Recipes From Students for Students
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Recipes include:
1. Spring Fry
2. Shakshuka
3. Sunny doughnut breakfast
4. Double sauce pasta
5. Home-made beef sandwiches
6. Chinese-style chicken
7. Crunchie on the cheap
8. Rocky Road
9. Prawn cocktail lunch
10. Italian-style pasta
By Ben Shi
Ingredients:
300 g potatoes, peeled & well sliced (Morrisons Potatoes 5kg bag =?1.78)
200 g carrots, chopped (Morrisons Carrots 1.5kg bag = 57p)
1 pepper, roughly sliced (Morrisons Peppers = 68p each)
2 pieces of spring onion (Morrisons Spring onion bunch (8 pieces) = 70p)
pinch salt
Cost around: £1.03
Steps:
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Heat the pan first and fry the potatoes and carrots
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Put spring onion and pepper in and fry (when the veggies turn into nearly done)
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Add salt finally
Tips:
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Put less oil but a little more salt (Otherwise not in good flavour)
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Not to fry too long. Try some bits from time to time.
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Minced beef/pork is also welcome to be served together (flavour the meat first)
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By Donalda Visockyte (sourced from Student Beans)
Ingredients:
4 tablespoons olive or sunflower oil
1 large onion (or several smaller ones), peeled and sliced
1 red and 1 yellow pepper, cored and cut into 2cm strips
2 teaspoons sugar (optional)
2 x 400g cans of chopped tomatoes
1 tablespoon paprika
1 teaspoon ground cumin
Salt and pepper
½ teaspoon cayenne pepper (optional)
4 free-range eggs
Bread to serve or pasta (or both if you are an especially hungry student)
Cost: £3.77 for total and serves 4. (Now that’s much more value for money than a takeaway for one person!)
Steps:
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Heat a large saucepan, add the oil and sauté the onions on a medium heat, stirring occasionally for about ten minutes, or until soft.
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Add the peppers and sugar, and cook on high heat for another five to ten minutes, stirring occasionally so that they get a nice colour but don’t burn.
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Add the chopped tomatoes, paprika, cumin, cayenne, and a generous pinch of salt and pepper. Swill half a can of water around the tomato tins and add this to the pan.
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Simmer gently on a medium heat for 15 minutes, or until the sauce has thickened.
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Taste and adjust the seasoning by adding more salt, pepper and spices
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Make four small dents in the sauce, and crack an egg into each of them.
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Sprinkle salt on the eggs, and cover the pan. Cook for 10 minutes, until the egg just sets.
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Serve with pasta and/or bread. Brown bread for a healthier joice!
When it comes to cooking, be creative. Add diffferent ingredients or omit the others – improvise! I added some chicken and curry spices to the dish to give it a little extra taste. Also, when you try out a new recipe like I just did, use half the amount of ingredients listed to see if you like it. I absolutely loved Shakshuka and I will definitely make it again.
Tuck in!
P.S.: you can get the Student Beans student recipe book here, where you can find
how to make your own gummy bear shot glasses and other great recipes:
http://static1.beanscdn.co.uk/assets/external/download/Studentbeans-
RecipeBook.pdf
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By Ben Shi
Ingredients:
1 egg (Morrisons 18 eggs box = ?1.89)
1 doughnut (Morrisons 5 doughnuts box = 65p; Buy 2 for ?1)
pinch black pepper
Cost around: 24p
Steps:
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fried the egg
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cut the doughnut in half
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put the egg in the doughnut and with black pepper
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serve with a cup of hot coffee/tea
Time around: 5 minutes
Tips: If put doughnut into oven for a couple of minutes to warm up, that will be more yummy.
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By Ben Shi
Ingredients:
250 g pasta
(Morrisons Pasta Twists 500g = 30p)
400 g potatoes, peeled & chopped
(Morrisons Potatoes 5kg bag = £1.78)
300 g carrots, chopped
(Morrisons Carrots 1.5kg bag = 57p)
5 pieces cabbage, sliced
(Morrisons Cabbage =76p)
4 chicken wings
(Morrisons Chicken Wings 700g bag = £1.33)
1/2 teaspoon (tp) salt, 2 tp curry powder
250 ml tomato soup
(Morrisons Tomato Soup 500ml =24p)
Cost around: £1.22 for two meals
Steps:
1. Boil all the veggies with 500ml water (10 minutes)
2. Put chicken wings in, salt & curry powder (5 minutes)
3. Mean time when boiling veggies, boil pasta (20 minutes)
4. Put pasta and toppings into one container
5. Finely stir with the tomato soup
Time around: 20 minutes
Tips:
Keep the water as low as possible when boiling the veggies. Otherwise it is soup not sauce.
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Ingredients:
3 pieces of bread (Morrisons Loaf = 47p)
1 free-range egg (Morrisons 18 eggs box = £1.89)
100 g mince beef (Morrisons Mince Beef 800 g = £2.39)
4 pieces of cabbage, roughly sliced (Morrisons Cabbage = 75p)
A pinch salt,
A splash of salad cream
Cost around: 50p
Steps:
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cure the beef with salt for 5 minutes
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fried beef until it is well done
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fry the egg
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serve beef, egg & sliced cabbage on a slice of bread layer by layer
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add the salad cream on to the cabbage & egg
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cut into 2 sandwiches
Time around: 12 minutes
Tips:
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Fry beef first as it is oily when it is fired
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Fry the cabbage at last if you want as it will grab the remaining oil in the pan
By Deena Sequeira
Serves 4
Ingredients:
½ Red pepper sliced and chopped well
1 well chopped onion
1 tsp chopped ginger
1 tsp oyster sauce
1 tbsp sweet & thick soya sauce
1 ½ tbsp olive or sunflower oil
3 garlic cloves
400 g fillet Chicken diced
Thin soya sauce to taste
Cost around: £3.00 (Cost of chicken included)
Steps:
1. Sauté the onion, garlic and ginger with the oil for around 3 minutes
2. Empty the chopped red pepper into the pan and stir for 1 minutes
3. Add the diced chicken into the pan
4. Add all the sauces and leave it to simmer until chicken is cooked and ready to serve!
Time: 20mins
Tips: You can find the oyster and soya sauces in any Chinese shop in town. Try going to Kirkgate market for the tiny groceries as you can buy in bulk for much cheaper prices! Lastly, serve the chicken with a veggie dish and some rice and you get a nice fully home-cooked meal.
By Winnie Ip
Ingredients:
4 tablespoons Golden Syrup (Morrisons – 66p)
200g Caster Sugar (Morrisons – 99p)
3 teaspoons Bicarbonate of soda (Morrisons - £1.29)
100g Chocolate bar (Morrisons – savers 39p)
Tiny bit of butter (Free – assuming you already have it)
What you need:
Baking tray of some sort!
Saucepan that’s big enough for the syrup and sugar
Something to mix with
Microwavable bowl
Steps:
1) Grease your baking tray and set it aside ready for later.
2) On medium to high heat, boil syrup and sugar together.
3) Once mixture is brought to boil, simmer on low heat for 5 – 10 mins
4) Remove from stove and mix the Bicarb in FAST!
5) Pour into baking tray and let it harden
6) While waiting for your honeycomb, break chocolate into chunks
7) Melt chocolate in a microwavable bowl in 20-second intervals.
8) Break your honeycomb into bite size chunks and dip into melted chocolate.
9) Place them on the original baking tray and into the fridge for an hour.
Tip: You’ll know your honeycomb mixture is ready by putting a drop of it in water. It’ll turn brittle!
By Winnie Ip
Ingredients:
250g Marshmallows (89p)
15g Butter (Morrisons - £1.19)
180g Peanuts (Morrisons – 72p)
100g Chocolate bar (Morrisons – Savers 39p)
Condensed milk (optional – Morrisons – 99p)
What you need:
Microwavable bowl
Baking tray
Something to mix with
Steps:
1) Grease baking tray lightly with butter.
2) *optional* Cut marshmallows into roughly the same size as your peanuts. (If not already)
3) Melt chocolate and the remaining butter in microwave by 20-second intervals. Mix mixture until chocolate is silky smooth.
4) *optional* Add condensed milk into chocolate mixture.
5) Mix peanuts and marshmallows into chocolate.
6) Pour mixture onto your greased baking tray and place in fridge to set.
7) Cut into whatever shape and size you want!
by Lauren Fongauffier
Serves 1
Ingredients:
80 g. of prawns
3 tsp of mayonnaise
1 tsp of ketchup
1 small bunch of parsley, finely chopped
5 slices of cucumber
3 cherry tomatoes, halved
8 capers
1 medium bap
Salt, pepper
Costs around: £1.50
Steps:
1. Mix the prawns with the mayonnaise, ketchup and parsley, on a plate. Add the capers on top.
2. Arrange the slices of cucumber and halves of tomatoes around the prawns. Season them with salt and pepper.
3. Halve the bap and toast it.
Lunch is ready!
Time: 5-10 mins
Tips:
I used a ketchup with chilli to make the cocktail sauce a bit spicy.
Instead of capers, you can also use a squeeze of lemon juice.
by Lauren Fongauffier
Serves 2
Ingredients:
160 g. Penne pasta
1 red pepper, cored, quartered and then finely sliced
1 onion, peeled and chopped
5 green olives and 5 black olives, halved
125 g. of Mozarella, roughly diced
1 carton of 370 g. of chopped tomatoes ('Finely chopped tomatoes with herbs', Morrisons The Best)
Salt and pepper
Costs around: £3
Steps:
1. Cook the pasta according to the instructions on the packet.
2. Fry the onion on a medium heat for about 10 minutes, stirring regularly. Then, on a low heat, add the chopped tomatoes and cook for 5-10 minutes.
3. In a separate pan, fry the red pepper on a low to medium heat for about 20 minutes – until soft. Stir regularly too.
4. When cooked, drain the pasta. Then divide onto plates. Add the onion, tomatoes and red pepper.
5. Add the olives and mozarella. Season with salt and pepper. Stir. Enjoy!
Time around: 30 mins (including cooking time)
Tips:
I also used Fusilli pasta for this recipe but you can use other shapes, according to your taste.
Before cooking the pasta, put a bit of oil in the water. This will prevent it from becoming sticky.
If the red pepper is not soft enough after 20 minutes, add a bit of water in the pan and cook for a further 5 minutes.
Stirring all the ingredients together, when on the plate, will melt the mozzarella and make it more tasty.
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