/ck/ - Food & Cooking

You could get a spoonful of generic Italian spices in there, too.

I post this one all the time.
>1/4 lbs elbow mac
>2-3 chopped hotdogs
>12oz can of tomato juice
Tried and true delicious if you eat it while it's warm and don't let it get cold, but that's all pasta dishes. Can also add mozzarella cheese or add in other shit to make a sort of goulash.

>>11446940
Potato Soup

2ish pounds of potatoes
1 quart stock
1 onion
1 carrot
1 stick celery
salt and pepper to taste

Chop and sweat the onion carrot and celery, then pour stock over it and bring it to a boil. Peel and cut up the potatoes and put in the water. Cook until they're tender then blend the whole thing up. If you like you can reserve some potato chunks before blending, or blend half and add it back to the rest.

Makes like 4 to 6 servings, you can garnish with stuff like green onions, parsley, bacon and cheese if you like (depending on budget), but it's honestly not bad even done plain. Similarly for super poverty mode you can replace the stock with water. A little touch of dairy can add some richness too.

Velveeta Surprise
>mac and cheese (not the dry cheese kind)
>can of tuna in water
>peas

Make the mac n Cheese and add tuna and peas. Enjoy the tastiest balanced meal you've ever had while spending less than $5 and having leftovers

>>11446940
Copied from >>11446918

Rice and beans (about 1250 calories).

1/4 habanero pepper
1/2 large onion
135 g long grain rice
200 mL water
1 can low sodium black beans
2 tsp oil
8 oz frozen mixed vegetables
spices (e.g. cumin, paprika, ground oregano, black pepper)

Chop onions and saute in oil, adding habanero at some point.

Meanwhile, mix all other ingredients in a metal bowl. I put the bowl on the scales and add each ingredient while resetting the scale.

When the onions are soft, add all other ingredients to put and raise heat to high, and cover. Bring to boil, stirring occasionally, then set to lowest heat and cook with lid on for 15 minutes, then let rest for 5-10 minutes without removing the lid.

Cost breakdown (from an expensive store)
>Rice: 60c (135g at $10 for 5lbs)
>Beans: $1.50 per can
>Mixed vegetables: $1.50 ($3 for a 16 oz bag)
>Habenero: 2c (18c for 2)
>Onions etc.: ?

So this comes to $3.60

Eggs and rice + soy sauce.

Cook the eggs and eat it with the rice.

Or, drop a room-temp raw egg over pipin hot rice, mix it with some soy sauce and pepper. You can sprinkle some finely chopped green onions/chives in there too if you'd like.

there's nothing budget about sauces that use parmesean cheese as their base...

>>11447162
Cheat it with the shitty shaky cheese.

>>11447151
Don't do this unless you know where the egg came from and you're sure it's good.
Japs do this because they have VERY strict regulations on chicken farming.

>>11447180
>Don't do this unless you know where the egg came from and you're sure it's good.
Done it all my life here in murrika. Never had any issues, ever.

>>11447164
Even just using a domestic copycat will cut the price by a lot.

>>11447162
You don't need very much. Admittedly, the parm is the most expensive ingredient, but if you use cheap pregrated parm, it'll only run you about 65 cents a serving

Cheap lunch for cutting

>1/2 lb ground beef
Fry without oil
>3/4 lb (half pack) frozen mixed vegs
Add to beef, allow to get warm
>1 big potato
Cut into 1/2 in sized pieces, boil until for 5 mins, add
>1/2 bag of instant chili con carne spice mixture
Add

>>11446940
So no need to cook the egg? won't I be getting salmonella or some shit?

>>11447953
The hot pasta will do the cooking. Just make sure it's not TOO hot or it'll scramble, which you don't want.

>>11446940
why the fuck are we getting raided with "GUYS NID CHEAP FOOD PLZ" threads?
Is Buzzfeed farming us for recipes for an article or something?
Fuck off to /wsr/ or kindly fucking kys fucking newfag

Plov

2lbs of rice
1lbs of carrots
1lbs of onions
1 garlic bulb (you can add more)
1 1/2lbs of pork shoulder
Salt, pepper, paprika, cumin and coriander powder.
Sunflower oil
Water


Cut onions in half and slice them. Cut carrots into big matchsticks and meat into big chunks.
Preheat kinda lot of oil in big enough pot and dump in the meat and brown it. Remove and add the onions, when they are starting to get golden, add the meat back, season with all the spices/seasonings and fry like a minute then pour in some water so everything is submerged, add the whole garlic bulb in there. Cover and cook for 20 minutes on medium high heat. After that, remove the garlic buld and add carrots and mix everything so it is evenly distributed and then pour over all the rice in even layer (do not stir, it should stay in one layer covering all the veggies and meat). Gently add enough water, season with some salt, cover and let it cook until rice is done, then mix everything together and serve. It should be rather dry without any liquid left.

This makes a lot of portions for kinda good price.

>>11448010
god i love this shit - 600g of meat and 2.5 cups of rice can feed you for a week
making this regularly, when I can get the pork
it's also good with chicken, but you need to balance spices around it
I also roughly chop the garlic and leave it there, but I love garlic
should mention that the better rice for it is the long grain kind

>>11446940
I've been trying carbonara more and more recently OP but I have no idea how pasta water works
Some guy told me it's meant to thicken the sauce a bit but every time I try it it's always runny and tasteless

>>11447998
Would you rather have a thread where people share actual recipes or "for me it's the McChicken" and "do Americans actually do this?" for the ten billionth time?

>>11447998
>/ck/
>recipes
Lurk moar, newfag.

>>11448010
>plov
>pork shoulder
Lmao, just no. What's next, your horse meat lasagne?

>>11448045
Don't add pasta water unless your bacon and oil isn't enough to fully coat the pasta. Just drain it completely, saving a little just in case.

>>11448056
Hello Ahmed.

>>11448059
That seems like a lot of olive oil anon

>>11447953
The residual heat from the pasta, oil, and pan will cook the egg.

>>11448274
Don't worry anon, a tablespoon of oil really isn't that much. You're relying on the bacon to render out the additional fat necessary to coat the pasta properly and create the emulsion you're after.

>>11447985
>>11448314
Thanks pals, this puts me at ease. I love trying new things but my stomach behaves like a little bitch and I tend to get sick whenever I get the chance.

>>11447010
disgusting

>>11449641
You'll notice an obvious change in colour when you actually do the recipe, things will be fine. Just don't do it too early or the intense heat will solidify your eggs and you'll have to eat scrambled eggs and pasta.

>>11447180
What if the eggs came from Anon's chickens and not from a supermarket?

>>11446940
Super cheap version is to just use whatever fat you have like butter or olive oil and replace the bacon with bread crumbs. Its traditional as well for when you they didnt have any meat available. Also dont forget to add the pasta water after you mix everything to help give more body to the sauce.

>>11449818
Sounds disgusting. Isn't.

Fried rice using leftover rice.

The leftover part is important since making fried rice out of newly-cooked rice is horrible.

>around 1 metric cup uncooked rice (you use it cooked of course)
>3 eggs
>120g ground beef
>120g mixed vegetables
>onion and garlic
>soy sauce

>scramble 2 eggs and tear them to small pieces, set aside
>saute onion and garlic, add ground beef, then remove and set aside when it's brown
>add mixed vegetables, cook them for a bit (maybe add a spoon or two of soy sauce since they might be pretty bland)
>add rice and ground beef, break them around make sure they're not in clumps
>mix them around a lot for like 5 mins idk, just make sure the rice isn't just 'warm' but actually hot
>add 1 egg directly to the pan with the rice in it, mix thoroughly
>add a few spoons of soy sauce and bit more salt if you want
>finally, put the scrambled egg you tore up earlier and mix

Wala, shitty fried rice for 2 people or just you if you're a fat fuck. I think this is around 1500 calories total.

>>11447180
where I'm from as long as it says they're Grade A eggs on the box it should be fine.

>>11448010
Since I watched Boris' plov video, I've been making this dish like twice a week

>>11446940
Based

>>11446940
I just realized I'm an idiot and accidentally doubled the grams. It's 12.5g meat, 25g parm per person, although I personally think you should err on the side of slightly more meat. It's still 5 tbsp parm and about 1 strip of bacon.

>>11446940
> Budget carbonara
That's how authentic carbonara is made.
Bacon instead of pancetta is acceptable but don't use oil

https://youtu.be/FnIMCpevwTs

>>11451159
>Pancetta

>>11450809
Why not make a shitload of it once a week?

Drink rape oil. costs like 20cents per 1000 calories.

>>11446940
>went down to pepper town
>good recipe but fucked up with pepper

>>11450121
dunno where you're from but in the UK grade A just means that the shell is intact and the yolk is in the middle. You can only buy grade A eggs in shops. All chickens are vaccinated against salmonella anyway here

>>11452222
many people home

>>11447180
The chance of getting sick off store bought eggs is like, 1 in 10000

>>11446940
Carbonara is a one time deal, it's not 'cheap' in the long run.

You want to save money and have cheap easy meals you need to make large batch items for lunches and future dinners.

>>11446940
I made it, forgive my shitty picture, it looks better in real life. Good recipe anon, thanks.

>>11452827
I bought 2 boxes spaghetti, a carton of eggs, a pack of bacon, some parmesan and olive oil. It cost me $18 and I can probably make about 12 of them. So that's $1.5 a plate, really not bad, especially since I'll still have leftover olive oil when I'm done.