2 chicken breast in a curry for

[Ooff]

3 adults. 1 teens. 1 child.

I've a 4 pack of chicken.

I need something for tea tomorrow so I've had to just cut up 2 breasts small and put extra veg in (peppers and onion)

Anyone else having to do shite like this

Got rice and naan though so we're all good.

Just baffles me how expensive meat is now

One Turkey drumstick is cheaper and will feed loads. Chicken fillets are a ruddy fortune!

Read it again.

'Extra veg'

So more MORE pepper and onion in than I would usually put in.

3 breasts only feeds 2 portions( one normal one slightly more hungry one) even packed out with veg.
We use thighs usually but probably have 2/3 each to make a decent meal.
It's all relative though isn't it.
We don't have puddings/ biscuits/ crips or those fancy coffees with loads of cream and choose to use our calories on good protein rich foods.
I would eat much less meat and more veg if it were just me but it's so Hard to find a meal the whole house will eat.

Buy thighs the next time if you need boneless for a curry. Or buy an extra large chicken and joint it up it's not as hard as you would think.

I usually have tins of chickpeas in and bulk out chicken curry this way.

My tip is to simmer the chickpeas in water before adding them, this way they are yielding and creamy rather than slightly crunchy.

I also do a daal as others have suggested.

Another quick cheap side dish is a tin of potatoes. Rinsed and tossed with onions, garlic and curry powder then roasted in the oven/ air frier. Cross between Bombay potato and roast potato. These go down well.

My 'I will only eat pure chicken curry' brigade now devour the extras.

Meat has become really expensive, but I don't think it's a bad thing to be eating less meat and more veg. I wouldn't class your example as "shite" though, a pack of two chicken breasts is what I'd use for a curry for the four of us, especially bulked out with lentils/chickpeas/cauliflower/cubed potato and served with rice and naan.

It depends what you're used to though and if this isn't what you're used to it's going to feel like a hard change. For animal welfare reasons though we should all be eating less, but higher quality meat.

We’ve started bulking curry up with lentils or chickpeas to make the meat go further.

This ^^^^ x1000! Meat should be a luxury served with plenty of veg. We are also having a curry tonight, I've added two onions 66p, half a courgette 20p, half an egg plant 40p, a pepper 50p, some spring greens about 5p, carrots 3p, and sweetcorn 5p to a tin of chopped tomatoes 32p. Spice and herbs are what 10p and rice at what 4p. It's made 6 good portions so 2.36/6=40p a portion. Could add some black beans at 70p for more protein making it 51p a portion.

You find it funny that people find meat expensive? Or that they find curries an easy way to get their children to eat more veg?

I would have personally used all of them in this meal and had something cheaper for tomorrows meal or did a veggie version this meal and had the chicken tomorrow.

My last online tesco shop it was cheaper per kg to buy breast than buy thigh (fillets). Thighs with skin and bone are still cheap, but not as quick and easy to make a curry with (plus you need twice as much as half the weight is bone and skin!).

I add frozen spinach and frozen cauliflower and use thighs. Their price has increased but a third less cost that breasts.

Chickpea is so great. I started using them instead of meat not because meat is expensive but because I really wanted to use less meat, even though I can't give up meat entirely because of my family's nutritional need. Sometimes I use half and half, half meat half peas.

I've been doing vegan/veg dinner at least once a week now. Tonight I made chickpea meatballs with hash browns and fried cauli. It was lovely.
I regularly make chickpea South Asian curry. And no one complains the lack of meat.

Use chickpeas, lentils, vegetables! So much healthier.

Or use chicken thighs. It’s curry!

Do you have any potatoes in? A traditional Bengali chicken curry has them in. About half a new potato sized, part boiled before you add them.

My DS is the opposite. He will eat a vegetable curry but will ask where the chicken is about half way through, he's not keen on it. He's always been like that, when we were struggling I'd split a kilo pack of thigh fillets four ways and freeze. I'd then use 250g in a big pot of curry that would feed us both for four nights. Called it '(find the) chicken curry' but he preferred that to chicken one week and vegetable the next.

Morrison's chicken breasts range between £9.60 and £6.25
Thighs are £7.48 (boneless) to £3.04 per kilo (how fecking cheap?)

@Ooff I did read the OP, sounds a rather soulless curry.
My standard would be
a meat or fish curry
plus
a beany vegetable curry (you can use mushy peas)
a veg curry
dal
rice, naan or other flat bread
plus raita
cooking for 6 plus add
pakora and another veg side dish.

Curry night is an excuse for great tasting, healthy and cheap food. I may have been deeply influenced by my Bangladeshi neighbours.

I use 2 chicken breasts for 2 adults, 1 teen and 1 pre teen. But we have halal chicken. It's about a fiver for 5 frozen breasts in Asda.

Yes OP we do the same. I bulk it out more with lentils or chickpeas or random veg in the fridge/freezer.

We also have a lot of meat free meals/basic 'boring' meals too, like vegetable stew with dumplings, jacket potato with baked beans, scrambled egg on toast, vegetable pasta bake. Ds complains that our meals aren't as exciting but unfortunately he has to learn that as long as we're fed and it's nutritious it will have to do- we can't always have the kind of meals that we used to have.

I really a veggie curry now. Anyone got an easy recipe ?

Add tinned potatoes to your shopping list. Very cheap and bulk out a curry/stew.

Did you consider beefing this up with beef ?

I wouldn't recommend tinned potatoes. It tastes horrible. And raw potatoes are cheap enough. Just why?

I'd add in a can of chick peas, sweet potato, spuds and cauliflower.
We consciously reduced our meat intake prior to the price increases, most meals are bulked out with, chickpeas, beans or lentils. Great for fibre and protein.

Some inexpensive side dishes would be saag aloo or aloo gobi. Dahl is also a nice. I think I’d use chicken breasts for skewers with grilled veg. You can marinate the chicken breasts to make it more tender. It would go great with some naan and some kachumber salad or some cucumber raita.