Yesterdays Meals................
Pete’s Green Thai Chicken Curry-2
Serves 4
2.45 syns per person
Ingredients
400g chicken breast, cut into 1 inch pieces
400ml tin of Blue Dragon Coconut Milk Light (3.5 syns per 100ml) use 200ml=7 syn
1tsp of salt
1tsp sweetener
1tbsp fish sauce 0.4syn per tbsp.
2tbsp green Thai curry paste 1syn per tbsp.
2 tsp “Very Easy” lemongrass paste
Zest of 1 lime
Juice of 1 lime
1medium onion, finely sliced
50g of fresh coriander, finely chopped
200g Jasmine rice or Sainsbury’s Thai Fragrant Rice
Method
In a small blender, blend the onion & lemongrass paste & put to one side.
Heat a wok over a high heat and spay with Fry Light, add the green curry paste and the coconut milk, cook for 1 minute. Add the chicken and cook for 2-3 minutes, ensuring the chicken gets well coated in the curry paste.
Add the onion, fish sauce, lime zest, lime juice, salt and sweetener and cook for a further 2 minutes. Reduce the heat and simmer for 10 minutes. Add half of the chopped fresh coriander & mix into the sauce, continue simmering for a further 5 mins, decorate the dish with the remaining coriander.
Serve with the cooked rice.
Christmas Soup........
Pete’s Christmas Soup
Serves 4
Ingredients
Morrison’s British turkey thigh, diced. 325g
4 smoked bacon rashers, all fat removed
2 Sainsbury “be good to yourself” extra lean Cumberland sausage (0.5 syn each)
2ltr of Knorr chicken stock pot
Cupful of frozen peas
2 potatoes, peeled
2 medium onions
2 cloves of garlic
2 carrots
1 parsnip
Dried sage
Small box of stuffing mix (optional) Sainsbury’s “Basic Stuffing” made as directed and shaped into 24 little little balls, oven cooked for about 20 mins. (0.45syns each)
Dash of Worcester sauce
Method
Put the turkey meat in a saucepan, cover in chicken stock, keep the rest of the stock, and cook until the meat falls apart, remove and allow to cool, then shred the meat, set to one side.
Cut the sausage open and remove the meat, roll into small sausages and wrap with a small piece of the bacon (makes 8 pigs in blankets 0.5 syn per person) cook in the oven with the stuffing balls, for about 20 mins until cooked & browned.
Lightly fry the rough chopped onions, celery & cloves in a large soup pan. Add the stock, dried sage and peeled roughly chopped potatoes. Peel and chop the carrots & parsnip into small pieces, Leave to simmer for 25 mins until the vegetables are soft then blitz with the hand blender to make a rustic soup base. Season with salt and pepper.
Add the turkey and peas to the soup base & simmer for 20 minutes. Plate up & place the stuffing balls & pigs in blankets on the top of the soup.