Being a poor graduating student, I have to be inventive with my food, which I love! Here the soy sauces play with each other and the peas add sweetness and the egg gives you the protein and the rice fills you up.
Fried rice for poor students, 1 person
chiliflakes
1 big bowl rice from yesterday
1 small bowl frozen green peas
pinch salt
1 egg
few dashes dark soy sauce
dash light soy sauce
Put boiling water over the peas taken straight from the freezer. Whip up the egg. Break up the rice with a spoon. Put oil in a hot pan, add some chiliflakes, add the rice, stir for a few minutes continuing to break up the rice. Add the peas and add some salt. Stir for a minute. Add the dark soy sauce, make sure all of the rice gets covered. Add the light soy sauce. Add the egg and stir until the egg is finished. Serve!
I love Beef Stroganov and when I was younger I loved Sausage Stroganov. The sausage version is typically made with a Swedish "sausage" called Falukorv, with an abnormal low meatcontent, it can't be called a sausage at all. It has a really mild flavour and is really cheap, but...ever since I saw green Falukorv at my school lunch at the canteen, I haven't eaten it until a few weeks ago when I bought a ready made Sausage Stroganov for lunch at work, and it tasted nice. But Falukorv...doesn't taste anything.
With chorizo and an optional dash of hot sauce, that's another story!
Chorizo Stroganov, 4 persons
1 chorizo sausage
1 onion
1 red bell pepper
1 can red kidney beans (225 g drained)
1 can chopped tomates (400 g)
3 tablespoons hot chili sauce
1 tablespoon ketchup, if needed
dash hot sauce
salt
3 tablespoons cream
Slice the chorizo, chop the onion and cut the bell pepper in smaller pieces. Drain the beans and rinse them with water, drain. Put olive oil in a hot pan. Add the chorizo and the onion. Fry for a few minutes. Add the bell pepper and fry until onion is brown. Add the beans and the chopped tomatoes. Add the hot chili sauce and cook for 5 minutes. Taste, if you need more sweetness, add the ketchup. Add the hot sauce.
Add the cream, let it boil for a minute, taste and add salt to your liking.
Serve with rice.
The sauce without the cream could be a base for a vegetable and bean stew, maybe with some chickpeas or lentils.
My freezer is getting emptier and emptier, because the move to Holland is moving closer and closer. With one of the chorizos I had in my freezer I made Chorizo Carbonara.
Chorizo Carbonara, 1 person
1 chorizo, sliced
1 clove garlic, pressed
1/3 red chili, chopped
1 teaspoon dried rosemary
1 egg
3 tablespoon cream
a squeeze of lemon
little grated parmesan
penne for one person
Boil the pasta. In the mean time, put olive oil in a hot pan, fry the chorizo until brown on a medium heat, add chili, fry it for a while, add rosemary and the garlic, watch out so it don't get burned. Take it off the heat if needed.
Whip the egg, mix with cream and add lemon. When the pasta is done, drain it, but safe some of the pasta water if the sauce gets dry. Add the pasta to the sausage mix, stir around, then add the cream and egg mixture, remove from the heat and stir until the pasta has a nice creamy coating on it, don't scramble the eggs! Add the parmesan and stir a bit more - then serve! Season with salt if necessary.
Back to Sweden. And vacation is over. Now back to the thesis. Also back to Swedish prices, so no more beef :( Since I don't work anymore, I can eat breakfast again and cook nice lunches.
This recipe takes about 5 minutes to make, you can serve it with some rice if you want to.
Scrambled eggs with tomatoes, 1 person
2 eggs
5 cherry tomatoes, halved
pinch salt
small spoon sugar
Whip the eggs. Put a wok on high heat, add a little of oil and scramble the eggs, add salt. Take the scramble out of the wok, clean the wok and put it on the heat again, add some oil and add the tomatoes, stir quickly, let the fluid boil for a little bit. Add the sugar and stir fry the tomatoes quickly. Add the eggs and let the scramble soke up the fluid. Serve immediately.
