We all need some easy-to-cook and fun recipes. So here, we will share two such amazing complete meal recipes that will be loved by all members of your family alike.
Easy to make fried rice
‘Fried rice is something all of us love. The good thing is it is a complete meal in itself and is very easy to make,’ comments Julie, an online reviewer who did the best composting toilet for tiny house review.
The dish has a thirty-minute cooking time and a ten-minute preparation time. Here below, we will provide you a recipe that will easily serve four people.
What do you need?
- A cup of white rice
- Two lightly whisked eggs
- Two teaspoons of vegetable oil
- One tablespoon of soy sauce
- Half a cup of thawed, frozen peas
- Two chopped bacon rashers
- One peeled and grated carrot.
- Two shallots finely sliced and neatly trimmed, and some extra sliced shallots for serving
- Sesame seeds for garnishing
How to make it?
- Take a cup of white rice in a decently sized pan. Put it in boiling water, and leave it for about fifteen minutes. After that, you have to drain the water and leave the rice for cooling.
- Now take a non-stick pan, and heat some oil in it. Ensure that the pan is lit at medium flame.
- Next, add eggs to it, and swirl the base, like you would for making an omelette.
- Cook it for two minutes or till it is fully set.
- Further, you have to transfer the egg to a chopping board and cool it for a bit.
- Now, take a knife and dice it into short strips.
- Next, take the bacon, and add it to wok.
- Let it cook until it becomes light golden. This may take a maximum of five minutes.
- To it, add a carrot, and stir fry for one minute.
- Now, take the rice, peas, and shallot and add to it.
- Let this mix cook for about three to four minutes. Make sure you constantly stir the mixture.
- Now, you can add soy sauce and eggs to the mixture.
- Keep stirring till it is finally cooked.
- Now, your fried rice is ready. You can sprinkle some sesame seeds and garnish them with some shallots.
- Your fried rice is ready to be served.
Lasagne
‘Lasagne is our favourite Sunday meal. We cook it once every week, and usually on a Sunday. Though easy to make, it does have a long cooking time,’ shares Rosy, an educator who offers online poetry class.
The recipe that we are sharing with you will need twenty minutes of preparation time and one hour and twenty minutes of cooking time. The cooked lasagne will be enough to serve eight people.
What do you need?
- Two teaspoons of olive oil
- Mixed salad leaves for garnishing
- One finely chopped halved brown onion.
- Two crushed garlic cloves
- Half a cup of dry red wine
- Two 400 gram of cans Italian diced tomatoes
- 750 gram of regular Coles beef mince
- Four fresh lasagne sheets
- Additional Olive oil for greasing
- Freshly ground black pepper
- Salt
- One-fourth cup of tomato paste
- Half cup of Devondale mozzarella cheese coarsely grated
Cheese sauce
- Pinch ground nutmeg
- Sixty-grams of butter
- Ground white pepper
- Two bay leaves
- Four whole cloves
- Eight whole black peppercorns
- Four cups of milk
- One-third cup of plain flour
- Salt
- One cup of finely grated parmesan
- Eight whole black peppercorns
- Eight fresh parsley stalks
- One finely chopped halved brown onion.
How to make it?
- First things first heat the oil in a large pan on a medium flame. To the hot oil, add garlic and onion, and let it cook for about five minutes. Next, to the mix, add mince and let it cook.
- Keep stirring the mixture with a spatula to avoid any lump formation. Continue this for five minutes or till the mince changes color. Next to the mix, add tomato paste, wine, and tomato, and bring the mixture to boil.
- Switch the flame to low, and continue uncovered, stirring for 30-minutes.
- Take the mixture off the heat, and taste it.
- Now, add pepper and salt according to taste.
- For making the cheese sauce, combine parsley stalks, onion, peppercorns, bay leaves, and milk in a medium pan on medium flame, and bring it to boil. After a boil, remove from the flame, and keep aside for fifteen minutes.
- Now, strain the milk via a fine sieve and transfer the sauce to a bowl.
- Now, take a large pan, and melt butter in it on a medium-high flame. Now, once foaming has started, add flour and let it cook for two minutes. Now, remove the pan from heat.
- Next, slowly pour in half of the milk. Use a balloon whisk, and continuously whisk it till you get a smooth mixture. Now, you can add the remaining milk and repeat.
- Now, place the pan on a medium-high flame, and bring it to a boil while stirring for about five minutes. Remove from the flame, and add parmesan, and keep stirring till cheese melts. Now, taste the mix, and add salt, white pepper, and nutmeg, as required.
- Preheat the oven at 180°C.
- Take a rectangular ovenproof dish of three liters and grease it with oil.
- Now, spread one-fourth of the bechamel sauce on the prepared dish’s base, and take one lasagne sheet and arrange it onto the sauce.
- Layer it with the one-third mince mixture and one-third of the bechamel sauce. Go on layering with the reminder sheets and the mix. Sprinkle mozzarella on top, and put it on a baking tray. Now, take it for baking for 40-minutes. Remove from the over, and leave for 10-minutes.
- Cut the lasagne into eight pieces, and serve with mixed salad leaves.
