Please help me with dinner, no oven and must be gluten free?

[bollocksthemess]

We’ve had no oven for weeks and I’m seriously running out of dinner ideas using just the hob.

My partner is gluten intolerant, and hates fish, so rules out pasta dishes and pan-fried fish-and-two-veg dinners.

I’ve done chilli/stew/curry to death, we have had chicken and veg dinners about 100 times. I need some inspiration because I’m out of ideas. Can anyone help?

Ask him to cook ? Just a thought

Bangers and mash. Soup. Omelette. Stir fry with rice. Egg and potato waffles (I do them in the toaster).

Endless possibilities with stir fries.

Have you tried the pasta from the FreeFrom ranges?

Spicy prawns, veg and rice noodles? With some kind of gf sauce?

Spaghetti Bolognese with gluten free pasta.
Salads with more substantial ingredients - rice, chicken, lentils, beans etc

Oh ffs not prawns strips of beef maybe

Risotto?

Free from pasta? Courgetti spaghetti, cauli rice, fritatas, soup, creamy mushrooms on free from crusty bread, beef stir fry, sausage casserole, microwavable baked potatoes, haloumi salad, pork chops,

Gluten free pasta

Mushroom stroganoff

Milanese dishes....with gf spaghetti

Full English

Rice dishes

Buy a slow cooker for if possible and stick joints of meat in

Omelette, chicken chorizo rice, risotto, gluten free fajita kit (heat wraps in the microwave), egg fried rice with chicken mange tout and baby corn,
chicken, salad and boiled new potatoes.

I'd cook up some quinoa with half a stock cube and add some veg/beans to it, then leave to cook until it was relatively dry. Stir some curry paste (or your favourite sauce) through it and serve!

If quinoa is out, do the same with rice

Stuffed taco shells, nachos?

My DH/DS are gluten intolerant and we regularly eat the following that could all be cooked on the hob...

Risotto
GF pasta with veg/tomato sauce
Curry/dhal & rice
Sausage, mash & veg
Stir fly with rice noodles
Poached chicken with egg/veg stir fried rice

If you can spare the pennies, try getting a halogen oven for the short term, as it works brilliantly, is relatively cheap to run and they can be not too expensive.

btw gluten free chicken goujons are the best, gluten free pasta is a little quicker to cook, normally, and we are coming up to salad weather (fingers crossed) which may help.

Chicken fried rice

I'm having this tonight - with bread, but you could skip that, have gf bread, or have some new potatoes in it.
www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1544/speedy-chorizo-with-chickpeas

Dirty rice:
pinchofnom.com/recipes/syn-free-cajun-dirty-rice-slimming-world/

This was very popular with my family.

What do you normally cook in an oven that you’re missing? Maybe someone can suggest how to adapt...

Risotto, salads with new potatoes, bolagnaise with jacket potatoes and cheese, gf pasta, rice noodles etc

Most gluten free pasta is pretty good these days so pasta isn't ruled out.

We are a gluten free household due to coeliac. Stove only dishes I make regularly:

Risotto
Burgers (use M&S buns or the schar hamburger buns)
Pork chops and mash potato
Omelette
Stroganoff
All the pasta dishes
Fry ups
Fried rice
Poached/ fried egg with ham and chips (could use potato waffles instead and do them in the toaster if you don't have a fryer).
Meatballs in tomato sauce with rice
Soup
Hotdogs (most of the cheap ones are gluten free) with beans or in GF buns
Sausage and mash

I invested in a deep fat fryer so do things like chips, GF scotch eggs, gluten free battered stuff in that too.

Chicken with wine and tarragon (variations included).

Brown chicken breasts/thighs (your preference).

Remove from pan.

Add some chopped spring onions and butter.

Then deglaze the pan with a glass of white wine (you can omit this and make up the volume with chicken stock).

Reduce to let the alcohol evaporate.

Then add a glass of chicken stock and 2 tsp of dried tarragon.

Put back the chicken, add a lid and simmer for 15 mins to cook the chicken through.

Finish the sauce with double cream (to taste) and season with salt and pepper. Reduce until the sauce thickens naturally to the consistency you like.

If you didn't use wine you might need a squeeze of lemon juice or a splash of white wine vinegar to cut through the richness.

Serve with a jacket potato, rice and veg of your choice (I love it with asparagus).

As a lovely twist you can replace the wine/chicken stock with fresh orange juice. I finish this version with either sour cream or crème fraîche and you won't need lemon juice or vinegar.

Both are lovely with some fresh chopped tarragon (or in place of the dried
Whilst cooking) as a garnish but that's optional and I tend to use dried as that what I have in the pantry.

On the hob Sunday Dinner.

In a deep frying pan with a lid, brown a pork tenderloin (you might need to cut it in half).

Really, get it brown - don't skip this bit.

Then add a bottle/can of cider and a glass of chicken stock (made with a cube is fine) and a tsp of sage.

Put on the lid and cook for 20 mins to cook the pork through.

In the meantime make up some gluten free paxo sage and onion stuffing mix.

Rather than make stuffing balls make flat patties of stuffing and cook then in a non stick frying pan with a tiny bit of butter.

Take out the pork to rest and finish the gravy by seasoning with salt/pepper and reducing by boiling rapidly. Add a few tablespoons of double cream.

Slice the pork, serve with the stuffing, mashed potatoes and other veg of your choice plus the cider gravy.