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    Quick Dinner Ideas: Healthy Recipes: American: Thai: French: Spanish: Italian
    Quick Dinner Ideas: Healthy Recipes: American: Thai: French: Spanish: Italian
    Quick Dinner Ideas: Healthy Recipes: American: Thai: French: Spanish: Italian
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    Quick Dinner Ideas: Healthy Recipes: American: Thai: French: Spanish: Italian

    By Chef Albert

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    101 quick and healthy recipes that can be prepared for under a Dollar (based on $4 for four people)

    Examples:

    French-style chicken with peas & bacon
    Cost $4 - Feeds Six
    Ingredients
    8 skinned & boned chicken thighs
    6 rashers of streaky bacon
    2 sliced cloves of garlic
    1 handful of sliced spring onions
    300ml chicken stock
    250g frozen peas
    1 shredded iceberg lettuce
    2 tbs crème fraîche

    Prepare
    Fry the bacon in no oil over a medium heat for three minutes until the fat is released and the bacon is golden.

    Remove the bacon, add the chicken and fry in the same fat for five minutes and then add the onions & garlic. After one minutes pour in the chicken stock and simmer for fifteen minutes.

    Then add the peas and lettuce for the final two minutes, stir in the crème fraîche and serve

    Stunning Thai Chicken
    Cost $4 - Feeds Four
    Ingredients
    3/4 lb chicken
    3 spring onions, sliced
    1 clove garlic, sliced
    1 teaspoon sesame oil
    1/2 teaspoon cornstarch
    2 tablespoons soy sauce
    1 tablespoon honey
    1 1/2 teaspoons curry powder
    1 red pepper, thinly sliced
    1 tablespoon olive oil
    1/4 teaspoon sliced fresh chili
    1/3 glass of water

    Prepare
    Mix garlic, honey, sesame oil, soy sauce, curry powder, red pepper, cornstarch and water until blended into a paste.

    Place a wok over a high heat and warm the oil. Fry the onions and red pepper, stirring frequently until the vegetables are soft.

    Stir in the paste with the chicken pieces and cook, stirring to coat chicken well.

    Serve over cooked rice or with noodles and a sliced cucumber side

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherAlbert Jack
    Release dateNov 9, 2015
    ISBN9781311989031
    Quick Dinner Ideas: Healthy Recipes: American: Thai: French: Spanish: Italian
    Author

    Chef Albert

    Albert Jack is a writer and historian. His first book Red Herrings and White Elephants explored the origins of well-known idioms and phrases and became an international best-seller in 2004. It was serialized in the Sunday Times and remained on their best-seller list for sixteen straight months. He followed this up with a series of other popular titles including Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep, Pop Goes the Weasel, What Caesar did for my Salad & They Laughed at Galileo. Fascinated by discovering the truth behind the world's great stories, Albert has become an expert at explaining the unexplained, enriching millions of dinner table conversations and ending bar room quarrels the world over. He is now a veteran of hundreds of live television shows and thousands of radio programs worldwide. Albert lives somewhere between Guildford in England and Bangkok in Thailand. OTHER BOOKS BY ALBERT JACK javascript:void(0) Red Herrings and White Elephants Shaggy Dogs and Black Sheep Phantom Hitchhikers Loch Ness Monsters and Other World Mysteries Pop Goes the Weasel The Old Dock and Duck What Caesar Did for my Salad Black Sheep and Lame Ducks It's a Wonderful Word Money for Old Rope Part 1 Money for Old Rope Part 2 The Jam: Sounds From the Street Want to be a Writer? New World Order: The Bilderberg Conspiracy and the Last Man in London Rose Versus Thistle They Laughed at Galileo The Greatest Generation - Diary of a 1st & 6th Airborne Paratrooper 9/11 Conspiracy Debt Freedom Program Gun Control

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      Quick Dinner Ideas - Chef Albert

      Introduction

      The ongoing recession affects most households where it really counts -- right in the pocket. Unemployment, falling wages and rising food prices have caused over ten percent of all American households to claim government food assistance benefits.

      In fact, research has shown that it is hard for one in six Americans to put enough food on the family table each day. However, regardless of your financial situation, the chances are high you are looking for ways to cut costs in these uncertain times.

      Fortunately, there are many cost-effective and delicious meals that families on a budget can enjoy for less than $1 per serving. And to start you off there are twenty-one new delicious, healthy options included in the first of a new series of easy recipes simply called;

      Dollar Dinners

      Eat for Thirty Dollars a Month

      French Recipes

      Braised Lamb with Beans

      Cost $4 - Feeds Four

      Ingredients

      2lb of boned shoulder of lamb (or leg)

      2 tins of beans (haricot or other white beans)

      2 chopped carrots

      2 large & rough chopped onions

      4 unpeeled garlic cloves

      1 oz butter

      1 glass of dry red wine

      1 cup beef stock

      1 handful of fresh herbs to taste

      Prepare

      Season the lamb with salt and pepper and place in a large casserole pot with the butter. Pour olive oil over the top and cook for ten minutes on a medium to high heat until browned.

      Remove the lamb and add the onion, carrot & herbs and stir through for ten minutes before including the wine & garlic. Simmer for one minute and replace the lamb.

      Pour in the stock, bring to a boil before reducing the heat. Add the beans, cover with lid and simmer on a low heat for forty minutes or until the lamb is tender and breaks easily with a fork.

      Remove the lamb and continue to boil the sauce with no lid until reduced by half. (ten minutes)

      Adjust seasoning and serve with fresh green beans and mash potato

      Warm French Bean and Chicken Salad

      Cost $4 - Feeds Four

      Ingredients

      1 lb of fresh green beans

      1 lb skinned chicken breast

      1 chicken stock cube

      3 tbs soy sauce

      1 tbs minced fresh ginger

      2 cloves garlic, minced

      3 tsp toasted sesame oil, divided

      2 tbs chopped cashews

      Prepare

      Add sliced chicken to the stock and boil gently until cooked (ten - fifteen minutes) Set aside and then refrigerate once cooled

      Into the stock stir in the remaining ingredients, including the sliced beans, and simmer until thickened into a sauce.

      Serve with sprinkled crushed cashew nuts and crusty French bread

      Classic Cheese and Tomato Salad

      Cost $4 - Feeds Four

      Ingredients

      2lbs refrigerated (cold) ripe plum tomatoes, sliced and diced for variation

      Sliced Mozzarella cheese

      4 tbs olive oil

      Oregano

      Basil

      Salt & black pepper

      Prepare

      Mix all of the above ingredients and add herbs and spices to taste.

      Drizzle over oil, (possibly add black olives if you have some)

      Serve with fresh crusty French bread.

      Gratinee (French Onion Soup)

      Cost $4 - Feeds Four

      Ingredients

      5 lb of thinly sliced onion

      1.5 litres of beef or chicken stock

      Olive oil

      4 oz Butter

      1 small glass of sherry

      Salt and pepper to taste

      Prepare

      Heat butter & olive oil and gently cook the onions until browned. (thirty minutes) Add the stock and bring to a boil and then simmer for twenty minutes. Add salt & pepper and fresh garlic if desired.

      Serve with sprinkled cheese and fresh crusty French bread and salad.

      Bistro Chicken

      Cost $4 - Feeds Six

      Ingredients

      4 skinned chicken breasts

      2 white onions

      1 cup of flour

      half a kilo of chopped mushrooms

      half litre of chicken stock

      Garlic, parsley, oregano & parsley

      salt & pepper

      Prepare

      Season the chicken breast with salt and pepper and then dust with flour. Fry gently in olive oil for ten minutes each

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