What's your inexpensive Sunday Roast?

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Today we are having a pork loin seasoned with herbs, slow-cooked on a bed of veg (which we'll use to make a gravy). Served with boulangere potatoes, peas and glazed carrots.

Pork was on offer at £3.50 a kilo; the whole joint cost £6.00, and there will be enough left for another meal.

The veg / stock / flour / seasonings cost less than £3.00.

Four adults fed for less than £2.00 per portion.

What are your inexpensive roasts?

Can you share your nut roast recipe please?? Sounds great if it beats MIL’s!!!

Pork loin fillet for us- £4.42 from Lidl. Enough for the 5 of us; rolled in herbs then into a roasting tin with mini potatoes, chunks of sweet potato, leeks, onion, cherry tomatoes, slices of peppers, courgettes and a bit of olive oil. Cook for 30 minutes covered with foil then 30 minutes uncovered. Served with yorkshire puddings, broccoli, carrots and gravy. Easy, quick, cheap, yummy.

If we have a roast, we only ever buy higher welfare meat (ie with a recognised higher-welfare certification). We’d rather eat less meat, or not eat it at all, than buy cheap meat produced at the expense of animal welfare.

So it’s a bit more expensive but all the veg is cheap as chips, so it’s an inexpensive meal overall with lots of leftovers

your opinion but that’s a little rude

lol I buy fresh chickens from my local butcher’s and I cut them into 4 !

We eat lots of meat every day, I even cook fresh meat from the butcher for sandwiches for my husband

my favourite meat is lamb and I only eat green veg!

I've made versions if this, and served with a homemade tomato/garlic sauce before. It's delicious.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DR_0U-xjBmo/?srtk=cGdqMjBwYTV4OGF0

Good job you're not eating it, then, isn't it! 👍 🙂

I love leftover chicken and gammon pie

Maggi is good for this as well, we find.

Some high schools are on holidays in Scotland - just saying...

Toad in the hole for me. The only joint I really like is beef and it’s too expensive

Let's see a photo of yours?

Will do - it's from a student cookbook, so really simple.

From memory, it is chopped mixed nuts, grated carrot, chopped onion, bread crumbs, thyme, stock and butter.

Either bake it in a loaf tin, or sometimes I usebit in a tart. Layer of short crust pastry, dollop of homemade chutney, topping of the nutroast mix. Bake for 20 mins.

I'll find the exact recipe tomorrow- I've made it for years, so tend to throw it all together without weighing. It isn't fussy, and relies on the natural flavors of the nuts, which is what I think DH prefers to his Mums.

I’m with you on the custard but I don’t like masses of gravy as it tends to go cold.

@WearyAuldWumman
That's why I now use blates
You should try them sometime
They're brilliant.

Not quite a roast but I bought a pack of drumsticks today £2.15 1kg. Roasted those, and took all the meat off which there was surprisingly a lot of. Made a ‘marry me’ orzo. I’ll do a stock with the bones tomorrow and use the rest of the shredded chicken for a soup.

An easy roast for us is a chicken breast stuffed with stuffing and wrapped in bacon, with roast potatoes and vegetables, and probably a Yorkshire. Tons of gravy.

We had cherries from the freezer and a tin of custard because we've got a cold.

Had to Google!

Have you tried Nigellas pea chicken bake?

There’s some serious physics going on there. It is to die for!

https://www.nigella.com/recipes/chicken-and-pea-traybake

😂😂😂😂

We do all the usual roast dinner veg and puddings, but the meat is gammon slow cooked in cola. Cheap, particulary useful leftovers, goes down well with the picky eaters.

We've got one who won't eat chicken, two won't eat lamb...

Why don’t you show us some photos of your culinary masterpieces, then? If not, then please go away.

@placematsI certainly wouldn’t be taking culinary criticism from someone who doesn’t know they’re called BOULANGERE potatoes.

Chicken thighs, mixed frozen veg, roast potatoes and Yorkshire puddings. No effort at all. Unbelievably delicious.

@WeMeetInFairIthilien try this Jamie Oliver one using veg stock cubes instead of beef ones ?
For the onion gravy:
4 medium red onions, peeled & finely sliced
5 tbsp balsamic or red wine vinegar
2 beef or chicken stock cubes (or concentrated veg stock)
Olive oil

1. Fry onions really slowly, in a little oil, covered for about 15 mins until soft.
2. Remove lid, turn the heat up and as soon as onions become golden brown, pour in vinegar and boil until it almost disappears.
3. Turn heat down, add rest of butter, crumble in stock cubes or concentrated stock pod and 2+1/2 cups of water and stir well. Simmer until nice gravy consistency.