Chicken gnocchi. So easy to make but quite impressive to taste and eat. Method takes 12 mins to prep and 40 mins cooking time in oven. Dry fry 2 chopped chicken breast. Strain off any fluid. In a baking dish empty a packet of gnocchi, chop up 2 peppers. I do one yellow and 1 red. Add to dish, add chicken, chop up a mozerella ball and add to dish, add 1 pot of red pesto and about 1/3 tube of tomato puree and a squeeze of garlic puree. Add a pint of chicken stock. I use 2 Oxo cubes in boiling water. Pour some double cream over top and a bit of grated parmesan. Put in oven 180 degrees for 40 minutes. Serve with a handful of green salad put of a bag.
As a variation you can swap red pesto for green pesto and swap red and yellow peppers for green peppers. Half amount of tomato puree. It becomes a different meal.
Pork steaks in cider casserole. Quick dry fry 4 pork steaks, chop an onion finely, peel 3 carrots and cut into pennies, chop up half a swede, add a pint of cider and a vegetable stock cubes. Add seasoning. Oven 180 degrees for 1 hour 10 mins. Serve with petit pois and mashed potatoes or you can peel and chop 2 potatoes and add to casserole with a bit more water.
Lasagne soup. Cook a packet of minced beef, strain of any fat, add a tin of chopped tomatoes, 1/3 of a tube of tomato puree, a beef stock cubes in 1/2 pint of water. Add a chopped mozerella ball and generous grated parmesan, add 120g of double cream, break up lasagne sheets and stir in. Simmer until lasagne pieces are soft. Serve with garlic bread or a part baked bread roll. Sprinkle with parmesan.
All of these dishes are so easy to make but the finished meals are delicious and people think it must have taken ages.
My DS can cook all of these meals and his friends are impressed.