Fave healthy/cheap recipe

[Shannyn]

Please share one of you yummy cheap and moderately healthy recipes. Or just ideas and thoughts on the subject.

[juna]

Hi Shannyn,

Check out this thread on the Glitter boards:

http://www.supernaturale.com/glitter/viewtopic.p
hp?t=2428

[Karen]

The Glitter thread will be deleted 1 week after the last post, so you're better off posting here!

[JediEmpressMel]

Ya.. copy anything you see in that thread over to here if you want to keep it around longer, me thinks.

[malinka]

Dahl and rice. Simple to prepare with stuff lying around, really healthy, really yummy, and open to endless variations depending on what you've got lying around. Almost every ingredient in the Dahl is optional, except for the lentils. And water.

Dahl--
Fry one onion, some garlic, ginger. After they are soft, add some tumeric, garam masala, mustard seeds, chilli. After 30 secs or so add lentils. 1 cup? I like red lentils of channa dahl (split chick peas) best but you can use any. And plenty of water. Cook til the lentils are tender. You can have it as thick or as runny as you like--I like it thick. Add salt, more garam masala and a good bit of lemon juice. Eat.
Variations: you can add tomato, cubed potato, carrot, sweet potato, spinach, cocnut milk. Whatever. To be real class serve with lemon rice, pappadams or roti, and top with fresh coriander/cilantro.

Lemon rice:
Fry some mustard seeds, curry leaves, and chopped peanuts in two tabs of oil. (I put in a teaspoon or two or urad dahl too, but that's getting kinda fancy). Add a bit of tumeric, 1 cup basmati rice, and 1 teas salt. Fry for two mins. Add two cups water and some lemon juice, bring to the boil. Boil for two mins. Cover tightly, reduce heat to waaayyy low and cook for ten mins. Turn off the stove and leave for it 7 mins. Eat! This rice looks so fancy, but it's simple to make and the rice is always perfect.

Kudos where it is due: the rice is based on a recipe in Low-fat Vegetarian Cookbook by Mridula Baljekar. I'm wary of low-fat books, but this just has really yummy, easy healthy veg food, though unfortunately it has a shocking index too. But apart from that I recommend it heartily. The dahl I've been making for so long I can't remember where I first got a recipe from.

Hope this is the kind of things you're looking for!

[athena]

http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/
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and easy, too!
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[peanut]

[athena]

hee hee! i made this last night again. forgot and used the lemon for hummus and threw it away before i could grate the rind. i always make a half recipe, except this time i used the two cans of tuna. i'm insulin-resistent and need to watch my protein/carb ratio (not in an atkins way, though). i also threw in some more capers.

had some for lunch today, too.
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every time i follow the crowd, i find that my standard of living goes down. —e.b. white

[mfred]

I saw this recipe in a book

Make a pot of spaghetti (or farfale, fusilli, any of those little curly ones, if you prefer).

Chop up some garlic, I do at least 2 cloves per person.
Chop up some fresh oregano. You can use dried oregano, but its just not as tasty at all.

In a deep-ish saute pan, slowly slowly slowly heat up olive oil, garlic, and oregano.

You don't actually want to cook the gariic, you are just infusing the oil with the flavor- if you want to add chicken sausage or shrimp, cook those first, then add the garlic and oil, over low heat.

Drain the pasta, but leave it a little bit wet. The extra droplets of water help the oil mix in better. Toss and eat! Sometimes I will also throw in steamed broccoli.

Olive oil is a monounsaturated fat, which is actually very good for you, and if you add broccoli and chicken breast, you get veges and protein too!

De-lish!