Saturday 24 October 2009

Prawn/steak noodles with peanut dressing


2tbsp peanut butter

1tsp sesame oil

1 tbsp soy sauce

50g mangtout halved length ways

1 diced red chilli

1 tbsp sweet chilli sauce

100g of noodles (preferably egg)

150g peeled cooked prawns or 0.292g of steak

2 shredded sprig onions

- whisk peanut butter, sesame oil, soy sauce, sweet chilli sauce and 2tbsp of boiling water. This will make the dressing. If needed add more water to make sauce thinner.

- Cook noodles per instructions, drain and place in bowel with cooked prawns/cooked steak and mangetout.

- Add diced chilli to dressing and mix. Then drizzle ontop of noodles.

- sprinkle spring onions ontop and serve.

Wednesday 21 October 2009

Lasagne

THIS WILL FEED 4 PEOPLE

1Kg of minced beef or quorn

lasagne sheets (the number depends on the size of dish used)

Frozen vegtables (amount depends on preferance)

500g of tomato sauce

1 tin of chopped tomatos

cheese (as much as you want)

1000g of white lasagne sauce (2 jars)

vegtable/olive oil

- heat oil, add mince and fry till brown (non stick pan is the best)ensure mince is broken up to cook quicker.

- whilst mince is cooking preheat oven to 180 degrees celcius. boil kettle and add frozen veg to bowel with hot water to defrost.

- once mince is cooked drain excess water and fat away.

- add tomato sauce to mince and mix then add tin of chopped tomatos and mix in aswell.

- At this point increase heat on mince tomato mixture, check on vegtables if defrosted add to mix and stir in.

- Leave mixture on heat for 10-20 minutes until bubbling through.

- whist mixture heats up grate cheese

- when the mixture is ready spoon a layer of tomato mixture into dish then add a layer of white sauce, then add lasagne sheets ontop to cover it.

- Repeat this till dish is full finishing with a layer of lasagne sheets then white sauce ontop. Add as much cheese as you like ontop.

- put in oven for 30-45 minutes depending on wheather oven is fan assisted or not.