You can delight your little family on a small budget and without breaking the bank, but you have no inspiration for your dishes? We will help you.
It is sometimes difficult to have recipe ideas for every day of the week. Even more when you have to fit into a tight budget. It’s a real challenge. In addition to that, who says cheaper does not mean less good. It is by using simple products and having a little imagination that you will be permanently satisfied with your dishes. In the products that are not excessively expensive, and which are sure to please the whole family, we find: all forms of pasta. However, if the basic ingredient of your dish is not very expensive, you can put more budget in the accompaniment, like vegetables, parmesan, meat…
To improve the taste of your dishes and in a very simple and inexpensive way, you can also use your spices. A sauce or broth also works well. If you’re short on ideas and imagination, don’t worry. Here are 20 recipe ideas for 4 people for less than 10 euros.
Our favorite recipes under 10 euros
- Tomato mozzarella pizza with ketchup
We offer you this recipe for tomato-mozzarella pizza with ketchup. All you need to do is assemble pizza dough, ketchup, mozzarella balls and a few basil leaves. Bake the pizza at 180° for 30 minutes. This recipe is ideal for your family meals.
For this recipe you will need:
1kg potato, 200g onions, 1tsp olive oil.
- Homemade croque monsieur with goat cheese
For this recipe you will need:
– 8 slices of white bread
– 100 g of goat cheese
– 2 tbsp. chopped basil
– 4 lettuce leaves
– 40 g of butter
– 40g of margarine
The recipe to follow:
– Butter the slices of bread on the outside with the margarine
– Mix the goat cheese with the chopped basil and the butter.
– Spread this preparation inside the croque-monsieur and cover with a washed and drained lettuce leaf.
– Gather the slices of bread two by two and cook for 15 minutes in a pan over medium heat.
- Shepherd’s pie with minced steaks
For this recipe you will need:
– 8 potatoes
– 500 g of minced steaks
– 100g spice mix sauce
– 200g tomato sauce
– 2 onions
– olive oil
– butter
– salt pepper
The recipe to follow:
– Preheat your oven to 200°C.
– Peel and wash the potatoes.
– Cook them in water then pass them through a potato masher after adding a knob of butter. Salt, pepper.
– Peel, wash and chop the onions.
– Using a fork, chop the minced steaks.
– Pour 2 tbsp. tablespoon olive oil in a sauté pan and sauté the onions over medium heat.
– Incorporate the minced meat, the tomato sauce and then the sauce with the spice mixture. Salt, pepper.
– Cook for a few minutes.
At the end of these minutes of cooking, transfer the preparation to a dish and cover it with the mashed potatoes. Level the surface with a fork.
Bake for 15 to 20 minutes.
For this recipe you will need:
Ground meat, onion, tomato, mustard, ketchup, hamburger bun, cheddar and salad.
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Mustard Pasta
For this recipe you will need:
– package of pasta of your choice
– 500 g of chicken breasts
– 30 cl of fresh cream
– 1 shallot
– 1 onion
– 1 glass of white wine
– mustard
– old-style mustard
– olive oil
– fleur de sel, ground pepper
The recipe to follow:
– Peel the onion and the shallot then slice them. Cut the chicken breasts into strips. Cook pasta as directed on package.
– Drain and set aside.
– In a skillet, heat 2 tbsp. tablespoon olive oil. Sauté the chopped onion and shallot. Deglaze with the white wine then add the chicken breasts. Cook 5 to 6 minutes.
– Pour the fresh cream and mustards according to your taste, mix and let bubble for a few minutes. Serve the pasta in deep plates and top with the creamy chicken sauce. Salt, pepper and enjoy.
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The recipe to follow:
– Cook the lentils as indicated on their packaging (generally 30 min in cold water from when the water is boiling).
– Let them cool, to go faster, you can pass them under cold water.
– Prepare the vinaigrette.
– Fry the bacon strips.
– Cut the tomatoes into fairly thin quarters (more pleasant on the palate) as well as the feta into cubes.
– Add the lentils once cold as well as the bacon, feta and tomatoes in your vinaigrette.
- Pork tenderloin with zucchini
For this recipe, you will need:
– 1 pork tenderloin of 700g
– 1 kg of zucchini
– 10cl defatted chicken broth
– 1 clove of garlic
– 2 tbsp olive oil
– 30g of butter
– Pepper and salt
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For this recipe you will need:
– 200g shortcrust pastry
– 200g of bacon
– 30g of butter
– 20 cl of milk
– salt and pepper
– 3 eggs
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For this recipe you will need:
– a vegetable stock cube
– a ball broth
– 2 carrots
– 1 yellow onion
– 1 small box of mushrooms (cut)
– 1 small jar of fresh cream
– lemon
– flour
– 25cl of white wine
– salt and pepper
– 1 kg of veal blanquette
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For this recipe you will need:
– 8 slices of white bread
– 8 slices of bacon
– 8 eggs
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For this recipe you will need:
– 4 Sausages with a knife
– 4 large bintje potatoes
– 1 parsnip
– 25cl whole milk
– 20cl Whipping cream
– 50g semi-salted butter
– 1 unsalted butter
– 1 bay leaf
– Salt pepper
The recipe to follow:
– Peel and cut the potatoes into large chunks. Peel and cut the parsnip into rounds. Put them to cook together in a saucepan of boiling salted water with the bay leaf. Check for doneness by inserting the blade of a knife. Drain them.
– Pour the milk into the measuring cup and heat it in the microwave. Place the masher over the salad bowl and pass the potatoes and parsnip through it. Crush them, wetting them regularly with hot milk.
– Soften the puree with the liquid cream, until the desired consistency is obtained. Add the butter, salt and pepper. Mix carefully. Cover to keep warm.
– Melt the butter in the pan and brown the sausages over low heat, turning them regularly. Cover if necessary to cook evenly. Serve hot with the mash.
- Farfalle with kale and goat cheese
For this recipe you will need:
– 6 garlic cloves
– 3 small shallots
– 1 kale
– 300 g farfalle pasta
– 250 g fresh goat cheese
– 3 tbsp. pine nuts
– 3 tbsp. lemon juice
– 10 cl of olive oil
– Salt pepper
The recipe to follow:
– Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Add the garlic and shallots and boil for 4 minutes.
– Add the kale leaves and boil them for about 1 minute. Using a slotted spoon, remove the leaves, garlic and shallot but do not discard the water. Place the drained leaves in a colander and place the garlic and shallot in a food processor.
– Put the pasta to cook in the water previously used.
– Squeeze the kale leaves and put them in the robot. Add goat cheese, pine nuts, salt, pepper, thyme and lemon juice. Slowly add the oil until you get a creamy consistency.
– When the pasta is cooked, drain it and pour the sauce over it. You can add cheese and thyme to decorate.
For this recipe you will need:
– 1 onion
– 4 tomatoes
– 100g of grated cheese
– olive oil
– 240g of white rice
– pepper
– salt
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For this recipe you will need:
– 1 can of bacon bits
– 2 tomatoes
– 120 g of lentils
– 1 red onion
– sunflower oil
– salt and pepper
– balsamic vinegar
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- Rice and zucchini gratin with ground beef
For this recipe you will need:
– chilli powder
-100 g of grated cheese
– 350 g ground beef
– 20 cl of fresh liquid cream lightened or not
– 150g of rice
– 6 zucchini
– olive oil
– salt and pepper
– 3 onions
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- Onion tart and fondant goat cheese
For this recipe you will need:
– 6 onions
– Provencal herbs
– puff pastry ready to roll out
– 20 cl of light cream
– 1 log of goat cheese
– 200g smoked bacon
– 1 egg
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- Spinach and ricotta pie
For this recipe you will need:
FOR THE DOUGH:
– 200g sifted flour
– 30 g of lard
– 1 egg
– 60 g of butter
– 1 C. olive oil
– salt
FOR GARNISH :
– 450g frozen spinach
– 200g ricotta
– 50 g fresh cream
– 1 clove of garlic
– 1 pinch of grated nutmeg
– 25 g of butter
– salt pepper
The recipe to follow:
– Preheat the oven th.7 (210°C).
– Prepare the dough, put the flour in a bowl. Dig a well in the center.
– Pour in 10 g of salt, the butter in pieces, the lard and the olive oil.
– Mix well, then add the beaten egg and 2 to 3 tbsp. tablespoon cold water. Shape a ball. Leave to rest for 1 hour in the fridge.
– Thaw the spinach over low heat, stirring it several times.
– Let cool, then squeeze them between your hands to remove as much water as possible. Roughly chop.
– Heat the butter with a minced clove of garlic in a skillet. Sauté the spinach for 4 to 5 minutes. Season with salt and nutmeg.
– Off the heat, add the cream and ricotta. Mix.
– Divide the dough in half and roll them out into circles larger than the pan. Line it with a first circle of dough.
– Garnish with spinach preparation, then cover with the second circle of dough.
– Seal the edges by pinching them with your wet fingers. Pierce a chimney in the center and gild the dough with egg yolk.
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– Put in the oven, cook for at least 45 minutes.
– Unmold when serving.
- Zucchini and curry soup
For this recipe you will need:
– 1 kg of zucchini
– 300 g potato
– 1 onion
– 1 clove of garlic
– curry
– pepper
– salt
– oil
– chicken broth
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- Warm goat cheese taost with honey
For this recipe you will need:
– 20 cl of fresh cream
– 1 loaf of bread
– 1 log of goat cheese
– 4 tsp liquid honey
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- Pasta with basil, sun-dried tomatoes and feta
For this recipe you will need:
– 1 sachet of fresh or normal pasta
– 1 bunch of fresh basil
– 1 jar of liquid cream
– 1 handful of dried tomatoes
– crumbled feta