In a crisis, the answer to the question "How to save money on food painlessly?" Becomes more relevant than ever. At first glance, a complete diet is costly. Although there are actually hundreds of inexpensive and healthy dishes out there.
It is these dishes that will be discussed in today's top ten, in which we have collected the most economical recipes.
10. Chanakhi with chicken
Dishes in pots are hearty and attractive. The most affordable option is to use chicken instead of pork or beef. For 4 servings, you need 4 chicken thighs, carrots, onions, 1 kg of potatoes, 50 g of sour cream, spices.
Fry chicken thighs with onions, put them in pots with chopped potatoes and carrots, fill with sour cream diluted in water. Salt and pepper to taste and put in the oven for 45 minutes.
9. Baked beet salad
This healthy, inexpensive salad can also be used as a side dish on the New Year's table. Bake one medium beetroot in the oven, wrapped in foil (you can boil it). Then peel and dice the beets, add 100 g of cottage cheese, a clove of garlic, parsley and season with vegetable oil with lemon juice, salt and pepper.
8. Cookie cake
The most budgetary cake can be made from 300 g of inexpensive shortbread cookies, a glass of milk, 150 g of sugar, two tablespoons of cocoa. Add nuts, raisins, or chopped banana if desired.
We crush the cookies with a rolling pin or grind in a meat grinder, dissolve sugar and cocoa in heated milk, pour crushed cookies. We place the warm mass in a split form and leave it to harden. Fill the finished cake with chocolate icing.
7. Oatmeal pancakes
For a useful and inexpensive delicacy, you will need 1.5 cups of oatmeal, a sweet and sour apple, an egg, art. a spoonful of sugar, a glass of kefir or sour milk, 1/4 teaspoon of soda.
In a blender, grind half of the flakes into flour, add the grated apple, sugar, egg, the remaining flakes and milk. Mix everything and add soda. Fry in hot oil.
6. Homemade shawarma
For a budget shawarma, you will need 300 g of chicken fillet, a package of pita bread, half a head of cabbage (preferably Peking cabbage), 100 g of sour cream, 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise, a tomato, an onion.
Cut the chicken fillet into strips, fry, salt and pepper. Finely chop the cabbage, chop the onion into half rings, the tomato into cubes. Mix the vegetables and season with sour cream and mayonnaise. Wrap vegetables and cooled fillet in pita bread.
5. Chicken leg aspic
For an inexpensive New Year's recipe, you will need 600 g of chicken drumsticks, 500 g of chicken legs, 1 onion, 1 carrot, a teaspoon of salt, 3 cloves of garlic.
Pour water over the shins and legs and put on fire. Drain the broth after boiling, add 2.5 liters of water and cook for 3.5 hours. Finally, add carrots, onions and salt. Separate the meat from the bones, put in containers, add carrots and garlic, pour broth over.
4. Sauerkraut
A source of vitamins, magnesium and calcium, this budget dish becomes just a godsend in the winter season of lack of vegetables and fruits. For cooking, you need 5 kg of cabbage, 100 g of salt, 1 kg of carrots. Shred cabbage, mix with grated carrots and mix thoroughly with salt, until cabbage juice is released.We ram the cabbage well and put it under oppression at room temperature for about three days.
3. Buckwheat
Despite the rise in prices, buckwheat remains one of the available products. To prepare buckwheat pancakes, you will need a glass of boiled buckwheat, an egg, herbs, a spoonful of flour and your favorite spices. Mix everything and put the buckwheat in the heated oil with a spoon.
You can add grated carrots or zucchini.
2. Bean lobio
For an inexpensive Georgian dish, mix 2 cups of boiled red beans with turmeric, two cloves of garlic, a couple of tablespoons of tomato paste, and grated carrots. Mix everything and simmer for 25 minutes, add a bunch of chopped greens.
1. Dumplings with cabbage and potatoes
For the dough, you need 300 g of flour, 100 g of water, salt. We use a mixture of boiled crushed potatoes with fried cabbage as a filling. Serve with sour cream or chopped herbs with garlic or classic fried onions.