Cheap roast?
Last night we attempted to have a cheap roast. On saturday we’d been down the lottie and done a bit of tidying and a bit of harvesting. We brought back several courgettes, cucumbers, baby carrots, potatoes, tomatoes, chillis, runner beans (given to us, mine have failed a bit) and beetroot.
The chillis went on the windowsill as soon as I got home – they’ll hopefully dry over the next few weeks and I can put them in a pot to use as required.
Cucumbers, tomatoes and courgettes went straight in the fridge, but the potatoes, beans, carrots and runner beans stayed out. Suplimented with whole sweetcorn and chicken we made a semi-roasted feast.
The sweetcorn and beetroot went in first, the sweetcorn rubbed with butter, salt and pepper and smartly dressed in tin foil. The beetroot was cut into strips about 1.5″ thick and were put in hot oil and butter and tossed in it. The spuds were put on to boil and once cooked smacked around a bit in the saucepan to fluffen them a bit. They were then added to hot oil and butter and tossed in it and stuck in the oven half an hour after the beetroot went in.
Because there was no fat on the chicken (skinless free range breasts) and breasts on their own could be a bit bland, we made up some garlic butter using unsuprisingly garlic (crushed), butter and dried mixed mediteranian herbs as nothing else was available. I sliced off the little breast wings to use as filling material, sliced the breast along the thick side and stuffed with garlic butter. The breast wings (the little bits usually found tucked under a chicken breast) is then used to fill up the cavity. The whole thing is then dipped in egg and rolled in breadcrumbs and stuffed in the oven.
30 minutes later beans and carrots were sliced and boiled and after ten minutes the whole lot was served on a plate.
We were stuffed. Plenty of food to feed the five thousand! Total cost each, probably no more than about £4.50, but then again this was a big meal and could have done two days worth if we’d been more sensible. The veg we used would probably have added a couple of extra quid on top of that.
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