What can you eat if you are living on what you had stored?

These are meals that we eat on a daily basis. They are frugal meals, and they are made using items from my pantry shelves and my garden. Sometimes they include a few inexpensive additions. I use the seasonal menus when planning what I'm going to make each day.

Today's Featured Recipe: 

 

Chicken Curry

1 TBSP vegetable oil
1-2 TBSP freeze-dried onions
2 cans chicken (or 1 1/2 cups cooked chicken or turkey)
2 TBSP butter
2 TBSP curry powder
dried minced garlic or garlic powder
24 oz yogurt or sour cream
2 cups golden raisins

salted peanuts

cilantro (optional)

2 cups dry basmati rice, cooked to equal 4 cups of rice

 

Cook rice while making curry.

 

Re-hydrate onions by soaking in frying pan with a small amount of water for a few minutes. Add vegetable oil and chicken and cook until onions are soft. Remove chicken and onions from the pan.

Melt the butter in the pan over low heat. Add the curry powder and sprinkle in some garlic. Stir in the yogurt (or sour cream) and raisins.

Add chicken and onions back to the pan.

Serve over cooked basmati rice. Top with peanuts.

 

If you have cilantro growing in your garden, you can sprinkle chopped cilantro over the top.

 

We like to eat our curry with chapatis on the side.