Posts Tagged ‘quick’

Chilli-Con-Carne in a rush

A great quick Chilli recipe – if you have time, use the Chilli Deluxe recipe!

The Ingredients:

  • 1 tin of kidney beans, drained
  • 1 tin of chopped tomatoes and if you can throw in some whole tomatoes that have ben roughly chopped it will improve the texture.
  • 500g lean minced beef
  • Vegetable oil
  • 1 large onion, chopped
  • ½-1 tsp hot chilli powder or cayenne pepper
  • 1 rounded tbsp paprika
  • 1 tbsp cumin seeds
  • 1 tbsp dark muscovado sugar
  • 2 garlic cloves, crushed
  • 300ml/1 pint beef or chicken stock
  • salt and freshly ground black pepper
  • soured cream or crème fraîche, to serve
  • roughly chopped fresh coriander, to garnish

The Method:

This doesn’t really need instructions – just chuck in the onion & garlic, brown the mince and bung everything else in, and spice to taste. Job done :)

stir fried chicken and sweetcorn noodles

The Ingredients:

  • 100g medium egg noodles
  • 1 tbspn veg. oil
  • 1 finely chopped garlic clove
  • 100g chicken thigh meat
  • mangetout, thinly sliced.
  • 1 tbspn Soy Sauce
  • 2 tbspn fish sauce
  • 165g tinned sweetcorn
  • salt/white pepper
  • 2 teaspoons sesame seeds, toasted
  • 1 teaspoon toasted sesame oil
  • coriander leaves
  • Cook noodles & drain

The Method:

  1. stir fry garlic, quick, then add chicken.
  2. add mangetout & sauces, simmer briefly, then add noodles & sweetcorn. season.
  3. remove from heat. ad sesame seeds & oil. serve. dress with coriander.

Carbonara

The Ingredients:

  • 1/2lb(225g) Tagliatelle (Pref fresh)
  • 4oz (110g) Streaky bacon, de rinded
  • 2 Large Eggs
  • 1 onion
  • Parmesan Cheese (for the sauce and for grating on the top when serving)
  • small pot of double cream

Method:

Er, I’m sure you can work it out!