Please add your "Approved Food" recipes here!

[joolzred]

Just an idea for a useful thread for us all (I hope!)

Chilli Con Carne

Makes 16 generous portions

(bold items come from Approved Food website)

1 tablespoon olive oil
4 onions, peeled & diced
2 cloves garlic, peeled & crushed
2 peppers, de-seeded & chopped
1 big can steak and kidney
1 big can red kidney beans (or 1 x 500g bag of soaked & boiled red kidney beans)
2 cans chopped tomatoes
2 tablespoons paprika
1/3 jar manzano chillies, drained & chopped (use less if you like it milder)
2 x 150g cans sweetcorn drained & rinsed (or 300g frozen sweetcorn)
2 tablespoons tomato puree
1 tablespoon mixed dried herbs
2 teaspoons dried mixed spice
black pepper
1/2 pint water

• You'll need a really big pan to make this, like a stockpot or a jam pan.
• Heat the oil and lightly fry the onion, garlic and peppers until softened.
• Add the herbs, paprika, chillies, mixed spice and black pepper (to your taste) and stir and cook for about a minute.
• Add the tinned tomatoes and tomato puree then the water and cook until boiling/simmering.
• Add the tinned steak and cook and heat on a low-medium heat until it's all simmering hot.
• Add the beans and sweetcorn and cook through for about 20 minutes.

Tips - add some red chilli powder or chilli sauce if it's not hot enough for you! Can be frozen.

Serve with some AF rice & I hope you like it :-)

[pumpkin]

This morning I made trifle with the kids. We used a packet trifle mix (AF of course) but added some slices of swiss roll and a tin of peaches. We'll probably add some extra sprinkles from the cake decorating stuff that I got in a luxury lucky box a while ago. All from Approved food.

[joolzred]

White Wine Gravy mix (24 for 99p!) makes a very nice base for Chicken Casserole! Will post up recipe tomorrow if I get time!

[Vicky T]

Nothing too elaborate here.

When roasting potatoes, add a packet of the AH lentil soup mix to the oil, in the last half hour add add a chopped up Mattesons sausage.
Serve with beans.

[Cestmoi]

For the fajita kits .... fry onions and peppers with the contents of the spice packet - half a packet is plenty for my family. You can fry without oil in water if you want a low fat version, and then put in a tin of the mexican bean soup and cook till its dry enough not to slop out of the wraps.

Serve with some salad and you have a great meal.

[joolzred]

Mediterranean Chicken Casserole (for 4)
     
4 x chicken legs, skinned & divided in half (1 x thigh & 1 x drumstick per person)
2 onions, chopped
1 large courgette, sliced thinly
2 tsp garlic puree(or 2 cloves garlic, crushed)
1/2  can chopped tomatoes
1/2 small jar sun-dried tomatoes, chopped roughly
60g/2oz drained olives, rinsed
2 tsp dried oregano
black pepper & salt
2 packets white wine gravy mix, mixed with 3/4pt cold water

• Put all of the ingredients into a large casserole dish adding the gravy mix last, stir very well
• Cover tightly, and cook at 180c for 1 1/2 hours, stirring a couple of times during cooking
• Serve with Approved Food cous cous or pasta

[merrywidow]

cheese scones,
follow the make up instructions on the packet and add 4oz of cheese.
sharon

[Crumble]

Beef Cobbler

Tinned Steak and Kidney ( filled half a casserole dish)
8oz of Scone/doughnut mix (made up with 3 1/2floz of water and big handful of grated cheese, pinch thyme)

After putting the stewed steak into the casserole top with rounds of cheesy scone mix and back in the oven at 180/ gas mark 4 for 20/25 mins.

Serve with steamed veg.

[joolzred]

Keep em coming!!

A new one from me (serves 2, easily)

Stir fried tofu & noodles (bold = AF ingredients)

1 pack Tofu
2 tablespoons Cornflour seasoned with salt, pepper and Chinese 5-spice powder to taste
sunflower oil, or other frying oil
1 bunch spring onions
1 red or green pepper
2 garlic crushed (or 2 tsp puree)
1 inch cube ginger, grated (or 1 tsp puree)
Sesame seeds
Soy Sauce to taste
1 pack ready noodles

-open the tofu, cut into 1 inch cubes and coat in the seasoned cornflour (add chilli powder if you like it hot!!)

-Slice the spring onions & pepper(s)

-Deep fry the tofu in hot oil and remove when crispy & golden brown on all sides. drain on some kitchen paper & keep hot.

-Heat a little oil in a wok , very hot. stir fry the spring onion, pepper(s) for a couple of minutes, add the ginger & garlic, cook for 1 more minute. Add the sesame seeds and cook briefly. Add soy sauce to taste.

-Add the noodles to the wok, and heat through as instructions, Serve topped with the hot tofu cubes.

Hope you like this recipe  

[joolzred]

Beetroot Chutney

2 lb diced cooked beetroot (weight when peeled)
12oz finely chopped onion (weight when peeled)
12oz cooking apples, diced (weight when peeled)
1 pint malt vinegar
2 x 1-inch cubes ginger, grated
2 tsp pickling spices
12oz sugar - white or brown
2 tsp salt

- Boil the vinegar with the spices for 5 minutes then drain.

- Put all the ingredients into a big heavy pan (preferably stainless steel) and add the vinegar (minus the spices)

- Boil gently until the chutney is thick-ish

- Spoon into clean, hot jars and seal. Leave for at least 6 weeks before tasting!

[mavis]

Beetroot Chutney

2 lb diced cooked beetroot (weight when peeled)
12oz finely chopped onion (weight when peeled)
12oz cooking apples, diced (weight when peeled)
1 pint malt vinegar
2 x 1-inch cubes ginger, grated
2 tsp pickling spices
12oz sugar - white or brown
2 tsp salt

- Boil the vinegar with the spices for 5 minutes then drain.

- Put all the ingredients into a big heavy pan (preferably stainless steel) and add the vinegar (minus the spices)

- Boil gently until the chutney is thick-ish

- Spoon into clean, hot jars and seal. Leave for at least 6 weeks before tasting!

.... and thank you again! I have another tin (or two  ) of beetroot to use.

[joolzred]

Pineapple upside down cake

Easy one this! (bold = AF items)

2 pots pineapple pieces, drained
1/2 pack (500g) cake mix, made up
brown sugar
1/2 teaspoon mixed spice

-grease a cake tin/deep oven dish

-scatter a thin layer of brown sugar over the base of the tin/dish, then the mixed spice.

-put a layer of pineapple pieces all over the base

-plop the cake mix on top & bake as per the packet

-turn out & serve with AF custard!  yumyum

[joolzred]

What we had for lunch today! 

(serves 2 generously.  bold = AF ingredients)

sausage & tomato pasta sauce

3 x frankfurter sausages, sliced
1/2 onion - chopped
olive oil
garlic - chopped
handful olives, rinsed & chopped
1 jar tomato & origano pasta sauce
black pepper

-heat olive oil, fry onion & garlic gently until softened.
-add tomato sauce, sausage slices, olives. season with black pepper (no salt as olives & sausages are salty)
-cook gently for 5-10 minutes
-serve over pasta. Hope you enjoy this one!

[mavis]

What we had for tea 5 minutes ago 


Mushroom Rissotto
1 punnet Asda Value Mushrooms
Couple of cloves garlic, chopped to taste
2 red onions, chopped
1 pack AF Rissotto Rice (the packs that didn't have any instructions)
Splash of red wine

Take the pack of rice outside and use a hammer to break it up properly.
Fry onions, garlic and  mushrooms in a little olive oil.
Add red wine. Cook for a few minutes.
Add rice. Do not add water as enough liquid in mushrooms, oil and wine.
Cook until rice is ready.

Hubby said that he should have used 2 packets of rice but I prefered it with plenty of veg.

(Apologies for lack of measurement but hubby made it and we don't do measurements, only go by look/taste). If it is a disaster then we eat it and then plan what we can do to make it better!

[Vicky T]

This is a nice quick cheap meal.

pasta
Dolmio cheese sauce.
couple of the peppers in jars
Tin of hotdogs.

Make up the pasta as normal, when its cooked stir in the cheese sauce an a couple of the peppers chopped up.
Put it under the grill to brown, with a little extra grated cheese.

Whils't its under the grill, open the can of hotdogs and get rid of the brine, fry till brown on all sides and serve along the macaroni.

Brown sause seems to be a hit with this as well.

Only thing I bought from the shop was cheese for the topping