Cheap Dinner Recipes
Posted by brigidscauldron on September 26, 2008
What kind of frugal, cheap living blog would this be without some good CHEAP dinner recipes. I hope to add a couple of recipes each day to give a variety and help you out some quick frugal meal ideas. So here are two that I will be using this weekend:
Quick Beef And Rice
This one is real easy and cheap
1 pound of ground beef or turkey
2 cups of rice
1 package of onion soup mix (Generic)
4 cups of water
1 15ounce can of Cream Of Mushroom Soup ( Generic)
In a skillet, brown the ground meat and drain. Add the onion soup mix, water, rice, and cream of mushroom soup and bring to a boil. Cover and simmer for 20 minutes until the rice is done.
PORK CHOPS AND COUNTRY CREAM GRAVY
1/4 cup flour
1/4 tsp of salt, pepper, sage, thyme, and marjoram
4 pork chops about 3/4″ thick (if you use thin chops shorten your cook time accordingly)
1 tbsp butter
1 1/2 cups of milk
Mix all the dry ingredients into a shallow dish or bowl. Melt the butter in a large skillet over medium heat. Dredge both sides of the pork chops in the flour mixture. Save whatever is left of the flour mixture because you will use it to make the gravy later.
Brown the pork chops about 2 – 3 minutes on each side, then reduce the heat and cook another 5-6 minutes on each side. (Remember if you use thin chops reduce your cook time by half). Remove the chops from the pan and keep them warm.
Combine the leftover flour mix with the milk and whisk together, then add to the pan. Cook on medium high, stirring frquently, until it comes to a boil. Reduce the heat to low and simmer for about 2 minutes or until thickened.
Spoon gravy over chops. A good cheap side dish for this would be instant mashed potato, again use the gravy in the potatos…yum!
So there you have it. Two great cheap dinner recipes to try this weekend or anytime.
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