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Lleucu

Egg biriani

4 eggs - boiled
2 medium sized potatoes - cut up and boiled for 7 minutes
2 onions chopped
curry powder or paste
4 portions of rice cooked
coriander
red pepper sliced
few sultanas - optional

1. Saute onions and some of peppers until soft, add curry paste, cook for 1 minute then add potatoes and cook for a further minute. Add water (not too much) to complete the curry, continue to cook very gently while you make the rice.
2. Put second onion in frying pan or wok, saute for 5 minutes, add the peppers and cook for 1 minute, add the curry paste and cook for 1 minute, it may be necessary to add a little extra oil, turn up heat and add the rice and fry for about 3 - 4 minutes, turning the rice frequently.
3. Peel and halve eggs, add to the vegetable curry.
4. Add coriander and sultanas if used to the rice.
5. Serve on hot plates it is nice with a mixed salad and plain yoghurt.
6. Lazy people can use ready cooked rice or rice in a bag but I find easy cook works well.

Cost about £2.50

Lleucu

Where has everybody gone? I will post this recipe as have just had a lovely meal.

8 slices white bread, stale is OK
Grated hard cheese, I used about 200 gm
4 eggs
60 ml milk
2 onions
Parsley, pepper, mustard

1. Chop onions finely, saute in microwave for 5 minutes on high
2. Preheat oven to 180 degrees C
3. Well grease a large dish
4. Spread butter / margarine on bread lightly
5. Whisk eggs and milk together, add cheese and mustard and paprika if liked
6. Cut bread into triangles and arrange artistically on the dish
7. Scatter onions over the bread then add the egg custard mixture
8. Sprinkle pepper.
9. Place in oven for 35 - 40 minutes until it is brown and bubbling
10. Serve with green salad

Cost if using value ingredients about £2.30, serves 4

mcculloch29

Thanks for that, I was thinking of savoury bread pud just the other day, haven't made it in years. Yesterday, I did a variation on sausage casserole - Jack Monroe has a couple of good recipes, but it's intuitive really. Sausages and onions chopped and browned, then chopped peppers, then tinned chopped tomatoes, tomato passata, drained tinned chickpeas, tom puree and seasonings added and let it bubble away for a bit. This one doesn't need any extra liquid because of the passata and tomato juice.

Sally_A

As a good mid to end of week meal, using up stuff this is brilliant, cheap and quick.


Boil spuds with any other leftover/limp root veg, eg carrots/swede/parsnips - bung in some greenery, maybe the half cabbage or a few sprouts. cook until soft but not soggy.


Heat oil in a deep baking tray in the oven, 160C should do, with a chopped onion or two.


When the above spuds and veg are soft, don't mash but slice/chop through with a knife - sort of half mashed.


Bung into the pre-heated baking tray up the temp to 180C (fan oven). Season with
black pepper if you like.


Arrange slices of bacon (smoked bacon works well) on top, and cook for 20 - 30m.


For the Piècede resistance - make a dent with a ladle in each quarter, and crack an egg into the hollow.


Grate the hard lumps of cheese at the back of the fridge you've saved, but don't really know what to do with, over the surface and cook for a further 5 mins or until eggs are set to your liking.


Vegetarians = avoid the bacon - still blummin' tasty!

wendywaugh

Vegetable Chilli (Serves 4)

Ingredients
1 x 400g tin ratatouille (45p Poundstretcher)
1 400g tin chopped tomatoes (29p Poundstretcher)
1 x 400g tin kidney beans in chilli sauce (29p Poundstretcher)
1 tsp chilli powder

Method
Place all ingredients in a saucepan and heat thoroughly.
That's all there is to it folks.

I am by no means a vegetarian but this little recipe is great if you need dinner in a hurry.
Just serve it with some rice or crusty bread.
You can of course add some additional vegetables if you choose (frozen peppers are good and also cheap).
Add a little more chilli powder for extra heat.
It really is super quick and very tasty.
Nobody would know you'd not slaved for hours to produce this!

I hope you enjoy it.

kboss2010

Macaroni cheese

300mL milk
Large handful grated cheese
1 tsp mustard powder/mustard
3 cups pasta

Butterfly_Brain

Egg and chips is a favourite when money is tight

JIL

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Egg and chips is a favourite when money is tight

You reminded me, my mum says always have a sack of potatoes and a dozen eggs in and you will always be able to make a meal.

debbym

Lleucu wrote: »

Very filling, based on recipe of Yotam Ottolengi, his uses roasted red peppers.

Loads of carrots yellow ticketed ones work well
2 onions
Garlic
Soy sauce
Tahini paste
Chili jam
Coriander or parsley

1. Slice and roast as many carrots as you can get into your oven
2. Heat oven to 200 C
3. Slice onions and garlic
4. Toss in sunflower oil
5. Roast for 40 minutes or until carrots are slightly charred
6. Blend with fresh coriander or parsley, soy sauce, chili jam and more fresh garlic. I have also added tahini paste.
7. Serve as a dip with bread and salad or as a hot dish works well with quiche or roast meals. Can also be used as a sandwich filler.

Got a glut of carrots (OH did shopping and thought 6 carrots meant 6 x 1 kg bags!) so going to try this. Might have to use peanut butter instead of tahini though - works for chickpea hummus

debbym

Favourite cheap meal in our house is "Love Pasta". (When DD was little she would insist she didn't like anything cooked with tomatoes so OH told her is was "made out of Love")
50 g pasta per person
whilst it is cooking brown 2 cloves of garlic in a frying pan and then add a carton of value passatta (costs about the same as a tin of tomatoes but is a lot thicker), allow to boil and reduce down whilst the pasta cooks. If you have it add basil and top with grated cheese.
Feeds all 5 of us for under 70p.