Under £2.50 meals to feed a couple?
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For bargain meals you can't beat a bit of offal!
How about liver and onion with mash potato? I picked up 1lb of beef liver in Tesco for 75p last week.
Simply slice and gently fry a large onion in a large frying pan then slice the liver and add this to the pan with the onion. Be careful not to over cook the liver it only takes a couple of minutes to cook. Serve with mashed potato.
How about liver and onion with mash potato? I picked up 1lb of beef liver in Tesco for 75p last week.
Simply slice and gently fry a large onion in a large frying pan then slice the liver and add this to the pan with the onion. Be careful not to over cook the liver it only takes a couple of minutes to cook. Serve with mashed potato.
dcw@pr said:
had a lamb breast in the freezer, got some free stock bones (and pork back fat, but thats for something else) at the butchers today. This has just gone in the oven
Wow. Do show us the "after".Remember if it's overly oily pour off some of the excess. And that lamb needs to be crispy. Don't be afraid to put it back in the oven and blast it some more.
Good luck. Hope you get a good one, too!
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dized Tartiflette is a good, cheap dish. You need a load of potatoes, an onion (or two depending on how many potatoes, one of those kilo packs of bacon misshape/offcuts (cost a quid in sainsburys - look like the result of the slicing machine going wrong), a tub of creme fraiche and a soft cheese of some kind - I go for sainsburys 'basics' Camembert for a pound. All in it's about a fiver but at least two meals for two people.
Chop all the potatoes into thickish slices and boil them until soft. Fry the onion and bacon, chopped into chunks, in a pan. Mix it all together with the creme fraiche in a big oven proof dish. Chop the cheese in half lengthwise and put it on top. Chuck it in the oven until all the cheese has melted and the top has gone crispy.
dized Tartiflette is a good, cheap dish. You need a load of potatoes, an onion (or two depending on how many potatoes, one of those kilo packs of bacon misshape/offcuts (cost a quid in sainsburys - look like the result of the slicing machine going wrong), a tub of creme fraiche and a soft cheese of some kind - I go for sainsburys 'basics' Camembert for a pound. All in it's about a fiver but at least two meals for two people. Chop all the potatoes into thickish slices and boil them until soft. Fry the onion and bacon, chopped into chunks, in a pan. Mix it all together with the creme fraiche in a big oven proof dish. Chop the cheese in half lengthwise and put it on top. Chuck it in the oven until all the cheese has melted and the top has gone crispy.
Very good.
My changes: didn't have any stuffing, but put in roughly chopped onion. Next time I will put in halved onions instead, they were actually better than the potatoes (I will do 50:50 potato
nion). Also, I cooked mine for about 2.5hrs at 160-180, which was a bit too much. Next time it will have about 90 minutes, then a blast at the end of necessary.Holy Thread from the Dead......
A recipe i posted a few years ago and still a family favorite
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=70...
Its a tasty one pot dish which is cheap and very easy.
Tesco sell a pack of 3 chicken drum sticks and 3 chicken thighs for £2.00 special offer.
Place them in them in a pan skin side up. Smash up 5 garlic cloves (no need to peel) and place in and around chicken. Spinkle with Tyme. Drizzle with olive oil and honey and season. Place in the oven at 150c for approx 2 hrs for the last 20mins turn the oven up to 190c to crispen skin.
The skin is crisp and the meat falls of the bone.
Serve with salad and some boiled baby new potatos.
Total cost for a family of 4 £4.00
Enjoy
A recipe i posted a few years ago and still a family favorite
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=70...
Its a tasty one pot dish which is cheap and very easy.
Tesco sell a pack of 3 chicken drum sticks and 3 chicken thighs for £2.00 special offer.
Place them in them in a pan skin side up. Smash up 5 garlic cloves (no need to peel) and place in and around chicken. Spinkle with Tyme. Drizzle with olive oil and honey and season. Place in the oven at 150c for approx 2 hrs for the last 20mins turn the oven up to 190c to crispen skin.
The skin is crisp and the meat falls of the bone.
Serve with salad and some boiled baby new potatos.
Total cost for a family of 4 £4.00
Enjoy
Melman Giraffe said:
Holy Thread from the Dead......
A recipe i posted a few years ago and still a family favorite
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=70...
Its a tasty one pot dish which is cheap and very easy.
Tesco sell a pack of 3 chicken drum sticks and 3 chicken thighs for £2.00 special offer.
Place them in them in a pan skin side up. Smash up 5 garlic cloves (no need to peel) and place in and around chicken. Spinkle with Tyme. Drizzle with olive oil and honey and season. Place in the oven at 150c for approx 2 hrs for the last 20mins turn the oven up to 190c to crispen skin.
The skin is crisp and the meat falls of the bone.
Serve with salad and some boiled baby new potatos.
Total cost for a family of 4 £4.00
Enjoy
Sounds tasty but cant't see 3 chicken legs and 3 thighs feeding a whole family - I'd scoff the lot!A recipe i posted a few years ago and still a family favorite
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=70...
Its a tasty one pot dish which is cheap and very easy.
Tesco sell a pack of 3 chicken drum sticks and 3 chicken thighs for £2.00 special offer.
Place them in them in a pan skin side up. Smash up 5 garlic cloves (no need to peel) and place in and around chicken. Spinkle with Tyme. Drizzle with olive oil and honey and season. Place in the oven at 150c for approx 2 hrs for the last 20mins turn the oven up to 190c to crispen skin.
The skin is crisp and the meat falls of the bone.
Serve with salad and some boiled baby new potatos.
Total cost for a family of 4 £4.00
Enjoy
boyse7en said:
Melman Giraffe said:
Holy Thread from the Dead......
A recipe i posted a few years ago and still a family favorite
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=70...
Its a tasty one pot dish which is cheap and very easy.
Tesco sell a pack of 3 chicken drum sticks and 3 chicken thighs for £2.00 special offer.
Place them in them in a pan skin side up. Smash up 5 garlic cloves (no need to peel) and place in and around chicken. Spinkle with Tyme. Drizzle with olive oil and honey and season. Place in the oven at 150c for approx 2 hrs for the last 20mins turn the oven up to 190c to crispen skin.
The skin is crisp and the meat falls of the bone.
Serve with salad and some boiled baby new potatos.
Total cost for a family of 4 £4.00
Enjoy
Sounds tasty but cant't see 3 chicken legs and 3 thighs feeding a whole family - I'd scoff the lot!A recipe i posted a few years ago and still a family favorite
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?t=70...
Its a tasty one pot dish which is cheap and very easy.
Tesco sell a pack of 3 chicken drum sticks and 3 chicken thighs for £2.00 special offer.
Place them in them in a pan skin side up. Smash up 5 garlic cloves (no need to peel) and place in and around chicken. Spinkle with Tyme. Drizzle with olive oil and honey and season. Place in the oven at 150c for approx 2 hrs for the last 20mins turn the oven up to 190c to crispen skin.
The skin is crisp and the meat falls of the bone.
Serve with salad and some boiled baby new potatos.
Total cost for a family of 4 £4.00
Enjoy
Once you have a comprehensive collection of spices (the expensive bit), Indian vegetarian food is absolutely the way to go.
The below recipe costs less than £2 to make and will do four portions easily:
Kitchen sink dal
This is my own recipe, evolved over a number of years from many others.
Ingredients
500g yellow split peas, soaked overnight in cold water
Handful dried curry leaves
2 dried red Kashmiri chillies, cut into small pieces
1 cube frozen ginger/garlic mix (from Asda), or a teaspoon each of crushed fresh ginger and garlic
1 teaspoon turmeric
1 teaspoon salt
2 large onions, finely chopped
4 tablespoons cold-pressed rapeseed oil*
1 teaspoon mustard seeds
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
Large pinch asafoetida (hing)
Method
Simmer the split peas until soft together with the turmeric, chillies, curry leaves, garlic, ginger and salt. I add water to the level where it just covers the soaked peas, but you can add more or less depending how runny you like it. Keep an eye on the pot so it doesn’t boil dry, and blend the split peas with a hand blender once they’re soft. Depending on how fresh the split peas are, they will take anything from 20 minutes to an hour to cook.
Heat the oil in a heavy pan and sizzle the mustard seeds, cumin seeds and asafoetida until the mustard seeds start popping. It should be frothing and smelling nice and nutty. Add the onions and gently fry on a low heat until they’re translucent and brownish in colour, stirring frequently. These need to be far darker than you would use in a western dish, and will take at least 20 minutes to cook.
Pour the onion mixture over the pea mixture and stir well. Serve with flatbreads or rice, with some chopped coriander over. Add chopped green chillies if you prefer it hotter (I do).
* You could use butter or ghee, but I find that cold-pressed rapeseed oil has a ‘mustardiness’ which goes really well in this dish.
The below recipe costs less than £2 to make and will do four portions easily:
Kitchen sink dal
This is my own recipe, evolved over a number of years from many others.
Ingredients
500g yellow split peas, soaked overnight in cold water
Handful dried curry leaves
2 dried red Kashmiri chillies, cut into small pieces
1 cube frozen ginger/garlic mix (from Asda), or a teaspoon each of crushed fresh ginger and garlic
1 teaspoon turmeric
1 teaspoon salt
2 large onions, finely chopped
4 tablespoons cold-pressed rapeseed oil*
1 teaspoon mustard seeds
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
Large pinch asafoetida (hing)
Method
Simmer the split peas until soft together with the turmeric, chillies, curry leaves, garlic, ginger and salt. I add water to the level where it just covers the soaked peas, but you can add more or less depending how runny you like it. Keep an eye on the pot so it doesn’t boil dry, and blend the split peas with a hand blender once they’re soft. Depending on how fresh the split peas are, they will take anything from 20 minutes to an hour to cook.
Heat the oil in a heavy pan and sizzle the mustard seeds, cumin seeds and asafoetida until the mustard seeds start popping. It should be frothing and smelling nice and nutty. Add the onions and gently fry on a low heat until they’re translucent and brownish in colour, stirring frequently. These need to be far darker than you would use in a western dish, and will take at least 20 minutes to cook.
Pour the onion mixture over the pea mixture and stir well. Serve with flatbreads or rice, with some chopped coriander over. Add chopped green chillies if you prefer it hotter (I do).
* You could use butter or ghee, but I find that cold-pressed rapeseed oil has a ‘mustardiness’ which goes really well in this dish.
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