Beef and Bean Burritos

While the meat was browning we diced the
capsicum and tomatoes

I call it deliciously ugly

Today we enjoyed some very healthy and tasty burritos...mmmm...this is a firm family favourite. The recipe I used uses a lot of vegetables, in fact each serve is approximately four serves of vegetables, we added onions, garlic, capsicum, tomatoes and corn. The proportion of lean mince to kidney beans is 1:1.5 ie. We had one kilogram of mince so I used 1.5 kilos of kidney beans.

Prior to the roll up!

I used frozen corn and canned beans in this recipe , both are quality ingredients in their prepared form. As I am teaching simple recipes there seemed little point adding the extra work of pre-preparing these ingredients.

The beef and bean burritos were served with guacamole, lettuce, low fat greek yoghurt, grated cheese and fresh coriander.

If you wanted to save the leftovers there are a couple of options.

1. Make up the burritos with the mix plus cheese, wrap them in cling wrap and freeze them. You can then pull them out of the freezer as needed, bake them in the oven and top them with salsa. Serve with a fresh salad. Don't forget to take the cling wrap off!
2. Freeze the mix in individual portions and then reheat and serve with rice and salad.
   

Roast Chicken and vegetables for One

This Tuesday there was a wintery chill in the air, so perfect weather for cooking a healthy version of roast chicken and vegetables. The maryland pieces had the fat and skin removed, we then scored the flesh and marinated the meat in chinese five spice, soy sauce and chinese cooking wine. By keeping the guidelines of;
25% protein
25% potato
50% vegetables
makes for a well balanced and nutritious meal. I suggested to the students that with the leftovers they could make a 'bubble and squeak', even add an egg to the pan (as there was no chicken leftover) to bulk out the protein...anyway leftovers always taste so good. The choice of maryland is very economical and perfect for one! Roasting your dinner in the one pan also minimises the clean up, that's never a bad thing!

Italian Meatballs and salad

Italian meatballs and salad

Started with my students on Tuesday and enjoyed a delicious meal of Italian meatballs served with a green salad and crusty bread.

A perfect meal for one as the meatballs and sauce can be frozen into single portions, served as we did today or with pasta, rice or potatoes....mmm....

You could even make larger meatballs and shape them as burgers, freezing them raw and cooking them later on the BBQ as needed. Here is the link to the recipe.
Italian Meatballs