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🥘 Carole’s – vegetable soup…

🥘  1 pan |  🍽 Serves 2 | ⏱ 25 mins | 🛒 10 ingredients | £4

A great way to use up vegetables and make a nourishing, flavoursome soup. Don’t forget to add some drops of Maggi® seasoning towards the end of cooking.

Ingredients:

  • 2 rashers of bacon, chopped
  • 1 leek washed and chopped
  • 1/2 red pepper, chopped
  • 1 large carrot, peeled and chopped
  • olive oil
  • 1/2 jar of leftover pasta sauce or tomato puree, or tinned tomatoes
  • plain flour
  • 4 small potatoes, quartered
  • can of butter beans, drained
  • 1 low salt chicken stock cube

Step by step:

Step 1

Fry off the bacon, leek, pepper and carrot in a dash of oil for 3-4 minutes. Make up the stock with 500ml of boiling water in a jug.

Step 2

Sprinkle some flour on top of the ingredients in the pan, then add the pasta sauce, tomato puree or tinned tomatoes. Add the stock, potatoes and butter beans cook for 20 minutes or until everything is soft. Add some Maggi® seasoning after 10 minutes. Check the seasoning. Chop some parsley and dress the soup to serve.

Kallo stock cubes £2 from most supermarkets

🥘 Carole’s firecracker rice with vegetables and chicken …

🥘  1 pan  🍽 Serves 2   🛒 9 ingredients ⏱ 30 minutes £5

Tilda® hot and spicy Firecracker rice is free from artificial colourings and preservatives. Ready in a couple of minutes the smoky, peppery basmati rice is vegan and gluten free.

Ingredients:

  • Olive oil
  • Small Broccoli with florets cut into bite size pieces
  • ½ red pepper, chopped
  • ½ onion, chopped
  • 2 tbsp olive oil
  • 1 chicken breast cut into 10 pieces
  • 1 pack Tilda® firecracker rice
  • ¼ tin of low fat coconut milk or 150ml of stock
  • Chopped parsley

Step by step:

Step 1

Fry off the chicken pieces in oil and set aside. In the same pan, add 1 tbsp of oil and fry off the onion, peppers and broccoli.

Step 2

Add the coconut milk and replace the lid (or pop a plate on top) to prevent the pan running dry. Cook for 10 minutes adding more coconut milk or stock as required.

Step 1

After 10 minutes, add the rice and chicken and put the lid back on the pan. Cook for another 3-4 minutes adding more coconut milk or stock as required. Add a dessert spoon of Maggi® seasoning.

Serve with chopped parsley and a drizzle of olive oil.