What are your best 3/4/5 ingredient recipes?

[candleshoe]

My current favourite is:

350g pkt. spaghetti (cooked as on pkt.)
12 rashers of steaky smoked bacon (diced and fried till brown)
150g pine nuts (dry fried in non-stick pan till golden)
190g jar of sun-dried tomato pesto

When pasta is ready stir in tomato pesto, toasted pine nuts and fried bacon and serve!!

Yum

I sometimes add cougettes too (2/3 of them cut into julienne strips/matchsticks and boiled for 3 mins in with spaghetti)

Sausage (chopped into small pieces)
Chopped onions
Two tins chopped tomatoes.

Put sausages and onions in an ovenproof dish pour over toms and put in oven for an hour.

Bacon
Pasta
Cream
Onion
Garlic
Mushrooms

Boil pasta and chop everything else up and fry in pan.
Pour cream into frying pan when bacon/onion/mushrooms are cooked and cook for 5 mins more.
Drain pasta and pour cream mixture into pasta and serve.

Sounds yummy comewhinewithme

Cheese and Herb pate is good too:

150g butter melted and cooled
450g philidelphia/cream cheese
3 cloves garlic crushed
1tbsp finely chopped flat leaf parsley
2tbsp finely chopped chives

Mix cheese, crushed garlic, parsley and chives together.
Fold the melted butter into the cream cheese mixture. (Carefully or it could curdle)
Transfer to a loaf tin/serving dish and put in fridge to chill.

Serve with salad leaves and melba toast as a starter.

Spaghetti
Salmon
Creme Fraiche
Lemon juice

Hi Tilly, smoked or fresh salmon?

Bacon
Sausage
Egg
Beans

Similar to CWWM - sausages and tinned tomatoes poured over pasta. Cook pasta with half a vegetable or chicken stock cube in the water. Yum.

mascapone, double cream, chocolate, Crunchie bars make the best pudding ever.

Recipe here

On a slightly healthier note - pasta, pesto, soft cheese and peas is a quick tasty dinner.

nom nom nom

Puttanesca

Onion
Anchovies
Olives
Capers
Tomatoes
Pasta

Chicken foo yong

Chicken
Onion
Egg
Soy Sauce
5 spice

Easy Chicken Nuggets:

2 chicken breasts cut into bite-size pieces
130g (1 cup) breadcrumbs or Ritz cracker crumbs
130g (half a cup) mayonaise
1 tbsp melted butter/oil

preheat oven to 180 C
coat chicken with mayo and roll in crumbs
lay on lined baking tray
drizzle with butter/oil
bake for 20 mins

I also like cheese, pickle, bread, butter

Chicken fried rice (kind of...)

Chicken fillet
Mushrooms
Eggs
Rice

Dry fry the chicken fillet and the mushrooms, scramble a couple of eggs, stir into some rice, add some soy and black pepper

Et voila.

3 beaten eggs.
Double Cream. (about 1/2 the volume of the eggs)
Large handful of grated cheese.
Pasta.
Chopped bacon.
Half glass of whute wine.

Cook pasta.
Fry bacon till crispy (you can add garlic if you like). When cooked pour wine into frying pan so it bubbles. Let it simmer while you drain pasta.
Put pasta back in saucepan, and add egg/cheese/cream mixture to the hot pasta, stirring well (off the heat).
Tip the simmering wine/bacon mixture onto the pasta, again stirring well.

Absolutely delicious.

candleshoe - fresh salmon but I don't see why smoked wouldn't work

Did you get my FB msg, Til?

I've been trying out these kinds of recipes recently. Here are 2 that have really worked. Much less boring than they sound.

Beef, garlic, tomatoes
Put beef for braising in an ovenproof dish with a couple of boxes of passata or tins of tomatoes wizzed in processor
Add a whole head of garlic, cloves broken up but not peeled. Salt and pepper.
Cover and cook in oven for about 3 hrs. Doesn't taste like tomato sauce at all, much richer.

Pork braised in milk - pork, oil, milk
Brown pork loin roast - fatty type - in oil. Add milk and leave to cook for about 3 hrs. You intermittently add more milk during cooking. Milk turns into thick nutty brown sauce and tastes of caramel. Tastes delicious.

Just found another in a book called 4 ingredient recipes:
Rice
Water!!!

Now I don't call that a recipe! Bloomin' cheek!
Think I should return to the shop and demand my money back!

Sausages, potatoes (for mash), two or three kinds of vegetables, gravy.

There aren't many appetising meals I can think of that involve fewer than 5 ingredients, sorry.

Fave cupboard meal:

Tinned salmon
Pesto
Pasta

Steam some veg above the pasta, and you can be tin opener to table in ten minutes.

In the summer I rinse the pasta with cold water and use tzatziki instead of pesto. It's fab.

My 'total emergency' cupboard dinner for my kids is a combination of 3 tins:

Sounds disgusting but they love it! And I think cos it has veg+beans+meat it might even be quite healthy for them!

One tin corned beef, one tin of ratatouille, one tin of baked beans!

Chop corned beef and stir up with other ingredients in a pyrex dish with a lid. Full power in microwave for 4 mins - stir and cook for another 2 mins. Or warm on the hob.

Serves three hungry kids!

onion
garlic
mushrooms
thyme
cream

cooked up and served over pasta. You can embellish with white wine, seasoning and parmesan but then that's more like 8 or 9 ingredients!

This is a smitten kitchen classic...

tin of tomatoes, an onion halved, large knob of butter, just cooked it all up, take out onion then serve over pasta.

Never tried it but is apparently amazing [yet to be convinced emoticon]

Chorizo
Tinned tomatoes
Onions
White beans
(Optional: garlic, smoked paprika, parsley)

theristheball - that sounds yummy!