We’ve all been there, cooking when you have about $2 to feed yourself and would rather do anything but cook isn’t fun. Mi Goreng is a godsend, but it’s also nice to branch out and eat something else every now and then. Here are four easy recipes for when you’ve eaten way too many noodles.
Overnight Oats
Serves 1
Make these before you go to bed, and when you get up in the morning you can grab it from the fridge and throw it in your bag. They’re super filling, too. You can put absolutely anything you want in overnight oats, but this is my favourite.
Ingredients:
1 banana
Bag of oats
Honey
Milk (it doesn’t matter what sort)
Peanut butter
Method:
Chop up the banana. Fill a jar with the oats and the chopped banana, and shake it up so that the banana spreads throughout the jar. Pour enough milk into the jar to cover everything, then put some honey and peanut butter on top. Close jar, and put in the fridge overnight.
Coconut Chickpeas
Serves 2 (or can be divvied up into 3 or 4 meal prep containers)
I practically live off chickpeas. You can get them for like 80 cents a can, they’re filling, and they’re good for you. If you want to get fancy, you can add eggplant to this. Cut one up and put it in the oven for 20mins at 180 degrees, then put the roasted eggplant in the frying pan with everything else.
Ingredients:
2x cans of chickpeas, drained
1x can of coconut milk
2 teaspoons of garam masala
2 teaspoons of turmeric
60g bag of spinach
Method:
Whack everything except the spinach in a frying pan, and stir for about 10mins. Chuck the spinach in and keep cooking until it wilts. Done.
Lemon Chicken
Serves 4
Impress your parents with this one, it’s healthy AND sounds like an actual human meal.
Ingredients:
4 chicken breasts
1 lemon worth of juice
1 tablespoon of honey
2 crushed garlic cloves / 1 tablespoons of garlic from a jar
1 teaspoon oregano
Method:
Preset the oven to 190 degrees. Flatten out the chicken breasts a bit and put them in a pan or oven dish with high edges so the sauce doesn’t fall off. Mix everything else together and microwave for 1 minute to make the sauce. Pour the sauce over the chicken. Put in the oven for 30 minutes, and every 5-10 minutes take it out and flip so that as much chicken soaks up the sauce as possible.
Baked Potato
Serves 2
As if I wasn’t going to include baked potato. Easy af, tasty af, cheap af.
Ingredients:
4 large potatoes
Olive oil
Salt & pepper
6 spring onions, chopped up
1 packet chopped bacon
50g butter
Cheese
Method:
Preheat the oven to180. Use a fork to stab the potatoes all over, then rub them with olive oil, salt, and pepper. Bake them in the oven for 1 hour and 15 minutes.
In a frying pan, fry up the spring onion and bacon.
Once the potatoes are done, (carefully) cut them in half lengthways, scoop out the potato and put it in a bowl. Mix the potato with the spring onion, bacon, and butter. Scoop it back into the potato skins, put heaps of cheese on top, and put back in the oven for another 10-15 minutes.
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