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Your fav meal from scratch in under 5 mins
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Hotelier
04-09-2014
What is your fav meal(not snack), that takes less than 5 mins to prepare?
Mine is Uncle Bens pre cooked rice and a couple of smoked salted kippers(Boil in the bag type). Microwave.. 3 mins for the kippers, put the rice in after 1 1/2 mins, take the skin off the kippers(optional), 1 min, mix together with seasoning of your choice.
Yummy
Not sure what you call it, Paella?..Kedgeree?
gds1972
04-09-2014
Omelette with Sweetcorn & onions plus some peas on the side.
Luner13
04-09-2014
I have a few

Beans on Toast (Beans cooked in microwave for 3 minutes then put on hot buttered toast)
Batchelors Chicken Supernoodles with chopped up Matthesons Smoked Sausage mixed in (Made in microwave for 5 minutes)
Scrambled Egg with cheese on toast (I usually make this on the hob not mic as I feel it tastes better and I have more control on its texture)
degsyhufc
05-09-2014
Depends on how strict you're being on the five minutes.

There are obvious meals.
Sandwiches. A nice ham salad or cheese & pickle. Tuna & cucumber.
Bacon butty can be done in 5 minutes.
Cheese toastie - will need an extra 5 minutes for the toastie maker to heat.
Tinned soup (or fresh soup in the fridge). A couple of minutes in the microwave.
Dried noodles. 3 minutes in microwave or on hob.
Chips - with curry sauce, gravy or salad. Will need an extra 5 minutes for the fryer to heat up.


Ready meals?

Chicago Town mini pizzas. 3 minutes in the microwave.
benjammin316
05-09-2014
Wheatabix, cut in half, covered with butter and sprinkled on sugar.
China Girl
05-09-2014
Cheese on toast with tinned tomatoes poured over, and lots of pepper on.
chopsim
06-09-2014
Originally Posted by Hotelier:
“What is your fav meal(not snack), that takes less than 5 mins to prepare?
Mine is Uncle Bens pre cooked rice and a couple of smoked salted kippers(Boil in the bag type). Microwave.. 3 mins for the kippers, put the rice in after 1 1/2 mins, take the skin off the kippers(optional), 1 min, mix together with seasoning of your choice.
Yummy
Not sure what you call it, Paella?..Kedgeree?”

I love both of those but have never thought to mix them together. I will be trying that for breakfast tomorrow. Thanks.
edit: how do you stop your micro from stinking afterwards?
Last edited by chopsim : 06-09-2014 at 12:17
burton07
06-09-2014
Bowl of muesli with soya milk.
LostFool
06-09-2014
Usually some instant noodles enhanced with some extra veg and/or meat leftovers and chilli sauce
indianwells
06-09-2014
Curried beans on toast with a poached egg.
Orangemaid
11-09-2014
ham cheese and tomato on a half cut baguette and grilled until cheese melted on top
Teddybleads
11-09-2014
Sole Meunière takes about five minutes.
Shrike
11-09-2014
Originally Posted by Hotelier:
“...Not sure what you call it, Paella?..Kedgeree?”

I'd say kedgeree, though that usually has egg in too.

For a five minute meal I'd say an omelet or cheese on toast or a good ol' fashioned fryup!
Daisy Bennyboots
11-09-2014
Mix up a tin of tuna with a tablespoon of mayo - spread on buttered toast...then finely crumble up a bag of plain crisps and sprinkle the flakes over the tuna mayo toast.

Yum!
PERILLA
11-09-2014
Originally Posted by Teddybleads:
“Sole Meunière takes about five minutes.”

You're so posh - I was going to say open a tin of soup
Teddybleads
11-09-2014
Originally Posted by PERILLA:
“You're so posh - I was going to say open a tin of soup ”

I'm so not, it's just my latest food obsession. I scour the fish aisle for when it's marked down. I'm doing it tonight if mrs. Bleads ever comes home.

Try it, it's really easy, really quick and seriously delicious.
Orangemaid
11-09-2014
i just ate two rounds of hot buttered toast in the toaster, now that's under 5 mins
Menk
15-09-2014
Originally Posted by Orangemaid:
“i just ate two rounds of hot buttered toast in the toaster, now that's under 5 mins ”

But how long did it take you to get out again?
davelovesleeds
15-09-2014
Open my front door, walk the three minutes to the chip shop, ask for Fish and Chips to eat now, pay, leave shop and start eating.

Jobs a good un.
cbe21ok
15-09-2014
Originally Posted by davelovesleeds:
“Open my front door, walk the three minutes to the chip shop, ask for Fish and Chips to eat now, pay, leave shop and start eating.

Jobs a good un.”

I have often wondered how cool it would be to live so close to a decent chippy.

In answer to the OP i would vote for cheese on toast.
smudges dad
15-09-2014
Omelette - quick and nutritious
davor
15-09-2014
Crepes with various fillings.
Espresso
15-09-2014
Originally Posted by Menk:
“But how long did it take you to get out again?”

That made me laugh.
Nice one, you.

I get very industrious every now and again and freeze slithers of garlic and ginger and chilli on separeate baking trays, then bag them up, separately.

Then I can make my favourite Thai-inspired fish and noodle soup in less than five minutes. but if you have those things from fresh, it's the peeling that takes the time, really. So even if you're starting from absolute scratch, it probably takes ten minutes, tops from starting to scoffing.

A splash of fish sauce, some boiling water, whole stalk of lemon grass - bashed a bit - squirt of lemon juice and a splash of soy sauce all in a pan on the heat.
Add some of the aforementioned frozen slithers of garlic, chilli and ginger.
Chop up some pak choi and chuck it in.
Add a packet of those straight to wok noodles
Slice up some salmon and put that on top of the noodles.
Put a lid on the pan so as the steam cooks the fish.
Get a bowl out of the cupboard.
Turn the heat off.
Pour soup into bowl. Chuck a few chopped coriander leaves and stalks on top.
Eat your dinner and fish out the lemongrass when you come across it.

It's the quickest cooked dinner you can imagine. Totally delicious and altogether excellent and healthy.
Probably no good if you don't like Thai flavours, mind.
Or fish.
PERILLA
15-09-2014
Originally Posted by davelovesleeds:
“Open my front door, walk the three minutes to the chip shop, ask for Fish and Chips to eat now, pay, leave shop and start eating.

Jobs a good un.”

Love it
Straker
19-09-2014
Originally Posted by LostFool:
“Usually some instant noodles enhanced with some extra veg and/or meat leftovers and chilli sauce”

Prefer the fresh noodles with fried button mushrooms, chopped up omelette and Frank`s Chili and Lime hot sauce.
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