If you're from Australia you're probably familiar with the 2 Fruit 5 Veg campaign to try and get people to eat more fruit and veggies. To help myself with this goal I now order fruit and veggie boxes. These are great in a few ways.
- Home delivered.
- Locally sourced.
- I don't have to choose what I want.
- I always get staples fruit and veggies.
- I also get a surprise seasonal selection, which is great, sometimes it will be a case of, "Wow, how do I use this?"
Seeing as there are only 2 of us though, we often have trouble eating all of it before it goes bad.
So I usually end up making one of a selection of dishes that allow me to "throw it in" if there are any spare veggies around. They all have a base recipe, but I can chuck in a selection of veggies I have around the place - most of them also freeze well, so they're great for lunches or nights when I can't be bothered cooking.
Tonight was
Chow Mein.
This is a pretty simple recipe that I got off the wondeful internet.
Ingredients500g mince meat
1 x 45g packet of chicken noodle soup
3 cups hot water
1/2 teaspoon curry paste
3 tablespoons of soy sauce
3 tablespoons of tomato sauce
2 tablespoons uncooked rice
1/2 cabbage shredded
1 cup French beans
2 onions, sliced
1 carrot diced
salt and pepper
Method1. Brown mince in a large pan.
2. Add water and soup, bring to the boil.
3. Add all other ingredients and simmer until vegetables are tender.
I will usually make this when I have some cabbage that needs to be used. I'm not massive fan of cabbage, but it's delicious in this. I generally use beef mince, but any old meat will do I'm sure. I'll put onions in if I can be bothered, often Matt will leave half an onion in the fridge, so I'll use it up. Beans aren't neccessary (but got into tonight's Chow Mein because I had some that needed using). I use Mee Goreng ramen noodles instead of chicken noodle soup and add the flavouring sachets from it as well as a good gob of sweet chilli sauce. Instead of salt and pepper I sprinkle the servings with sesame oil.
Tonight's Chow Mein was VERY heavy on the veggies. It included -
- Cabbage - of course, you kinda need the cabbage.
- Carrots - another essential I find.
- Red Capsicum.
- Fennel (yes, fennel! It was fine.)
- Spring onions.
- Zucchini.
- Celery.
- Brocolli.
The more veg you add, the more it stretches. Some of this will go in the fridge and some will go in the freezer.
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