Curry Pasta & Sauce
For a quick and easy side dish or as the base of a casserole those pasta and sauce packets are very handy. Unfortunately they are also very expensive, running at anything between 99 cents and $2.50 per packet.
There are a lot of extras in the commercial product, including flavours and colours, that I don't particularly want to feed to my children so out of desperation and my definite dislike of cooking I came up with a Cheapskates pasta and sauce mix that suits my budget, is safe to feed to my children and that stores well in the pantry (this recipe can easily be doubled or tripled).
For under $1 you can make the equivalent of 4 packets of the bought product, saving up to $9!. If you like to calculate the per hour value, it takes less than two minutes to make up a batch so the hourly savings rate would be up to $270!
Curry Pasta and Sauce
Ingredients:
1 x 500g pasta (spirals, small shells etc) 50c
1-1/2 cups milk powder – 75c
1 tbsp parsley flakes – 5c
1 tbsp onion flakes - 5c
1tbsp curry powder (more or less to taste) – 5c
Mix together milk powder and seasonings together and store in airtight container. Add required quantity of pasta before cooking.
Method:
Bring 1-1/2 cups water to the boil. Add 1 tsp butter. Add 125g noodles and 1/4 cup of the sauce mix. Cook at a rapid boil for 10 - 12 minutes, until noodles are soft and the mixture has thickened. Makes 4 side dish serves.
Bring 6 ½ cups water to the boil and add the noodle mix. Stir in 1 tbsp margarine. Cook at a rapid boil for 10 minutes, until noodles are soft and mixture has thickened.
This recipe makes 6 main course size serves at a cost of 16c per serve.
To make this recipe a complete meal in minutes, add ½ cup peas, ½ cup corn kernels and a drained 185g tin tuna after 5 minutes. Bring back to the boil and cook until noodles are soft.
There are a lot of extras in the commercial product, including flavours and colours, that I don't particularly want to feed to my children so out of desperation and my definite dislike of cooking I came up with a Cheapskates pasta and sauce mix that suits my budget, is safe to feed to my children and that stores well in the pantry (this recipe can easily be doubled or tripled).
For under $1 you can make the equivalent of 4 packets of the bought product, saving up to $9!. If you like to calculate the per hour value, it takes less than two minutes to make up a batch so the hourly savings rate would be up to $270!
Curry Pasta and Sauce
Ingredients:
1 x 500g pasta (spirals, small shells etc) 50c
1-1/2 cups milk powder – 75c
1 tbsp parsley flakes – 5c
1 tbsp onion flakes - 5c
1tbsp curry powder (more or less to taste) – 5c
Mix together milk powder and seasonings together and store in airtight container. Add required quantity of pasta before cooking.
Method:
Bring 1-1/2 cups water to the boil. Add 1 tsp butter. Add 125g noodles and 1/4 cup of the sauce mix. Cook at a rapid boil for 10 - 12 minutes, until noodles are soft and the mixture has thickened. Makes 4 side dish serves.
Bring 6 ½ cups water to the boil and add the noodle mix. Stir in 1 tbsp margarine. Cook at a rapid boil for 10 minutes, until noodles are soft and mixture has thickened.
This recipe makes 6 main course size serves at a cost of 16c per serve.
To make this recipe a complete meal in minutes, add ½ cup peas, ½ cup corn kernels and a drained 185g tin tuna after 5 minutes. Bring back to the boil and cook until noodles are soft.