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What meals do you cook when very low on money? (lemmy.today)
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[–] 12 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Lentils, beans, onion, rice. Lentils and beans need to be soaked for a long time before cooking, but they're DIRT CHEAP, and they are actually super tasty. Just get used to it and you'll find it's basically comfort food. You can eat it with anything, but lentils and onion and rice is amazing, especially with some condiments or whatever

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  • [–] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    As a side note, it's a good investment to buy a pressure cooker at least for the beans since it cuts the cooking time to about 10 minutes (and this is assuming you've soaked the beans for at least 12H).

    Pressure cookers will also cut down the cooking time of things that need longer cooking to not be too hard to chew, such as cheap pieces of beef.

    Also consider chickpeas along with beans and lentils since you can cook them in the same way and they're the same kind of thing (pulses).

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  • [–] 3 points 1 year ago

    If you didn't soak your beans, you can still do them in a pressure cooker. It'll just take about an hour. It lets you make a somewhat last minute decision to have beans whenever you want.

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