Please suggest some hearty home cooked, one pot meals?!
I need them to be nutritous, hearty and most of all tasty. Traditional is good too. If you could point me towards a recipe you have used and has been loved by ALL your family that would be great!
Ive already got..
Cottage Pie
Corned Beef Hash
Answers: Im trying to get into cooking home made food every night. Im going shopping later and thought this week i would plan some meals and buy what i need, instead of buying a lot of things that just end up going out of date!
I need them to be nutritous, hearty and most of all tasty. Traditional is good too. If you could point me towards a recipe you have used and has been loved by ALL your family that would be great!
Ive already got..
Cottage Pie
Corned Beef Hash
It would take too long to give you all of the actual recipes, but here are some things I make that are easy & done in one pot. Go to cookinglight.com, eatingwell.com, recipezaar.com, allrecipes.com or foodtv.com for actual recipes. Some of these recipes may call for cream, but I use lowfat milk and thicken the sauce with cornstarch if necessary. It doesn't change the flavor, but gives the same creamy texture with less fat & calories.
Beef Stew
Chicken Pot Pie (done in one, large dutch oven & not individual pots)
Chili
Braised pork chops (also known as Smothered pork chops)
Soup (Chicken & Rice, Beef Vegetable, etc...)
Jambalaya (doesn't have to be spicy if you don't want it to be)
Chicken & dumplings
Another thing I do is to make a few batches of Italian meat sauce or meatballs and freeze them. Then, if spaghetti is on the menu plan, take the sauce or meatballs out of the freezer & put in the fridge to thaw a day or two before and then all you need to do on spaghetti night is to make the pasta add the sauce or meatballs and put a salad on the table.
I used to waste a lot of food & money years ago until I started menu planning. It's saved me so much money and keeps me from staring into the fridge at dinnertime wondering what I'm going to make. I make a menu plan for whatever days I plan on cooking and then make an ingredient list and stick to that when shopping. That way I have on hand what I need and not a lot of extra items that spoil.
Hopes this helps! Enjoy and congratulations for cooking nutritious, loving meals for your family!
get a pork tender loin and if you have a crock pot just poor a can of cranberry sauce over the pork loin and mix in a packet of lipton onion soup mix and cook on low all day it is really good and the cranberry and onion soup mix become a really good sauce as they cook down
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Irish Stew - One Pot Recipe
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I particularly love this recipe for lamb as everything goes in one pot so you don't even have to worry about what to serve with it. After a bit of preparation you can just leave it to cook and get on with other things! I use my slow cooker (my best friend!) but you could just as easily do it in a casserole dish in a conventional oven.
Servings: 4-5
Level of Difficulty: Easy
Preparation Time: 20 mins
Cooking Time: 5-8 hours slow-cooked (1.5-2 hours oven-cooked)
Ingredients:
500-600g diced lamb
2 Onions
Sliced carrots (or baby carrots)
Whole new potatoes OR peeled, quatered potatoes
2-3 leeks
Green beans
1 litre hot vegetable stock
Mixed Herbs
Seasoning
Plain flour
Optional: parsnips (I find the flavour of these can be a bit over-powering so tend to leave them out), button mushrooms, other veg of your choice!
Method:
1. If oven cooking, preheat oven to 190C/375F/Gas Mark 5
2. Coat the lamb in the seasoned flour
3. Fry the lamb in some olive oil to seal it
4. Add the onions, leeks and beans (and other veg of your choice) and fry them for a short time too
5. Add the potatoes, stock, herbs and seasoning and bring to a simmer
6. Transfer all the ingredients (carefully!) to the slow cooker or casserole dish.
7. Leave alone for several hours while you get on with life, and then come back at the end of the cooking time and serve - delicious!
Of course, some crusty bread to mop up the lovely juice would be nice
I always make double this amount (I have a huge slow cooker) and then freeze half for another ultra-rapid meal another day! Just note that potatoes don't taste too good after having been frozen so I tend to only do enough potatoes for one meal and make sure they all get eaten before freezing the rest of the stew!
I cant submit them in detail so instead I found you a whooooole bunch of them thru Recipe Zaar and posted the link with my search findings. Go thru, find the ones you like and keep them. Also keep in mind for good healthy one pot meals your slow cooker is your best friend. If you dont have one ......invest in one. They helped me out alot when i was single.And some from the Food Network.
you cant beat homemade soup i cook with there skins on all the veggies that are in season boli them up in a chicken stock cube when they are done put all of it into a blender add a touch of nutmeg and salt and pepper and blend it but if you add pulses like kidney beans, black eyed peas,pearl barley etc cook the pulses first drain the water then blender all together with a nice piece of homemade crusty bread thats a winter warmer i do this quite often when we have bad weather
I make this easy dish all the time.I always have lots of garlic and a gallon of italian vin rose,and sherry on hand.Dont use cooking wine.(too expensive)I use the thighs w/skin for best flavor.Heat oil and a few garlic cloves in skillet.Remove garlic.Season chicken w/oregano and basil,salt pepper,and brown on both sides.Splash sherry or wine in too.Sherry gives chicken a sweet flavor too.Dont cook chicken all the way.Pour lots of wine over chicken,Put about 10 garlic cloves cut in half in.Cover and simmer for about a half hour.Your looking for a skillet with lots of delicious juice.Boil some long pasta and pour the juice over pasta in a bowl.Pasta will suck up all the delicious juice.Top with parma cheese.
One meal my family likes is this chicken dish I make. I cook boneless/skinless chicken in a cake pan. Then when the chicken was done, I put a large can of cream of mushroom soup on the chicken. Then mix in what type of veggies your family will eat. If they like peas and green beans put some in it. If they like corn put some corn in the pan. Cook it on 350 till you see the soup and veggies bubbling. (Usually after a half hour or so)You can also cut up potatoes and add into it. The other day I made this with stuffing. I mixed some water in with the stuffing. Then spread it evenly across the top of the soup and chicken.
I have also tried other meats such as pork chops and steaks.
The best part is it's filling, has meat and veggies in it, and it only uses one pan.
coq au vin , delicious + different, it's chicken
For this meal you'll need a 12-inch cast iron skillet with lid. You need to buy a nice chuck roast, some potatoes and carrots and a whole onion and a bottle of Marsala cooking wine.
Pre-heat the skillet, into which you've poured two tablespoons of canola oil or vegetable oil. Corn oil will work fine, too, but PLEASE don't use olive oil - I don't care how much Emeril likes the nasty stuff! Sear the meat on both sides, then pour in half a cup of the marsala and half a cup of water. Peel your potatoes and carrots and add them alongside the meat. Peel and slice the onion and place the slices on top of the meat. Place the lid on the skillet, reduce the heat and allow this dish to simmer for an hour to an hour and a quarter. Bring the meat to table on a pre-warmed platter and the veggies on the side. You won't need a gravy for this one. Salt and pepper to taste and enjoy!