We only have one gas ring and I'd like to keep things simple by only taking one pan.
I think we'll all get a bit bored with bangers and beans or pasta and sauce, so does anyone have any great one pot easy, quickish recipes or that will satisfy two adults and three teenage boys!
Cook some pasta - drain and put in a bowl. Fry some onions and garlic, courgettes,red pepper and mushrooms then add smoked salmon (I use the offcuts from T**co), add white wine if wanted and cream. Pour over the pasta. Mmmm.
How about tuna nicoise - you only need to cook hard boiled eggs and new potatoes and maybe green beans for that.
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This is a real quickie which we use all the time - for family of 5 I'd suggest the following quantities - my kids call this Mummy's Pot Noodle its very tasty & so simple!
3 sachets of straight to wok amoy fine noodles 1 tin of garden peas or fresh ones if you like 1 tin of sweetcorn 4-5 tablespoons of soy sauce 800 ml of hot chicken stock 2 or 3 cooked chicken breasts chopped
Chuck it all in the pan together stir it up until noodles separate and almost boiling - ready in about 5 mins
1 Small onion, chopped
1 Garlic clove, crushed
175g of Chorizo sausage, sliced
2x 400g tins of chickpeas, drained
6 tablespoons of tomato passata
2 tablespoons of chopped parsley
• Fry onions until brown
• Add garlic and chorizo, cooking until it sizzles and changes colour
• Stir in drained chickpeas
• Add tomato and parsley
• Cook over a medium heat for until chickpeas are soft, stirring constantly
Serve with chunky bread
We love this.... boil carrots and potatoes along with a cup of veg cup a soup(add extra water) bit of salt and pepper, you dont want loads of extra water cos you want it quick think, like a sauce, its lovely on its own with crust bread to mop up the juices or with some cooked chicken along with it.
Simmer a chicken carcass, and a bay leaf, in about two pints of water for an hour. Strain through a colander and return liquid to pan. Remove any chicken meat from the bones before discarding. To the chicken stock add the reclaimed meat and any left over vegetables you happen to have handy - I used peas, carrots, broccoli, cooked, diced potatoes and a couple of slightly wrinkled mushrooms found lurking at the back of the 'fridge. Salt and pepper to taste. Bring to simmering point and reduce by a third.
Make up suet/self-raising flour/salt pastry into dumplings and simmer for ten minutes. This, truly, is a meal in itself alongside crusty bread. Sustaining and supremely comforting after a long day.
Chicken Stir-Fry.
Tablespoon of olive oil in a pan. Add a chopped onion and a handful or two of frozen peas, salt and pepper. Fry gently for five minutes until onions are soft and transparent. Add cooked chicken and a couple of slices ham (all of it cut into small pieces.) Cook for two minutes. Make a well in the centre of the mixture and pour into it two beaten eggs. Turn the heat down to low. Walk away, make yourself a coffee. Return to pan - by which time the eggs will have cooked - stir cooked eggs into surrounding meat mixture. Then add cooked rice and mix well.
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Just bought the Argos Value Slow Cooker for £4.89 (you couldn't make it for that, as my nan would say) and can't wait to get back out there and experiment with some camp grub.
Thinking maybe a stew of chicken thighs with chorizo and olives in a tomato type sauce...hunk of bread and a drop of vino...done
If thte weather's a bit parky and you just want quick comfort food that won't use all your gas, how's about my Dad's Pot Mess? He used to do this when we were camping on a single gas burner, (primus stove for those about my age), and it was deeelish. He would often knock it up indoors too on bonfire night.
Ron's Pot Mess
Literally just throw in to one large pot:
Small tin of braised steak in gravy
Small tins of cream of tomato soup and oxtail soup
Chopped onions
Tin of carrots
Small tin of new potatoes
Couple of beef Oxo cubes, ( I know other makes are available but tbh, you can't beat the Oxo flavour for this grub), in half a pint of boiling water.
Really good glug of Worcestershire sauce and enough salt and pepper to taste.
Pretty much all you do is boil it up and pop the lid on the pan then simmer until the spuds are just starting to go soft and if you want it a bit thinner, just add more water and bring back to the boil.
Serve with fresh crusty bread for a really hearty nosh or if you're feeling over adventurous bung in some dumplings and let simmer with the lid on for another 15-20 mins but that uses more of your gaz.
Have to say that my Dad used to make this with no end of variations and pretty much anything he had lurking in the camp kitchen. Mum used to say it cost her a fortune whenever he wanted to make Pot MessBut it was yummy. Come to think of it, I might knock up a Pot Mess while we're in Cornwall coz us, Cornwall and good weather rarely go together
I've got l-o-a-d-s of soup recipes that are obviously also done in one pot too. In fact, even though we have a tin tent we only used to have a two ring burner and grill in our old tin tent so were just about as well equipped as most camp kitchen stoves anyhoo but I do always take my electric hand blender with me too to blitz the soups but a good masher could be almost as useful without leccy I reckon.
1 -2 Peppers (Red or Green), chopped and/or thinly sliced
Handful of fresh chopped mushrooms
Garlic as preferred (we prefer loads) or garlic salt will do
1 level teaspoon chilli seeds or 1/2 level teaspoon of chilli powder instead
1 heaped teaspoon of curry powder
Cooking Instructions
1) Drain oil from tuna into a frying pan, 2) Fry onion, peppers, mushrooms, garlic and chilli seeds/powder well - for about 10 minutes, 3) Add tuna and mash with wooden spoon whilst cooking to break chunks up, 4) Then add curry powder and cook well for about 5 minutes., 5) Serve with boiled rice (we use boil in the bag rice for less mess).
This is the standard recipe but more curry and chilli powder can be added. Its up to you. Enjoy!
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Topic: One pot recipes
), and it was deeelish. He would often knock it up indoors too on bonfire night. 
