This website is meant to introduce recipes that use less than 5 ingredients. By that, I actually mean 5 shopping ingredients to complement the basic dry or canned stuff you should already have in your kitchen pantry or cupboard. So, fresh chicken would count as an ingredient, but salt won't. And neither will the following items which I expect you must have in your kitchen pantry ALL the time. Else you really won't get very far at cooking anything!
But don't worry - all I want you to include in your pantry are items which you can get from any little grocery shop or supermarket. Nothing is exotic or hard to find at all.
So, the dry and canned ingredients that should always be in your kitchen pantry are:
* The top balsamico vinegars are slightly sweeter than normal balsamico, so you can "fix" your bottle of balsamico by mixing in a few teaspoons of honey into your bottle and shaking it up. Add one or two teaspoons at a time, drip and shake into the vinegar and taste it. The moment you can taste a hint of sweetness, then stop!
In addition, the following "pop-in" ingredients (mainly vegetables and spices) should also be added to the list, as they are items which are always available for you to pop into your shopping basket whenever you do your food shopping. So actually, there's no real need to get the "pop-in" ingredients unless the recipe requires it.
And so now you have your basic equipment, and your basic ingredients. So, let us start with cooking with not more than 5 ingredients!
But don't worry - all I want you to include in your pantry are items which you can get from any little grocery shop or supermarket. Nothing is exotic or hard to find at all.
So, the dry and canned ingredients that should always be in your kitchen pantry are:
- Salt
- Pepper
- Sugar
- Olive oil (extra virgin would be best)
- Flour (not self-raising)
- Soy sauce (light)
- Mustard (Dijon is best)
- Rice
- Tinned coconut milk (or packets of powdered coconut milk)
- Balsamico vinegar* (treated as described below)
- Bottle of sweet sherry
* The top balsamico vinegars are slightly sweeter than normal balsamico, so you can "fix" your bottle of balsamico by mixing in a few teaspoons of honey into your bottle and shaking it up. Add one or two teaspoons at a time, drip and shake into the vinegar and taste it. The moment you can taste a hint of sweetness, then stop!
In addition, the following "pop-in" ingredients (mainly vegetables and spices) should also be added to the list, as they are items which are always available for you to pop into your shopping basket whenever you do your food shopping. So actually, there's no real need to get the "pop-in" ingredients unless the recipe requires it.
- Onions
- Garlic
- Potatoes
- Ginger
And so now you have your basic equipment, and your basic ingredients. So, let us start with cooking with not more than 5 ingredients!
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