Ok, so some of you ladies are full cooks.
But some of us only venture into the kitchen when we can’t afford to eat pizza anymore.
So, for those of you ladies with a tight budget and nearly zero cooking skills, please do share what you plan to be making in your iftaris this season!
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Buy cans of chickpeas or other canned beans, fix a quick chaat with some red onions, tomatoes, cilantro, green chillies and chaat masala. All cheap ingredients, healthy and easy to fix.
You could also buy a sandwich maker...here we get them for less that $20. You make make hot sandwiches with potato filling, qeema filling, egg and cheese filling, or just leftovers.
Fruit chaat/salad.
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baked beans on toast?
you mean...baked beans on tortilla...
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That would be one tortilla chip, yes?
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americans dont have the luxury of bakes beans!
i love baked beans in a jacket potato!
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Make soup - all u need is some water and a stock cube. Then add anything to it when it boils, like:
a bit of pasta,
some canned beans (you can even rinse some baked beans and add them),
cabbage,
bit of chicken,
a handful of oats,
carrots,
sweetcorn,
onion,
potatoes,
tomato,
mushrooms,
chillies.
ANYTHING that is edible. Flavour with some soya sauce, chilli sauce pepper n vinegar.
Serve with fresh baked bread (or tortilla's).
americans dont have the luxury of bakes beans!
i love baked beans in a jacket potato!
???? But Baked Beans were invented in America. How strange. Here the shop's own brand baked beans are the cheapest things available, famous as student on a tight budget food.
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I believe baked beans here in US have pork in em..or are prepared in pork broth. I think.
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I heard sumthing like that …is that true of kidney beans and garbanzo beans as well 
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We usually make
fruit chaat
dehi chaat
samosay (cheese or mixed veggie)
pakoray
egg rolls
Occasionally chicken fingers/nuggets OR potato cutlets
If we order pizza.......then we break fast with that instead of the items above.
Make soup - all u need is some water and a stock cube. Then add anything to it when it boils, like: a bit of pasta, some canned beans (you can even rinse some baked beans and add them), cabbage, bit of chicken, a handful of oats, carrots, sweetcorn, onion, potatoes, tomato, mushrooms, chillies.
ANYTHING that is edible. Flavour with some soya sauce, chilli sauce pepper n vinegar.
Serve with fresh baked bread (or tortilla's).
hmm, personally I don't think soup would fill me up after a whole day of fasting.
I'd say prepare sandwich spreads from before. Say chicken salad spread or egg salad spread. Do you have an oven toaster?? Right before iftari you could toss sum on bread, put on a cheese slice and put that in the oven toaster.
Also kababs. You know how to make shami kababs? Cuz you can always buy ready made pitas and to save time you can also pre-fry your kababs.
How abt those frozen parhatas?? (if ure a parhata person)
Bagel w/ cream cheese. Or my fave, everything bagel xtra toasted with butter/ tomatoes n snp. (I can eat 3 of those in a row..)
omelette sandwich
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Well i know the usual stuff, but i was talking more about recipes that might involve some mild light cooking and involve actually cooking...as oppose to spread on a bread.
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daal? cheap and highly nutritious!
peas & rice are way easy and a packet of frozen peas is really cheap. rice has been a bit pricey lately but the bag should last you a while.
throw about a tbsp of oil in a pot with a sprinkling of kala zeera, and fry until it turns browner, but not black.
pre-soak a cup of rice and then drain it.
add the rice to the pot. add half a cup of frozen peas to the pot.
add in 1.5 times the water (so cup and a half, in this case), measured carefully.
bring to a boil on high.
then put the lid on, turn the stove down to between "medium" and "low".
cook for about 15-20 minutes. (you can check around 10 minutes)
its done when the water is all dried up and there are these little holes opened up on the top of the rice.
use a pot with a clear lid if you can so you can see when its done- its important not to break the "dum" too soon.
serve it with daal, kebabs or qeema, pappadums, raita with finely chopped up onions/cucumbers in it, and timatar ki chutney (also super cheap and delicious).
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What u need is KEEMA! Yes, good old minced meat. Inexpensive, easy to cook and will fill u up if u have it with some pitta bread or naan or rice ( like SGC's rice n peas, above).
Chop and onion, fry, take out of pan.
Add a pound of minced meat to the pan and brown.
When the liquid has nearly evaporated, add some small diced potatoes and stir fry until dry and the oil has separated.
Add some salt, pepper, garam masala, curry powder, chilli powder (any spice u like).
Add a heaped tablespoon of tomato puree and stir fry for 1 minute. Return the onions to the pan.
Add some water to get it to the consistency u require and simmer for a few minutes until u know the potatoes are cooked.
Add a squeeze of lemon and some chopped green chillies and cilantro (coriander).
HEY PRESTO - a lovely, delicious, piping hot keema and potato curry.