Are you a new student who is going to live by yourself soon? Dont know how to cook yet? Need to be strict on your budget? Think you can cook for yourself under a fiver? Haha!! Thats how I was, and now, I think I can cook quite decent food, not the fantastic five-star kind, but good enough to survive university.
Food 1: Basic chicken curry
I was so proud that I manage to cook this curry without burning anything and it tasted quite good, although it involved cheating. Well, we are students so there's no time to mix in the coraider and cumin and other herbs to make your own sauce, so the trick is buy the sauce!! But remember we're under budget!!Ingredients:
1 potato (60p for 4 baking potatoes at Sainbury- current promotion)
1 carrot (49p for a bag of carrots in Lidl- current promotion cut)
2 piece of chicken thighs if you are a big eater, 1 if you dont eat a lot (1.50pounds- Sainsbury promo)
Patak's Original Hot& Spicy Tikka Masala Sauce (1.38pounds in Sainsbury)
Total: 3.97 pounds!
Haha, it is under a fiver! Well, for brunei, 3.97pounds would be B$7.94 but dont forget, UK stuff are a bit more expensive so Brunei should sell these things cheaper~ =P
Ok! Lets learn how to cook basic curry!
1) Boil potatoes and carrots until it is soft enough, around 5-8mins is enough, if you like it crunchy then dont boil for so long.
2) Chop and diced your carrots and potatoes into small pieces or whatever size you like.
3) Remember to cut your chicken before hand! You may keep the bones if you like, who knows you want to make soup? Anyways, you can use the chicken skin and put it in your wok for a while to get the oil from the chicken fat, then stir fry your chicken till its brown (this make take around 5mins or longer)
4)Put in your vegetables and stir fry along with your chicken, 2 minutes would be enough.
5) Pour in your curry sauce, and let it simmer, but remember to stir it occasionally or it will be stuck to your wok!
6) Simmer your curry for about 15 minutes and you are done!!
Simple or what? Hahaha.. Imagine, its less than 5pounds, and you can use the sauce for another 2 times? You only use 1 carrot and 1 potato, so the other carrots in the bag and the remaining 3 potatoes can be used for other purposes.
As you can see, these items were under promotion. As students, it is our job to study hard and save your parents or scholarship money, or even your loan! So, these are the ways you can save on.
If you arent a student, but want to learn cooking? Here is the basic curry you can get in Asia, and mind you, its really nice! In terms of spices, it depends on your taste, if you really like spicy food, go for the Hot and spicy ones, if you're afraid of Spice, we can even get the mild ones now!
So thats all people, enjoy cooking! =D
-May out-
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