Cook Once/Eat Twice

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Any suggestions for meals where I can cook once/eat twice?
Not necessarily making extra to freeze but meals which can 'share' ingredients.
Only things I have on my list so far are:

Roast chicken dinner one night/leftover chicken in an easy veg stir fry the next night
Fry off lots of mince - use half for shepherds pie and half for lasagne

Any more? Hope it'll save time in the kitchen and money too 😀

Any roast can work like that, as long as you have a big enough piece of meat to start with.

Roast lamb, beef or pork can become curry the next night, for example.

Rissoles was a way that they used to use up leftover roast meats 'in the old days'!

Curry is a good one, I'll pop that on the list now! Thanks 😊

Something else I used to do when my DC were taking packed lunches - make a bolognese or chilli, and then make pasties the next day with what's left over (using shop-bought pastry of course!)

Cook twice as much rice as needed. Serve once with curry/chilli/whatever, then fast chill the rest and use next day as basis for egg fried rice, adding veg and/or prawns.

Risotto - serve as ordinary risotto one night, then make risotto cakes with the rest (chilled risotto, patted into cakes with a wee knob of mozarella in the centre, dipped in egg and breadcrumbs and then fried or baked till cooked through).

Tomato and veggie sauce for pasta - over pasta one night, use as a pizza base topping on another (with extras), then as a basis for a spag bol the next.

Pesto - with pasta, olives and capers one night. Remains of jar used on a pizza base for extra savoury kick before the tomato sauce. Or mix leftover pesto with a little philly and spread over chicken breasts. Bake in oven (on baking parchment folded up to make a container for the sauce that will form as it melts.

Daal. Let leftovers cool, then make into cakes or burger patties and coat in egg and crumbs before frying. If your daal is a bit crumbly, add an egg and some flour before you make it into the burgers.

Minced meat can be used in bolognese sauce, chilli con carne, cottage pie or even doner kebab
Leftover veg - bubble and squeak
Leftover cooked fish - fish salad
Leftover chicken - make a vegetable stew and just add the chicken at the end - chicken works great in barley soup too.
Roast lamb leftovers can be used to make pulled lamb sandwich - add pomegranate glaze for extra twist

Recipes with cooked chicken:
Spanish chicken pie www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/9974/spanish-chicken-pie
Risotto www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/chicken-mushroom-risotto
Enchiladas www.deliciousmagazine.co.uk/recipes/chicken-enchiladas/
Fried rice www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/chicken-sweetcorn-egg-fried-rice

Recipes for cooked pork
Risotto realfood.tesco.com/recipes/pork-risotto-with-courgette-ribbons.html
Stir fry recipes.sainsburys.co.uk/recipes/main-courses/pork-and-ginger-noodles-with-broccoli
Stew recipes.sainsburys.co.uk/recipes/main-courses/spiced-pork-stew
Pasta realfood.tesco.com/recipes/creamy-pork-and-spinach-tagliatelle.html

Recipes with cooked lamb
Pilaf recipes.sainsburys.co.uk/recipes/main-courses/lamb-and-chickpea-pilaf
Tagine realfood.tesco.com/recipes/lamb-tagine-with-lemon-couscous.html

Use spare bolognese in this curry www.eatsamazing.co.uk/family-friendly-recipes/family-friendly-meals/leftovers-bolognese-curry-recipe

When we have sausage and mash, I make extra mash for pie toppings and fish cakes.

Roast chicken day 1, then use leftover cooked chicken to make an easy chicken and bacon risotto - just fry some leeks and bacon, add risotto rice and fry until it goes semi translucent, start slowly adding chicken stock and stirring until it's absorbed each time, throw chicken and Parmesan in when the rice is done.

Roast pork day 1 then use leftover roast pork to do pork fried rice (one of my DHs favourites!)

Using leftover potatoes and veg from Sunday lunch to make bubble and squeak patties, lovely with baked beans for a quick tea.

Leftover roast beef stir fried with paprika garlic, peppers and onions and served in fajita wraps or tacos.

For leftover gammon reheat slices in a fry frying pan and serve with boiled potatoes and fried egg/pineapple.

We’ve started doing this on most Mon/Tues. Cooking a big batch of something and then having leftovers for at least one other day.

So far we’ve done:
Cottage pie
Lasagne
Chicken and leek filo pie
Bobotie
Chicken enchiladas

Previously we’ve also done a roast on Sunday with leftover Monday.

Chicken - stir fry, fajitas, wraps and salad with various sauces, pie
Gammon - with egg and chips
Beef - same as chicken with stir fry, tacos, pie etc
Lamb - lamb and apricot tagine with cous cous

Roast pork is good chopped up into small (3mm) dice and fried hard in garlic, chilli, ginger and soy. Add some veg (peppers, mange tout, edamame) and serve with rice

Roasted veg are really versatile, I often roast a big tray of peppers, onions, courgettes, mushrooms, garlic etc use some with chopped tomatoes and herbs or with eggs for a fritata and the rest to top a puff pastry tart with mozerella.
If making Yorkshire puds for a roast, double up your batter for toad in the hole.
Double up mash to combine with herbs and fish for fish cakes.

Could you roast 2 meats at the same time & get a week's worth of dinners?
So, do a chicken + a ham, then have ham, chips & egg the day after the roast dinner.

Leftover chicken with rice, chopped apple, mayo & mango chutney

Leftover ham made into ham-cakes

Chicken, noodle & sweet corn soup

Pea & ham risotto

Jamie oliver does left over chicken, lettuce to wrap with mango, crews and housin sauce.

Egg fried rice? Not sure if it's been mentioned?

Dice up leftover veg, garlic, add leftover meat too to pan too. Cook five mins. Add leftover rice. Heat through. Add soy sauce to taste.

I usually do an omelette in the pan beforehand--set to side whilst cooking the veg, rice etc, then slice finely and add to the finished rice.

This weekend I made :

Mulligawty soup
Chicken, squash, coconut curry
Quiche
Chilli
Roasted squash and cauliflower

We'll have the chilli with the roast veg one-night, then made into chilli wraps another night.

Chicken curry was served with jps, we'll have the rest with rice this week