and freeze.

Then when wanting a quick meal, boil up a pack of noodles- add a seasoning as desired, I like half a chicken stock cube more soy and plenty of chilli defrost cooked chicken in MW chuck a handful of frozen veg in with noodles (sweetcorn, peas etc) mix all together and Mmmmmm.

For a change though and for something easy I have been using a thai flavour cup a soup with rice noodles at work- I pop some chicken and veg in a tub add my noodles and boiling water and cover- it usually takes a couple of mins to cook through and is very tasty...damit I want noodles now!:D

justin1972uk

calisto wrote: »

Don't tell me - Pataks curry paste?

Yep! Nazir's is good too, but it's not as widely-available as Patak's.

Lizling

If you can still get miso soup sachets, they make a good alternative to the chicken/veg stock base and only need boiling water added. They're probably one of those things that are cheaper in the Asian supermarkets but I haven't bought them in ages.