One pot meals.

[TiG]

I just thought i'd share a few things that i've been cooking recently. Main reason for one pot meals is i've been so busy with my new girlfriend, moving stuff helping her get sorted for a new job, that i've had little time to breath let alone cook.

I'm not one for microwave meals and always like to use fresh ingredients.

So last night i cooked Spicy Tomato Szechuan Turkey and Noodles...

I really like turkey as a meat as its texture works well when combined with sauces and softer items like noodles.

So after pan frying the turkey i put on the Sharwood's Spicy Tomato Szechuan (which i have to recommend completely - usually i add to the sauces to make them to the quality i like but this one is sublime)

and then chucked on the Amoy fine thread noodles that i've found to be one of my favourite cooking ingredients recently. They simply taste great require nothing more than warming through and are pretty cheap.

Meal cooked in under 7 minutes, less washing up and something that was delicious....

TiG

[Moby-Dick]

I've got an entire book on one pot cooking
feel free to borrowi t when you are next in an MK-wards direction !

[ekundo]

Originally Posted by TiG

I really like turkey as a meat as its texture works well when combined with sauces and softer items like noodles.

added bonus is its about half the price of chicken (can you tell i'm a student?)

i'v got a one pot cookbook, its called "the cookbook for a man who probably only owns one saucepan" its pretty good for basic stuff and has some interesting things like gaspacho soup in there


the recepie looks pretty good, its getting done next week for sure here, cheers

[Moby-Dick]

"the cookbook for a man who probably only owns one saucepan" <-- bought that for my dad a few years ago.

try the meatball recepie from it. its v good !!

[menthel]

One pot cooking is great. It allows you to keep so many of the flavours in, especailly with stews. Brown the meat in the pan and then whip it out. Then get all the veg going and when you stick the fluid in, Woosh!, all of the sticky juicy bits go from the bottom of the pan into the sauce. Marvellous. Le creuset, expensive but fantastic for that kind of thing.

[TiG]

Originally Posted by ekundo

added bonus is its about half the price of chicken (can you tell i'm a student?)

i'v got a one pot cookbook, its called "the cookbook for a man who probably only owns one saucepan" its pretty good for basic stuff and has some interesting things like gaspacho soup in there


the recepie looks pretty good, its getting done next week for sure here, cheers

Well i'm an ex-student which is where i picked up the turkey thing but i agree about the price. Plus i still think turkey rocks as a meat

Sounds like one pot cooking has got some cooking mileage on it for me.
Anyone got any noodle/soup type reciepes?, for taking to work at lunch time?.

TiG

[Moby-Dick]

Chinese Hypermarket in MK
noddle problem sorted

[TiG]

Ah you speak to the person that went to the chinese supermarket in reading yesterday

TiG

[Rhyth]

One of my favorite one pot meals I have prepared recently is a Risotto. It does involve a little time if you make the stock from scratch and frying off the flour with some finely chopped onions but I find a bottle of wine helps pass the time and gives a little insperation too. I'll post up my quick guide later if you'd like to give it a whirl, I recommend it.

I also have a great bechamel sauce suggestion too which I recently discovered

[Funkstar]

Not one pot, but one caserole dish.

My favourite right now is roasted veg. Until a few months ago i wasn't the greatest lover of veg and stuff, but i was converted after a trip down to glasgow to see some family.

I usually change exactly what is in it, but the basics are: Sweet potato, parsnips, babd sweet corn, asparagus, halumi chease, chestnut mushrooms, butter beans and some olives.

cube and pre-cook the potato and parsnips first (blast in micro for 10min). drain water, add everything else chopped up (along with just about anything else, it's all good) sprinkle in some dried garlic (i never use all of a fresh one before it starts to go past its best) mixed italian herbs (tyme is good also) and a good slug of olive oil. Roast it for a wiel then mix it up and roast it some more until you think it is done.

yum!

[pfb]

Just to agree with TiG. I find myself cooking my one pots according to the simple formula:

Meat + Veg + Noodles/Rice/Pasta + Sauce = delicious.

I know find that there are whole supermarket aisles made up of sauces to vary how this actually comes out.

P.

[Ceefer]

I'm no great fan of Delia Smith but her Basque-style Chicken, which is a one-pot sort of paella type dish, is absolutely brilliant. I've cooked it dozens and dozens of times and it never fails to impress. Find it at her website www.deliasmith.co.uk

Rhyth - flour in risotto !!!!! - surely not.