Mexican Style Potato Wedges (Serves 1 - a million)
Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cooking Time: 50-60 minutes
Ingredients:
- 1 to a million of Asda’s Baking Potatoes Pack cut into wedges (£0.50) (The amount of actual potatoes you want varies on how many people you want to serve, whether they’re a side-dish, a full meal, or a snack. I’d guess at about 1 medium sized potato per person is about right for a snack/full meal or 1 medium sized potato to serve 2 people as a side-dish.)
- Asda Paprika (£0.58)
- Asda Mild Chili Powder (£0.66)
- Asda Black Pepper Mill (£1.86)
Method:
- Firstly, mix the spices and the pepper in a mixing bowl with some vegetable oil (enough to cover all of your wedges, lightly). Add as much or as little spice as you like; depending on how spicy you want your potato wedges!
- Put the potato wedges into the bowl and mix them around so they’re completely covered in the spices and oil.
- Put the wedges on a baking tray and cook on the top shelf at 200degreesC in a fan assisted electric oven for 50-60 minutes or until they’re thoroughly cooked.
Serving Suggestions/Tips:
- I like to put these on the top shelf so they get nice and crispy while cooking.
- These go nice with just about anything, quite literally. Chillies, burgers… well, you name it and they’ll go with it. They’ll also do very nicely by themselves in a big serving bowl for parties or gatherings.
- You can use any spices you like for this to be honest, as long as you get the chili powder or some cayenne pepper in there for the spiciness. Experiment with what you like and with what tastes best for you. You could always add the black pepper after you’ve put the wedges on the baking try, that works nicely too.
I’m afraid there’s no picture for this recipe, but I still haven’t found my camera, but once I have I’ll put some up for you. I use this recipe all the time!
I also decided not to put up any nutritional information for this recipe as it’s basically all just carbohydrates and fibre… I mean, they’re just potatoes. I like having these when I feel low on energy or like my blood sugars are getting low as they give me a nice, permanent top up on carbohydrates which break down into blood sugars.
Tofu and vegetables in BBQ sauce (Serves 2)
OK, so this is my first recipe and is actually what I had for my tea tonight! It required minimal effort and was easy to do and actually came out really, really yummy! It didn’t cost that much either… perfect!
Preperation time: 10 minutes
Cooking time: 20 minutes - as long as you want.
Ingredients List:
- Full pack of Cauldron Marinated Tofu (£1.92? I’ll get the exact price for you later, that’s just a guess!)
- 7 of Asda’s Extra Special Picollo Cherry Tomatoes, cut in half (£1.57)
- 2 of Asda’s Organic Onions - Red, chopped (£0.94)
- 1 of Asda’s Peppers - Red, cut into chunks (£0.87)
- A handful of Asda Smartprice Sultanas (£0.65)
- 2 of Asda’s Organic Spring Onions, washed and chopped (£0.88)
- 1 jar of Asda’s Cooking Sauce - Barbeque (£0.98)
- A squeeze of Gia Puree - Garlic (£0.56)
Method:
- Firstly, cook the red onion, spring onion, pepper, sultanas, tofu and tomatoes in vegetable oil on a medium heat in a normal pan until they’re starting to look nice and cooked then stir in the garlic puree (add as much as you want; if you like a lot of garlic, obviously add a little more!). (10 minutes)
- When the mixture has got nice and hot and the ingredients are all cooked, stir in the full jar of the cooking sauce and turn down to the lowest heat. Leave to simmer until the sauce is heated throughout. You can leave this to simmer for as long as you need to finish whatever before eating. (10 minutes - as long as you need)
Serving Suggestions/Tips:
- I had this with some Mexican style potato wedges. You can either pre-buy these (Inspire Mexican Style Potato Wedges - £0.60) or make your own by chopping a potato into wedges (I like to keep the skins on), mixing a little vegetable oil, mild chilli powder and paprika in a mixing bowl; putting the wedges in the bowl and “swirling” them around till they’re fully covered. These will take about 45-50 minutes to cook in a 200-degrees-C, fan assisted electric oven, but I like to leave them in a little longer so they get all brown and crispy!
- You can replace the fresh vegetables with the frozen, pre-chopped varities if you prefer and are feeling extra lazy! (Don’t be ashmed if this is you, we all can be lazy at times!) Don’t worry about getting frozen vegetables, they’re just as good as the fresh kind and they still keep all of their nutrients.
- Feel free to add extra vegetables too! Or to replace the tofu with another meat substitue. There’s no such thing as too much veg!
- The sultanas add a little sweetness to the meal; yummy!
- This can serve 2 (if you like big portions) or can even serve 4. If there’s just one or two of you and you don’t have as big an appetite as I do, you can freeze this easily enough and just throw it in the microwave for 3-4 minutes on full power (850W microwave) next time you fancy it!
Nutritional Information (these are approximate and based loosely off of the ingredients added together - per 100g):
Fat: 18.9
of which saturates: 2.9g
Calories: 360
Protein: 17.9g
Carbohydrates: 28.5g
of which sugars: 21.4g
Fibre: 3.2g
Sodium: 2g
equivalent as salt: 4.4g
I’m afraid there’s no picture for this as I can’t find my camera… as soon as I find my camera I’ll make this again and upload photos for each stage!
Lazy Vegan Guide
Well, here’s the guide to using the Lazy Vegan Blog! I’m going to try make it as easy as possible to understand what’s going on in my Blog while giving you as much information as possible! I hope this is useful for you!
I will update this and add some more if I decide that it becomes relevant.
If you want to cook with a specific ingredient, then search the ingredient you’re interested in cooking with and you’ll find some relevant recipes =)
Codes
- Text in green is going to signify a food that contributes to your five a day! Which we all know is really, really important!
Update
OK, well it seems that this theme won’t let me change the colour of fonts, even with HTML, so instead I’m going to just put an image of a little apple next to each ingredient that counts towards your five a day. Like so:
Other
- After each ingredient is listed, I’m going to put the price of the ingredient (based on Asda prices in the UK and if specifically mentioned, sometimes other stores). This will look something like: Tofu (£91915.00). Though, obviously tofu won’t cost this much! We’re also going to be trying to keep prices down here!
- At the end of each recipe, I’m going to list some basic nutritional information of the yummy food you’ve just cooked and enjoyed!
Introduction to my blog
Alright, so this is the first time that I’ve done what I hope is going to be a regularly updated blog, so it might take me a little while to make everything run smoothly.
For a start, I can’t take images of all the lovely food that I’ve created because I have no idea at all where my camera has got to. Though, as soon as I have, I might recreate some of the recipes and take images of them for you.
I hopefully want to make the blog pretty accessible and easy to work out what’s going on with wonderfully coloured texts which signify certain things such as 5 a day etc. etc. I’m also going to be putting in nutritional information and tell you how much it’s going to cost to buy all that you need!
I’d definitely recommend using the tags at the side to try to find what you’re looking for; I’m going to tag some of the key ingredients in recipes so if you’re looking for a specific way to get rid of the last of that tofu, then you can look for recipes that call for tofu.
Alright, so I’m going to write a guide so you can gain some idea as to how my blog is going to work and run =)
Take care, love Laura.
