£7.00 per week - menu ideas

dasophster

No you don't need to soak mung beans before cooking, they don't take long either about 40 minutes to an hour, they don't contain the toxic compounds some other beans do. Mung beans are really more closely related to lentils. Whole lentils don't need soaking either they just may take a bit longer to cook. I once made a great cheats dhal with whole mung beans, all I did was get the cooked Mung beans (enough for 4 people) added 2 cloves of garlic and 1 tub of salsa that I got reduced for about 25p, a lot of Dhals the final garnishes are essentially the ingredients you get in salsa anyway. I warmed the beans through with the salsa and served it was really lovely and cost about 65p in total xx

ecoelle

dasophster wrote: »

No you don't need to soak mung beans before cooking, they don't take long either about 40 minutes to an hour, they don't contain the toxic compounds some other beans do. Mung beans are really more closely related to lentils. Whole lentils don't need soaking either they just may take a bit longer to cook. I once made a great cheats dhal with whole mung beans, all I did was get the cooked Mung beans (enough for 4 people) added 2 cloves of garlic and 1 tub of salsa that I got reduced for about 25p, a lot of Dhals the final garnishes are essentially the ingredients you get in salsa anyway. I warmed the beans through with the salsa and served it was really lovely and cost about 65p in total xx

I agree, i've never soaked them before cooking, i know some larger beans, if you don't soak them then they have hard centres no matter how long you cook them, but mung seems to be fine after a good boil:)

Popperwell

Wonderful recipes thank you...Tesco's have a bag of vegetables reduced back to £1 instead of £1.50 it contains swede, carrots, parsnip and onions...a swede on it's own is more expensive so not a bad buy...

quintwins

BB i was going to make your peach cake today but i was wondering if i could make it in a loose bottom cake tin? would it burn and stick? or would you recommend pyrex?

Butterfly_Brain

Pyrex dish quinny, or the juices from the peaches will leak everywhere x

quintwins

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Pyrex dish quinny, or the juices from the peaches will leak everywhere x

I thought so but i've never made a cake in a pyrex dish before so wasn't sure, turns out i didn't ahve enough sugar to make a cake anyway, just as well i could hardly move after my dinner anyway, i'm gonna grab some of those 3for2 value cake mixes today (aswell as some sugar) incase the baking mood strikes me again :rotfl:

furndire

I'm not sure if I have put on this thread before - Self Raising Flour & water make a very light batter - no need for batter mixes, or eggs.

Just a basic batter for fish, chicken, onion rings, mushrooms etc.

You do need the eggs & plain flour for Yorkshire puddings

quintwins

furndire wrote: »

I'm not sure if I have put on this thread before - Self Raising Flour & water make a very light batter - no need for batter mixes, or eggs.

I can't imagine a cake with no eggs or sugar that sounds more liek pancakes to me and even then i add an egg , i usually make a basic victoria sponge recipe. The cake mixes are 44p for 3 so really good value as a back up.

Or are you talking about just a basic batter? as teh reason the batter mixes were put on here was because the budget was £7, flour is 52p which eats into the budget, also i think it depends what your making as the batter mixes are for pancakes and yorkshire puddings hence the eggs, but if i'm making batter it's just flour and water (btw i made hm onion rings and battered mushrooms over the weekend they were soooo yum and again just basic flour water and s&p and i made yorkshire puddings with sunday dinner both cost pennies)

picket_fence

I'm a long time lurker at MSE but I thought I'd come out of hiding to say a massive thank you to you all - so inspirational and generous to boot. I'm off to put some of these great ideas into action. Cheers all :beer:

Butterfly_Brain

The Super Six at Aldi for the next two weeks are Mixed Peppers. Sweet Potatoes. Red Onions. Lemons. Plums. Conference Pears all at 69p