Fry onions in coconut oil, add lentils and water, season with garam masala and/or other herbs and spices, optionally add dried fruit and nuts, eat with rice. The best thing about this is that all ingredients keep well in the cupboard so you can stock up a little when you can afford to.
I can cook rice OK, but it’s never really enjoyable to eat. Always too bland. Never tried cooking with dried beans and lentils so I’ll have to explore that. Cheers.
Look up recipes for seasoned rice, obviously it ups the cost a bit.
Fry the dry rice in some type of oil until golden brown (stir regularly to prevent burning) then add some chicken stock or a bouillon cub to the water along with herbs and spices you like while the rice boils. I usually go with onion/garlic powder and some dried rosemary but fresh works good too.
Lazy mexirice: get a cup of rice or whatever amount you like, pour it over a hot pot already coated in hot olive oil. Shake it or stir the rice continuously in high heat. Keep looking at the oil wet rice. It will go from being fully clear to an opaque white. You can stop at white or continue until they get a more toasted brown orange color. At that point pour a good amount of ketchup from a squeeze bottle. Immediately following that with a cup of hot water. Now lower the heat fill the pot with enough hot water to cover the rice,. Finally cover the pot and wait 20 minutes. Add water if it dries too much.
You could toast a tomato and then add onions and such, buy ketchup is the lazy way. I do add some garlic powder.
Pick out any bad looking beans, then place them in water to soak over night. Next day, drain the water, put beans in a pot with 1tbsp oil, salt, bay leaf, half an onion, and enough water to cover. Cook for about an hour or until beans are soft. This can be divided into 4-5 quart bags and frozen to store. Do not throw out the water, store it with the beans.
Add about a cup of veggie oil, 1 tsp garlic, 2 tsp red pepper flakes to a pan. Cook over medium hear until aromatic. Add about 4 cups of beans and juice or 1 bag thawed. Stir carefully until it thickens, then mash with a slotted spoon/spatula/potato masher.
The first half makes beans that goes great with basically anything, the second is true, authentic refried beans. As a honky boy who only ever had then from a can, the refried beans were life changing and I married the woman that taught me how to make them.
1 cup dry beans, 1.5 cups water in instant pot. Press the “beans” button and go back online til pot beeps at you (about 45 minutes). Can’t get much simpler.
budgetbytes.com great cheap recipes their older stuff was a bit more budget conscious. But you can sort by ingredient and find good bean and lentil recipes.
Seems like I need to educate myself on lentils and dry beans. Any EASY recipes welcome!
Fry onions in coconut oil, add lentils and water, season with garam masala and/or other herbs and spices, optionally add dried fruit and nuts, eat with rice. The best thing about this is that all ingredients keep well in the cupboard so you can stock up a little when you can afford to.
I cook beans and rice regardless of how its going. Nothing can beat that. And you can add anything you want, which makes beans really flexible.
I can cook rice OK, but it’s never really enjoyable to eat. Always too bland. Never tried cooking with dried beans and lentils so I’ll have to explore that. Cheers.
Look up recipes for seasoned rice, obviously it ups the cost a bit.
Fry the dry rice in some type of oil until golden brown (stir regularly to prevent burning) then add some chicken stock or a bouillon cub to the water along with herbs and spices you like while the rice boils. I usually go with onion/garlic powder and some dried rosemary but fresh works good too.
Lazy mexirice: get a cup of rice or whatever amount you like, pour it over a hot pot already coated in hot olive oil. Shake it or stir the rice continuously in high heat. Keep looking at the oil wet rice. It will go from being fully clear to an opaque white. You can stop at white or continue until they get a more toasted brown orange color. At that point pour a good amount of ketchup from a squeeze bottle. Immediately following that with a cup of hot water. Now lower the heat fill the pot with enough hot water to cover the rice,. Finally cover the pot and wait 20 minutes. Add water if it dries too much.
You could toast a tomato and then add onions and such, buy ketchup is the lazy way. I do add some garlic powder.
1bag dried black beans
1half onion
Vegetable oil
Bay leaf
Red pepper flakes
Garlic
Salt
Water
Pick out any bad looking beans, then place them in water to soak over night. Next day, drain the water, put beans in a pot with 1tbsp oil, salt, bay leaf, half an onion, and enough water to cover. Cook for about an hour or until beans are soft. This can be divided into 4-5 quart bags and frozen to store. Do not throw out the water, store it with the beans.
Add about a cup of veggie oil, 1 tsp garlic, 2 tsp red pepper flakes to a pan. Cook over medium hear until aromatic. Add about 4 cups of beans and juice or 1 bag thawed. Stir carefully until it thickens, then mash with a slotted spoon/spatula/potato masher.
The first half makes beans that goes great with basically anything, the second is true, authentic refried beans. As a honky boy who only ever had then from a can, the refried beans were life changing and I married the woman that taught me how to make them.
1 cup dry beans, 1.5 cups water in instant pot. Press the “beans” button and go back online til pot beeps at you (about 45 minutes). Can’t get much simpler.
budgetbytes.com great cheap recipes their older stuff was a bit more budget conscious. But you can sort by ingredient and find good bean and lentil recipes.