Cheap Healthy Chicken Nuggets and Spicy Potatoe Weges

Cheap Budget Food Ideas.

Let me start off this article straight away by telling you I am not a professional chef, although I do know the ins and outs of food.

My wife and myself where involved in the food industry for many years mainly supplying and catering for wedding's, corporate events party's you name it we have catered for it. Hot or cold food we have dealt with it all from small gatherings of twenty people too weddings of seven hundred plus.

So you see we know a bit about food, from the ordering the buying and the storage to actually getting it out there to the folk who need it for their particular spread.

We have had a lot of enquire's from folk asking us about budgeting for food in these austere times, and could we come up with some recipes for them. Believe you me we can, and we have, so I thought why not spread the word and let other people know you don't have to eat what the supermarkets want you to.

Right enough about us lets get to what you came here for some tasty healthy and cheap meals.

Here you go try this it only takes minutes to do:

Chicken Nuggets.

* Cooking Time: 20 minutes

Ingredients:
1 egg
½ a teaspoon garlic powder
4 slices of bread brown or white will do.
¼ pint milk
2lb diced chicken
¼ teaspoon paprika
Method:

* First, preheat the oven to gas mark 6 200 degrees c.

* Toast bread until a light brown then break up into small pieces use the crusts too.

* Reduce to fine crumbs in the food processor, if you don't have one break up with a rolling pin.

* Add garlic powder and paprika, and whiz again.

* Place the breadcrumbs in a large plastic bag or a deep tray.

* Beat the egg in a large bowl with the milk, and add the diced chicken, in batches if necessary.

* Transfer the chicken pieces to the bag or tray of breadcrumbs and toss to coat evenly.

* Arrange the crumbed chicken on a lightly greased baking sheet, and bake in a preheated oven for approximately 20 minutes until browned and crisped, and cooked through.

Nothing easier than that folks, and they this will easily feed four hungry kids,

If you don't already have them invest in a rack of dried herbs, shop around you should be able to buy one for about six pounds, when they run out top them up from the supermarket shelves, buy the herbs in cardboard containers to save a few pennies.

They are invaluable in a kitchen folks unless you grow you're own, fresh herbs are expensive from the supermarkets.

Why not cook some potato wedges and serve those up with the chicken nuggets, again make sure they are you're own don't be spending a lot of money in the supermarket. There is nothing hard about cooking this cracking recipe, go on treat those taste buds have a go you will not regret it.

Serves 4

4 Large Potatoes or 8-10 New Potatoes

Half a Teaspoon (To a teaspoon and a half depending on how spicy you like it) Each of -
Chilli Powder
Coriander Powder
Cumin Powder
Paprika Powder
Teaspoon - Tablespoon of Turmeric
Pinch of Salt
Pinch of Black Pepper.

* Wash and cut the potatoes into wedge size pieces but don't peel them. parboil until slightly soft 5 to ten minutes.

* Meanwhile mix the spices in a bowl.

* Coat the Potatoes evenly in the spice mixture, the turmeric acts as a bulking agent and for colour and helps evenly coat the potatoes with the spice mixture. Drizzle with olive oil

* Place in an oven on a oiled baking tray, on gas mark 7 or 425 F 220 C for around 20 minutes or until potatoes are crispy and golden brown, turn them once while they are cooking.

Serve up with the nuggets and you have a great healthy meal, for those wee darlings, good for Mums and Dads as well folks.

Every recipe I mention has been cooked by my wife, my family or myself.
Some of the supermarkets are coming up with good deals on budget food, you must have seen the adverts on the television. Make use of this cheap food have a look at my recipes, you will find you can easily use these ingredients to make a superb meal for that family of yours. And you never know you may enjoy being back in the kitchen, feeding that family healthy nutritious food.