5 Quick and Easy, Kid Friendly meals to help use up your leftover meat.
Stir fry
Creating the Sauce
1 whole lime juice
2 tbsp soy sauce
2 tbsp honey
200ml veg stock or stock left over from the meat.
Mix all the ingredients into a measuring jug put to the side
Making the Stir fry (Great to use up Chicken, Pork or Beef)
Break or chop any left-over meat into strips.
Chop two carrots, a couple of florets of broccoli chopped small, and 1 red pepper.
Onion and garlic can be added too or any vegetable that your children will eat!
Add a small amount of oil and fry on high for 3 minutes. (My children prefer raw carrots and peppers so the vegetables will be on the crunchier side but you could cook the vegetables for longer.)
Add the sauce and cook for a further 3 minutes, topping it off with a sprinkle with sesame seeds.
Serve with rice or noodles.
Easy-Peasy Chicken wraps
Wraps can be made with lots of leftover items, those vegetables and sauces from the fridge that may otherwise go to waste.
Select your Wraps of choice (Flour, whole wheat, gluten free or even Brioche Style)
Leftover chicken strips
Grated cheese
Avocado
Grated carrot
Mayonnaise and wrap it all up!
Chicken Noodle Soup
Leftover chicken bits
Chicken stock / stock cube
Sweetcorn
Peas
Onion or Garlic
Use a tall saucepan for this recipe
Fry the onion or garlic.
Add the cooked noodles, I usually use the ones that are already cooked.
Place the stock cube in boiling water about 200ml.
Then add all the rest of the ingredients into the saucepan and cook for 3 more minutes until hot.
Sweet n Sour Pork Noodles
Sauce
1 small tin of pineapple juice, keep the pineapple for adding to the noodles
2 tbsp Tomato Sauce
2 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp brown sugar
½ tsp grated ginger
Cut the pork into strips.
Fry an onion and garlic, and any vegetables.
Add the pork and pineapple chunks.
Then add the sauce and cook for 3 minutes, serve with rice or noodles.
Pesto Pasta Chicken
I literally do this when I have no time to cook or prepare dinner.
Everyone has their favourite pesto but I usually buy the ingredients and make it myself, then freeze it for a later date.
Homemade pesto
Two big handful of basil leaves,
25g grated parmesan,
olive oil (adding a bit at a time to the blender to ensure to get the right consistency.)
Add a pinch of salt.
½ a garlic
50g pine nuts.
Blend altogether.
Cook the pasta and then take a large tablespoon of pesto and mix in the chicken, pesto and pasta.
You can add broccoli, peas or sweetcorn, I found this very effective.
