Last night's dinner was Ethiopian Lentil Stew. I served it with sourdough bread. With the sourdough, it was quite good (but then, Ethiopian food is served with injera bread, which is sour). Without the sourdough, it was just "meh". I don't have a picture. I had it for lunch today and will have it again Thursday for lunch, so there's still time...
Tonight's dinner was fried rice, and I did quite a good job today.
Fried Rice:
1 cup uncooked brown rice: 0.60
1 3/4 cup water
1 T. canola oil: 0.04
4 green onions from the garden, sliced: 0
2 cloves garlic, minced: 0.10
1/2 Tbsp grated fresh ginger: 0.05
3 small carrots, diced: 0.20
1 medium summer squash, diced: 0.50
1 cup frozen peas: 0.50
10 cherry tomatoes: quartered: 0.30
3 eggs: 1.06 (these are free range eggs...)
2 T milk: 0.02
2 tsp dark sesame oil: 0.15
2 T. low sodium soy sauce: 0.17
juice of 1 small orange (from our tree)
salt and pepper to taste
Total: $3.69 for about 5-6 cups, or $0.67 per serving.
Cook the rice a day ahead. I use the rice cooker.
Heat oil in nonstick skillet over medium high. Add zucchini and carrots and peas and saute until the zucchini starts to brown at the edges and is cooked. Add the ginger, garlic, and green onions. Saute 30 sec. Add the rice and stir-fry for about 5 mins to warm. Add S&P to taste.
Beat the eggs and milk in a small bowl. Add S&P to taste.
Move the rice to a bowl. Add a bit more oil if necessary, and add the eggs. Cook the eggs, breaking up, until set. Add to rice in the bowl.
Add the quartered tomatoes and saute until they give up most of their juice. Add the soy sauce. Add the eggs and rice mixture. Add the sesame oil and orange juice. Mix well and heat through.
We served this with steamed broccoli (tossed with olive oil, S&P).
Steamed broccoli:
almost a pound of fresh broccoli ($0.67), cut into florets. Peel the stalks and slice.
Steam in the microwave with a little water for 4 min.
Toss with 1 Tbsp olive oil (0.10), and S&P.
This makes 4 servings, $0.19 each.
(There's some sourdough bread and hummus on the plate too.)
4 comments:
You know how they say that stews taste better the next day? Maybe that is what is going on here. I also maintain that sourdough bread makes most things better. Injera is pretty delicious also.
I've never had injera bread, but I bought nan bread for the first time recently, that was delicious.
You have your own orange tree. I can't even imagine.
Yep, I did make the stew on Sunday and ate it on Monday. I do like Injera, though not sure where to find it here. Not in a big city anymore. I'll see tomorrow how the stew is with regular bread.
Our orange tree is pretty nice. Last couple of years have been sour because of a frost, but they are sweet again this year. The oranges don't peel well though, so I have to peel them with a knife.
I grew up in the northeast, so it's nice to have an orange tree!
And I LOVE naan.
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