These are all great recipes to reduce food waste, and would be an excellent meals to cook with your nana, mum or special lady in your life! Share your Nana’s best tip or recipe for reducing food waste to be in the running to win a beautiful day of pampering, styling and photo shoot with the two of you! Click here to enter: https://a.pgtb.me/SqB1fl For many of us even our Nanas, going out with the girls is part of our regular routine. Spice up the routine and invite your mum, grandmother, aunt, sister, daughter or other wonderful wise women over and have a creative cooking night! If everyone brings over a meal made from ingredients found at home, the possibilities are endless. Make it more fun by trying to think up crazy names for the dishes. By eating in and using leftovers, you’ll also reduce food waste and save money! In NSW alone over $694 million of leftovers are wasted each year. For some fantastic ideas, here are some recipes from Love Food Hate Waste.
Fried rice
Make your favourite take-away dish at home.
10 mins preparation + 15 mins cooking (plus cooking and cooling time for rice)
Serves 6
Ingredients
- 1 cup long grain rice
- 2 eggs, beaten
- Olive or canola oil spray
- 1 teaspoon olive or sesame oil
- 75g lean leg ham, diced
- 1 onion, diced
- 1 red or green capsicum, seeded and diced
- 2 cups Chinese cabbage, shredded
- 1 cup green peas, cooked
- 1 cup sweet corn kernels, cooked
- 200g can peeled baby prawns (optional)
- 1 cup bean shoots
- 2 spring onions, diced
- 3 tablespoons reduced-salt soy sauce
- 1 tablespoon oyster sauce
This recipe contains 13 serves of veggies.
Cook rice following packet directions, drain and cool completely. Lightly spray a heated non-stick pan with oil and pour in eggs to make a thin omelette. Cook over gentle heat until set. Transfer to a plate and slice thinly. Set aside. Lightly spray the same pan with oil and cook ham and onion until golden. Add capsicum, cabbage, peas, corn and prawns. Cover and toss well for several minutes. Add remaining ingredients except omelette. Stir until sauce has mixed through. Fold in sliced omelette. Serve hot.
Beetroot and potato salad
A great twist on everyone's favourite potato salad.
10 mins preparation + 45-60 mins cooking
Serves 6
Ingredients
- 5 medium potatoes, scrubbed, cut into chunks
- 4 medium beetroot
- 4 spring onions, sliced
- 2 sticks celery, sliced
- 1 Lebanese cucumber, sliced
- ½ cup plump raisins or sultanas
Dressing
- 1 tablespoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon red wine vinegar
- 1 tablespoon orange juice
- 3 tablespoons chopped fresh herbs (parsley, mint, coriander and/or basil)
This recipe contains 19 serves of vegies.
Steam potatoes for 15-20 minutes until tender. Boil unpeeled beetroot for 30-40 minutes until tender. Cool, peel and cut into wedges. Mix all salad ingredients in a serving bowl. Combine dressing ingredients in a screw-top jar and shake well. Toss through salad and serve immediately.
Variation
Balsamic vinegar or lemon juice may be substituted for red wine vinegar.
Hint
Salad can be prepared beforehand but do not add beetroot and dressing until just before serving as the beetroot will colour the potato and cucumber.
Poached Pears
An impressive dessert when entertaining family and friends.
10 mins preparation + 15 mins cooking
Serves 6
Ingredients
- 1L (1000ml) dark grape juice
- 6 pears, peeled and quartered, cores removed
This recipe contains 6 serves of fruit.
Pour juice into a saucepan and bring to a boil. Lower the heat, add pears and simmer for 10–15 minutes or until just tender. Turn pears over to cover in juice during cooking. Remove from the heat and allow to cool in the syrup. Serve warm or cold.
Microwave Instructions
Arrange pears in a deep microwave dish, add juice and microwave on HIGH (100%) for 5 minutes. Turn pears and microwave for 3–5 minutes or until tender. Allow to cool and serve.
Serving suggestions
Pour over syrup and serve with a dollop of low-fat natural yoghurt or reduced-fat vanilla ice cream.
Variation
Try substituting apple juice for grape juice and adding ¼ cup caster sugar, or use red wine and ½ cup caster sugar. Add sugar to the juice or wine and simmer until sugar dissolves before adding pears.
These are all great recipes to reduce food waste, and would be an excellent meals to cook with your nana, mum or special lady in your life!
Share your Nana’s best tip or recipe for reducing food waste to be in the running to win a beautiful day of pampering, styling and photo shoot with the two of you!
Click here to enter: https://a.pgtb.me/SqB1fl