Cilantro pulled chicken.

Chicken breasts, Pace Salsa (hot natch, cilantro.

my favorite chicken recipe is literally just chicken thighs/drumsticks pressure cooked with soy sauce. no extra salt or seasoning, just serve with some white rice and stir fried veggies.

Corn and beans, 3 ingredients. 1 cup dried beans (around 50 cents), 1 can of TJ cut corn (89 cents), 1.5 cups water. Pressure cook the beans and water for 30 minutes. Release pressure or wait for it to drop by itself depending on how impatient you are. Stir in the corn.

Before you stirred in the corn, the just-cooked beans were boiling hot, but since the corn was at room temperature, the whole mix now is nice and warm but not scalding, so you can eat it right away. Nourishing (natural protein combination), low sodium, vegan, tasty, cheap, hard to beat.

Stew or Roast

Pkt of either stew or roast seasoning (or brown gravy pkt if you’re out of the other stuff)

Meat, cut up for stew or whole for roast

Potatoes, cut however you prefer

Baby carrots on top

That’s it.

Slow cook on low all day or high for 4 hrs.

Use the juice to make gravy (add a little cornstarch or flour and bring to a boil)

Enjoy!

Sous vide French dip. I’m actually making this now.

Everything I like has more than 5 ingredients if you count seasonings. Might as well heat up soup.

1. Can of soup

Under 5 ingredients? Farikal.

3 kg lamb meat 3 kg cabbage 8 tsp whole, black peppercorns 4 tsp salt 600 ml water

That’s 5 ingredients. Including salt, pepper and water. As an asian, I was dubious about this, but it packs and amazing amount of flavour from so few ingredients. Serve with baked/boiled/mashed potatoes, or bread, and a cold beer.

Gulasch

Tip: get frozen veggies mixes, it’ll make your life easier

Dutch Pea Soup

• A fuck ton of split peas (soak overnight)
• Broth
• Smoked sausage
• Bacon
• Veggies
• Season to taste

Day Chili

• Can of beans
• Can of chickpeas
• Can of tomatoes
• Veggies (I like squash, corn, parsnips)
• I guess you can add meat if you really want
• Season to taste (use a shit ton of chili powder and cumin)

Really you can make just about any soup with a base of broth or tomatoes, veggies, and whatever else you want to toss in. Most of the flavor is gonna be in the seasoning. The slow cooker will draw out the water in the veggies so you need less broth than you may think.

Lentil soup is my favourite

1. Lentils (any colour)
2. Diced carrot
3. Diced celery
4. Diced onion
5. Half a diced sweet potato

Chili mac is also really good

1. Macaroni
2. Can of crushed or diced tomatoes (or marinara sauce if you prefer)
3. Ground beef or your vegan alternative of choice
4. Taco seasoning
5. Chili powder to taste

• chickpeas (canned bc im lazy)
• garam masala
• tomato sauce
• coconut milk
• water/broth if needed

you can serve with rice or bread, or eat them on their own

brazilian beans.

• a cup or two of beans soaked overnight (discard the soaking water). you can make with black beans, but i prefer pinto (whoa)
• 1 or 2 clovers of garlic
• 1 or 2 large onions
• salt
• water or a stock of your choice (works better with meat or vegetable stock)

sautée the diced garlic and onions in cooking oil or lard until golden. add the strained beans, about a teaspoon of salt, cover with water or stock up to 1.5, 2 cm above the beans. cook for about 30 min in a pressure cooker over low fire. after done, mash some beans to free some starch to the broth and adjust the salt to your liking. serve with some white rice, lettuce and tomato salad, and a protein of your choice (steak with onions, roasted chicken, fish fillet, sausages, pork steak, schnitzel, fried egg and veggie patties are popular choices).

if enough broth is left over, it can be served on its own as soup on small cups, often with some drops of the hot sauce of your choice (tabasco, jalapeño, sriracha). this is called “caldinho”, or little broth, and goes well accompanying beer, caipirinha, mojito or daiquiri.

you can also add some other things to boost your beans. popular choices are diced tomatoes or tomato paste, diced bell peppers, winter squash cubes, green onions, cilantro, parsley, powdered cumin, bacon or jerky cubes, diced sausages, or roasted meat/pork leftovers.

Do spices count as ingredients? My mother always pressed into me so much to have a stocked spice…drawer? Rack? Thing? that I don’t think of them as a number for the recipe. “Of course I have black pepper, salt, oregano, bay leaves, etcetc” but I realize maybe I should count them before giving recipes!

Curry.

• curry paste
• coconut cream
• whatever veggies and legumes you have
• a side of rice

Pot Roast

• beef/pork roast preferred
• potatoes
• carrots
• celery
• onion
• radish
• seasoning packet/stock & seasonings

I rarely have all of the ingredients, and proportions depend on what’s on hand.

I could probably just say assorted root vegetables as one ingredient honestly.