Meal inspiration please!

balijay

Its meal planning/food shopping day for the week ahead. I already have the food listed below - what would you make with this lot?

Cupboard
Passata
Chopped tomatoes
Panko breadcrumbs
Risotto rice
Lasagne sheets
Tin condensed mushroom soup
½ pack red lentils
Several jars chutney
Fridge
Large tomato
Fennel bulb
Spring onions
Tenderstem broccoli
Greek yoghurt
Cream cheese
Freezer
Pack of potato cakes
Green veg
Oven chips
Chicken stock

Your best ideas much appreciated!

lollyfin

I would use the tomato stuff, lasagna sheets,veg yoghurt and cream cheese to make a lasagna and the soup and stock to make a risotto.

Nicki

I'd buy some chicken breasts and garlic and slit the breasts in half, fill with cream cheese and garlic, coat in Panko breadcrumbs, bake and serve with broccoli and oven chips.

I'd use the lentils and tinned tomatoes to make a veg curry with whatever cheap veg you find in the shop and serve with rice and chutneys. You could also use the Greek yoghurt here to make a creamier curry.

The mushroom soup could be used with the risotto rice and some bits of veg left over from making the curry to make a nice veg risotto.

If you bought some mince and strong cheese, you could use the passata and lasagne sheets to make lasagne.

The potato cakes I'd just cook and serve with a poached egg on top.

As you'll already have bought strong cheese for the lasagne and eggs for the potato cakes, maybe the fennel bulb could be used with a small amount of salmon or smoked salmon in a quiche?

splishsplash

I would be shopping for something along these lines:

1. Risotto for one day, but cooking a double portion.

2. Arancini balls next day with an arrabiata sauce using the extra risotto, breadcrumbs, fennel and tomatoes.

3. Lasagne using the pasta dishes and passata.

4. Potato cakes, green veg with pan fried white fish. I would make a sauce by mixing a spoon of four into the pan fat then deglazing with a little boiling water before adding a spoonful of chutney; remove from the heat and add a spoon of cream cheese to thicken it up.

5. Oven chips with chicken or turkey or bacon in mushroom sauce - fry off the meat with garlic and onions, add a spoon of flour and deglaze with chicken stock then add the mushroom soup.

balijay

Some great ideas here thankyou - especially the arancini balls and the ideas to use up the blasted christmas chutney!

Spendless

I'd make soup using the fennel, broccoli and chicken stock

http://www.smallfamilycsa.com/community/recipes/225-cream-of-broccoli-and-fennel-soup

mashedavocado

You could make a lovely hearty red lentil soup using the chicken stock (and the tomatoes too, perhaps).

Buy an aubergine and you could make parmigiana with the passata and panko. Serve with veg and/or potato cakes (if you're really hungry!).

VfM4meplse

balijay wrote: »

Some great ideas here thankyou - especially the arancini balls and the ideas to use up the blasted christmas chutney!

I've been using mine up in sandwiches, with cheese, carrots and lots of iceberg lettuce in granary bread with v good results.

Admittedly I'm also using up the cheddar and chocolate brownie cheese leftover from Christmas, not my finest purchase but good in these sandwiches as long as the proportion of salad to cheese is high.

Arancini are too yummy!