Chorizo, potato and king prawn casserole

A hearty and delicious stew, which can be eaten by itself or with bread or rice.

Ingredients:

1 chorizo sausage - gift.  (From Lidl 1.49)

1 onion - 25p

King prawns - reduced from 2.99 to 39p

Fresh chilli - leftover in fridge

Lemon - 25p

Red wine - leftover in bottle

2 medium potatoes - 20p

Tin of tomatoes - 35p

Chicken stock cube

 

Peel and slice the potatoes - quite small, perhaps inch cubes, so they'll cook quickly!  Par boil them.

Chop the onion and slice the chorizo (remove its skin!). Fry the onion til softened, and add the chorizo, so the chorizo juices colour and flavour the onion.

 

Put the tinned tomato, chicken stock and some red wine into a pan, and heat til nearly boiling.  Then add the potato.

Add the chorizo and onion, and add a generous squeeze of lemon juice.  Add the finely chopped fresh chilli.

Let simmer gently on the hob until the potato is cooked. 

Just before it is ready, fry the prawns over a gentle heat until cooked and then add them to the stew.

*Keep adding red wine if the stock becomes too low.  Season to taste, and perhaps add more lemon juice.*

Serves 3 or 4.  To make the casserole go further, just add more potatoes.
Total cost - £2.95

Greek style salad

This simple but delicious salad has very definite Greek overtones, but omits tomatoes and uses lettuce instead.  The olives are pitted and from a jar (brine), but still work well.

Ingredients

1/4 cucumber (half reduced to 15p) - 8p

1/2 Round head lettuce (reduced to 29p) - 15p

Small red onion -5p

1/2 block of feta/feta style salad cheese (I use Morrison's Value) 50p - 25p

1/3 jar of black pitted olives (59p) - 20p

Olive Oil

Lemon juice

Black pepper

Tear the lettuce, cut cucumber and slice onion.  Put into a bowl, and add olives and crumble the feta.

Dress with olive oil, lemon juice and freshly ground black pepper.

Total cost: 73p

Savoy cabbage stir fried in garlic with streaky bacon pieces and walnuts

This is incredibly simple and delicious.  Savoy cabbage in season is about 50p. 

Ingredients

Savoy cabbage

Streaky bacon

Small pieces of walnut

Knob of butter

Garlic

Prepare some bacon lardons or streaky bacon and fry or grill until crisp.

Slice the cabbage and gently stir fry in a little butter and garlic.  Season with pepper.

Serve straight away, sprinkling the cabbage with the bacon and walnut pieces, and stirring through.

Makes a great side dish or stand-alone snack.

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