… Chilli Nachos, Veggie & Feta Sprinkles
I had Monday night off cooking a 15 Minute Meal. There were left overs to eat up and backgammon to practice. I have joined a pub backgammon team, or been commandeered might be more accurate.
For some reason I didn’t think this one would go well. Nothing to do with the recipe I was just physically feeling a bit slow and I noticed my knife skills were a bit off. After a bit of a slow start it all went pretty well. Just one little issue. You make a kind of yogurt and mint dip. You are meant to use your stick blender to whiz the mint, pickled jalapeño and yogurt. I didn’t get on well with this, it wasn’t whizzing up very fast at all. I think that’s because your using small quantities and the stick blender works better with larger quantities. It worked brilliantly with the soup. In the end I chucked this yogurt mix in my food processor.
It was all done in fifteen minutes and twelve seconds. This was another fun hands on meal to eat. Lovely colours. Beautiful flavours. Easily enough food for four people. You put a bit of rice in the soup and I was worried it wouldn’t cook in time, but it did.
Between the pantry ingredients and some bits I had left over from other meals, of the seventeen ingredients I only had to buy seven. I am finding that I’m using quite a few similar ingredients over again. I suspect if you were organised you could really cut costs buy buying larger qualities and sharing between meals. I doubt I’ll be that organised. I did however shop for three meals again tonight. This seems to work well. It’s either Winter Squash Penne with Mint & Avocado Chopped Salad or Beef Stroganoff with Fluffy Rice, Red Onion & Parsley Pickle tomorrow. Not sure which yet.
How much: £4.93.
How long: Fifteen minutes and twelve seconds.
Who with: Gavin
I replenished and stocked up on a few pantry ingredients today and spent £4.16. I saw a few things that were a good deal.
