Chicken curry.

This is a sister dish using the meat trimmed from the chicken thighs originally used to make chicken ribs. You are basically making a starter with them and a curry for mains. This dish is sort of like a rogan josh in that it is very tomatoey but it carries all the flavour from the spices into the vegetables and is very warming. Delicious over rice or chips.

Ingredients:

Meat from 2 chicken thighs (£0.86p)

1/2 an aubergine (£0.37p)

1/2 a broccoli (£0.26p)

1/2 a pack of mangetout (£0.25p)

1 carrot (£0.05p)

5 spring onion stalks (£0.40p)

1 yellow pepper (£0.32p)

6 cherry tomatoes (£0.16p)

1 box passata (£0.40p)

1/2 tin plum tomatoes (£0.20p)

1 tbsp tomato puree (£0.03p)

3 tsp tandoori spice blend (£0.03p)

1 chicken stock pot (£0.25p)

1 tsp garlic granules (£0.06p)

1 tsp onion granules (£0.06p)

1/2 tsp black pepper (£0.11p)

1 tsp paprika (£0.06p)

1 tsp fine sea salt (£0.01p)

5 medium potatoes (£0.62p)

1 tsp extra virgin olive oil (£0.03p)

Direction:

Chop all your veg to your preferred chunkiness and add to slow cooker.

Dice chicken meat to make to your own size preference add to slow cooker.

Add the passatta, tinned tomatoes and tomato puree along with spices and stock pot.

Cook on high for 4-5hrs.

When almost completely cooked, peel and chop potatoes.

add to air fryer and put olive oil in with this, cook until golden and crisp (usually 20mins)

serve and enjoy.

The total cost for this meal works out at £4.81p for two people making it approx £2.40p per person. And if you include the chicken ribs we made using the same chicken thighs for this curry then your total cost for both would be £5.09p making it £2.55p per person but you are getting a mini appetiser and a filling main.

Of course you can upscale this recipe and use more chicken thighs, this would result in more chicken ribs and a meatier dish, however to keep costs down and portion sizes reasonable i have bulked this meal out with plenty of vegetables.

All costs vary per supermarket and this is a rough price guide as to how i made this meal.