Chicken and Chorizo Salad

Tis the season for yummy salads, tra la la la la… Salads do not need to be boring and here is one of my fave combos, so good I had it for dinner two nights in a row. Roasting a chicken and using the leftover meat for various dinners is a really cost effective way of eating meat as £2.50 will stretch to a minimum of 6 meals.

leftover chicken, 40gm chorizo, half a red onion, mozzarella, salad leaves, lemon, oil, honey, wholegrain mustard, tomatoes and balsamic glaze

15 mins serves 1

Start by heating a frying pan with a tbsp of oil, then gently fry a red onion. After a couple of minutes add the sliced chorizo. Once it is starting to darken in colour, add the chicken and then add a squeeze of lemon, 1tbsp of mustard and 2tbsp of honey. Mix together and cook for a further couple of minutes on a low heat. While it is cooking, make a bed of salad leaves with sliced tomatoes and a squeeze of balsamic. Top with the chicken and chorizo mixture and enjoy.

*If you would like some carbs, add a tortilla wrap cut into small squares when you are frying the onion with another tbsp of oil*

Garlic Prawns with Summer Salad

Now there have been a WHOLE two days of sun in Manchester it is time to get the shorts and suncream out and eat yummy summery food. While this is an indulgent dish, it came to £3.20 in total, so not break the bank wild-woho!

Prawns, lemon, butter, garlic, chilli flakes, lecture, rocket, pointed red pepper, cherry tomatoes, mozzarella, olive oil, balsamic glaze, bread to serve

15 mins

Preheat oven to 190c. Start by slicing a pointed red pepper into strips and pop in the oven with a handful of tomatoes and a drizzle of oil. Next, slice the lettuce for the salad and place on a plate with the rocket. Heat a frying pan and melt a generous knob of butter, finely chop 2-3 garlic cloves and add to the melted butter, take care not to burn. After a few minutes (ensuring the garlic isn’t brown) add the prawns and a pinch of chilli flakes. Turn up the heat slightly and fry for a further 4-5 minutes until the butter is starting to brown, then add a squeeze of lemon. While the prawns are cooking add a few slices of mozzarella to the peppers in the oven. Once the mozzarella is soft add to the salad, and top with balsamic glaze, serve with some crusty bread, squeeze of lemon and a glass of wine. (Remember to mop up the sauce from the pan, thats where all the best bits are!)

Summer Scallops

Now the sun is finally shining its is time for some good old fashioned summer food.

Scallops (I used frozen ones from Aldi and they were brill!), new potatoes, lemon, oil, garlic, salad

15 mins

Start by cooking your new potatoes until soft and once done plate them up with some salady bits. To cook the scallops, heat up a frying pan with a generous glug of oil. Place the scallops in, I went for 2-3 minutes either side. When you turn the scallops throw in a clove of sliced garlic. Once the scallops are cooked, squeeze some lemon and oil over everything with a good grind of salt and pepper and enjoy.

Holidays

Now it is the summer I have decided to give blogging a bit of a rest until going back to university in September, hopefully for some great food then! (My mother is also cooking so lovely food and I don’t want to claim it as mine!) Thank you for all the support, Josephine x