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Quick Recipe Easy Stir Fry Noodles with Chicken and Vegetables

Portions: 2

Ingredients

1 Packet of cooked Egg Noodles
1 sliced onion
1/2 dozen sliced onions
Stir Fry Sauce
Mixed Vegetables
1 Chicken Breast (sliced in to bitesize pieces)
Soy Sauce
Groundnut Oil
MSG if you like it!

Equipment

Knife
Chopping Board
Wok

Instructions

Add some groundnut oil to your wok and put on a very hight heat
Add the chicken and keep it moving around the wok
Bung in the sliced onion and keep stirring!
Add the mushrooms and continue to stir...
When the mushrooms have started to soften, add a little bit of your Stir Fry Sauce and yes you've got it - keep on stirring!
Add a sprinkling of MSG for that added flavour boost and then add the pre-cooked egg noodles
Add the rest of the sauce and keep on stirring!
When the noodles are nice and hot add some vegetables of your choosing - I had a bag of microwave in the bag veg which is basically frozen cooked vegetables so I just added a bag of those containing peas, broccoli and sliced green beans
Keep on stirring until it's piping hot
Have a sneaky taste and add extra soy sauce if it needs a little boost
Serve and enjoy!

Serving Suggestion(s)

Microwaving Ginsters Butter Chicken Pocket

Time to try one of these bad boys in the microwave...

I don't have access to an oven or air fryer at work so heating up the Ginsters Butter Chicken Pocket in the microwave is my only option.

Obviously the pastry isn't crisp like you'd get if it was cooked/heated up in an oven, but it was comparable to other pastry items that I've had heated up in a microwave.

It was actually quite nice heated up but I have to say when I next get one I'll be eating it cold as I enjoyed the cold one I had the other day more.

Ginsters Butter Chicken Pocket Review

Cost at time of review: Part of a £3.60 (Clubcard Price) Meal Deal
Purchased From: TESCO

Who doesn't love a bargain? Supermarket chilled lunch meal deals are estimated to be loved/purchased by over 7million people each day! Tesco has one of (if not the) largest choices of options of the lunchtime meal deal consisting of a sandwich (or wrap, or pasta salad or sushi or other items), a snack and a drink.

One of the 'snacks' I chose to try today was the Ginsters Butter Chicken Pocket...

After my first bite my initial reaction was "where's the filling?!" If you look closely you can just about see it here:

Hang on a minute, lets see if we can see it with the flash on...

There it is!

These are NOT the same size as a normal Ginsters products, they're clearly designed to be part of the lunchtime meal deal and I tell you what, they actually taste really, really tasty. I ate mine cold but you can heat it up in the oven, air fryer or microwave.

Despite my initial reaction regarding the apparent lack of filling, it was very tasty and I would definitely have one again so I'm giving the Ginsters Butter Chicken Pocket a well deserved 4 stars!

Tesco - Ginsters Butter Chicken Pocket

https://www.ginsters.co.uk/

Pressure Cooked Frozen Chicken Legs and Veg with Onion Gravy in a NinjaFoodi

Portions: 2

Ingredients

2 Chicken Legs
Carrots & Other Veg (I'm using mushrooms and mini corn cobs)
Asparagus
Butter
Garlic
Small Onion (finely chopped)
500ml of hot water
Gravy Granules

Equipment

Electric Pressure Cooker (I'm using a Ninja Foodi)
Small pan for the gravy
Frying Pan
Wooden Spoon
Sieve

Instructions

Mix to small teaspoons of Chicken Gravy Granules in to 500ml of water and pour in to your pressure cooker bowl
Place your (Frozen) Chicken Legs in to the pressure cooker
Set the Temperature to High and the Time to 15 minutes
Prepare whatever vegetables you fancy for you meal
If you're having some Asparagus then wait until there is 5 minutes cooking time left and then add the butter, garlic and Asparagus to the frying pan and start to cook it
When the time is up on the pressure cooker, stop the cooking and release the steam!
Remove the chicken breasts from the Pressure Cooker and put to one side
Add your vegetables to the Pressure Cooker
Either add the Chicken Legs back in to the Pressure Cooker to finsish them off or if like me you like the skin crispy, wrap them in tin foil to keep them warm and then crisp them up in the air fryer function.
Set the Pressure Cooker temperature to High and set the Time for 3-4 minutes (depending on how soft you like your veggies)
When the time is up, release the steam! Then strain the vegetables over a saucepan.
Keep the veggies that you have just strained warm (I put them in a dish/bowl with a bit of tin foil on the top)
Add the chopped onion to the saucepan and heat up to a gentle simmer
The onions will slowly start to soften. Check the consistency of the gravy and add more Gravy Granules until it is at the thickness you prefer
When the onions have softened and the gravy is nice and thick, you are ready to dish up!
Serve and enjoy!

Serving Suggestion(s)

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Lidl Mcennedy American Football Wings and Rings Box Review

Cost at time of review: £3.99 Purchased From: LIDL
I picked these up the other day and couldn't wait to try them out!

I'm still not sure what the non-breaded chicken wings were marinaded in but whatever it is, it was delicious!
Crunchy on the outside and moist on the inside, both the un-breaded and breaded chicken wings were delicious and even the onion rings weren't too bad.

I didn't have any oven chips in the freezer so I bunged a couple of potato croquettes in with them as well.

These were absolutely delicious and I couldn't recommend them any more and I give them the maximum of 5 stars! Get them while you can, now!

Mcennedy American Football Box | LIDL

Polish HotDogs - Tarczynski Premium Chicken Fillet Hot Dog Sausages

Cost at time of review: £1.75 Purchased From: TESCO

For me I will always associate a hot dog as being made from pork and for in my experience it is a word associated with a low quality (cheap) product in a tin. Gradually over time, our UK supermarkets have started to sell much better, premium (or proper) hot dogs not only in jars, but in packets in the chiller section in various different guises.

I first noticed the Tarczynski branded hot dogs in the Polish section one of the chillers when I was shopping in Tesco so I just had to put them in my basket and give them a go. As with a lot of hot dogs (or frankfurters if you will) they are already cooked so you can either eat them cold or warm them up in boiling water or possibly in the microwave.

If you look closely at the packaging (and use Google Translate) you will see no mention of the word hot dog nor a photo of a hot dog bun, just some sort of dip and salad vegetables (tomato and cucumber).

After taking one bite you will soon realise these are not the poor quality hot dogs you get in a tin for 50p, these are a premium quality, meaty product that tastes equally good cold as they do hot and I'm sure I can taste a hint of smokiness to them.

They are rather small so you will need at least two of them in a hot dog bun if that's your method of eating, else chop them up and have them in a salad - or do what I did, heat two up for a hot dog and whilst waiting for some fried onions to cook, eat a couple cold from the packet!!

It might not look amazing, but it tasted delicious! Layered on bed of fried onions with Heinz tomato ketchup and then topped with some American style mustard - I think next time I have one I will put a few thin slices of tomato in there too just to enhance the flavour.

A tasty hot dog sausage that deserves a 4 star review, so that's exactly what I will give it.

Tarczynski Chicken Hot Dogs 180G - Tesco Groceries

Inside Out Chicken Kievs Recipe

Ingredients

1 Chicken Breast
1 Egg
Garlic
Parsley
Butter
Breadcrumbs

Instructions

Whisk up the egg in a normal size bowl that is large enough for you to dip a chicken breast in
Dip the Chicken Breast in the beaten egg
Coat in breadcrumbs (golden breadcrumbs are nice but panko breadcrumbs are amazing)
Place on a baking tray and bung it in the oven at 180°C for 25 minutes
Melt some butter in a small pan
Add a spinkling of parsley
Pour over the chicken when done!

Serving Suggestion(s)

I love Runner Beans (or Stringless Beans) and mashed potatoes with Inside Out Chicken Kievs but you can have it with any vegetables you like.

ALDI Ashfields Garlic and Herb Chicken Kievs

Cost at time of review: £1.99 Purchased From: ALDI

I had the 3 cheese version the other day so time to try the garlic and herb version to see if it's of the same quality.

The Stringless Beans were on offer at Tesco making them cheaper than the ones at ALDI on this occasion. Stringless beans are part of the same family as Runner Beans so I know I'm going to enjoy them.

As I've said previously (for me) it doesn't matter if I have some 'budget brand' Kievs like these from ALDI or more 'luxurious' ones from Waitrose, whatever filling in the centre always seeps out and these were no exception.

I even tried lowering the temperature a bit on my Tefal 9 in 1 Air Fryer, but it still leaked out. I decided to grab some clover light and a tiny squeeze of garlic and melt it in the saucepan that had my stringless beans in and have it to dip the Kiev in.

A tiny bit of gravy on the stringless beans and we're good to go...

The Ashfields Garlic and Herb Chicken Kievs were equally as good as the three cheese one I tried the other day. Don't get me wrong, they're not in the same league as one that costs 2 or even 3 times more, but at around £1 a portion they are amazing value for money and well worth a buy.

Equally as good as the 3 cheese ones I had the other day, so once again a very strong 3 stars out of 5 so I will definitely be buying these again.

Ashfields Garlic & Herb Chicken Kievs 260g/2 Pack | ALDI