In a crisis, the answer to the question “How to save money on food without serious consequences?” Becomes more relevant than ever. At first glance, a complete diet requires significant costs. Although in fact there are hundreds of inexpensive and healthy dishes.

It is about these dishes that will be discussed in today's top ten, in which we collected the most economical recipes.

10. Chanahi with chicken

Dishes in pots are hearty and attractive. The budget option is to use chicken instead of pork or beef. For 4 servings you will need 4 chicken thighs, carrots, onions, 1 kg of potatoes, 50 g of sour cream, spices.

Fry chicken thighs with onions, arrange in pots with chopped potatoes and carrots, pour sour cream diluted in water. Salt and pepper to taste and put in the oven for 45 minutes.

9. Baked Beetroot Salad

This useful inexpensive salad can also be used as a side dish for the New Year's table. Bake one medium beet in the oven, wrapped in foil (can be boiled). Then peel and dice the beets, add 100 g of cottage cheese, a clove of garlic, parsley and season with vegetable oil with lemon juice, salt, pepper.

8. Cookie Cake

The most budget cake can be made from 300 g of inexpensive shortbread cookies, a glass of milk, 150 g of sugar, two tablespoons of cocoa. Optionally, add nuts, raisins or chopped banana.

We press the cookies with a rolling pin or chalk in a meat grinder, dissolve sugar and cocoa in the heated milk, pour the crushed cookies. The warm mass is placed in a detachable form and left to solidify. Pour the finished cake with chocolate icing.

7. Oatmeal fritters

For a useful and inexpensive treat you will need 1.5 cups of oatmeal, sweet and sour apple, egg, Art. spoon of sugar, a glass of kefir or sour milk, 1/4 teaspoon of soda.

In a blender, grind half the cereal into flour, add the grated apple, sugar, egg, the remaining cereal and milk. Mix everything and add soda. Fry in hot oil.

6. Homemade Shawarma

For a budget shawarma, you will need 300 g of chicken fillet, packaging of pita bread, half a head of cabbage (better than Peking), 100 g of sour cream, 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise, tomato, and onion.

Cut the chicken into strips, fry, salt and pepper. Finely chop the cabbage, cut the onion into half rings, and the tomato into cubes. Stir the vegetables and season with sour cream and mayonnaise. Wrap vegetables and cooled fillet in pita bread.

5. Chicken leg jelly

For an inexpensive Christmas recipe, you will need 600 g of chicken drumsticks, 500 g of chicken legs, 1 onion, 1 carrot, a teaspoon of salt, 3 cloves of garlic.

Shin and feet with water and put on fire. Drain the broth after boiling, add 2.5 liters of water and cook for 3.5 hours. At the end, add carrots, onions and salt. Separate the meat from the bones, arrange it in a container, add carrots and garlic, pour the broth.

4. Sauerkraut

A source of vitamins, magnesium and calcium - this budget dish becomes just a find in the winter season of a shortage of vegetables and fruits. For cooking, you need 5 kg of cabbage, 100 g of salt, 1 kg of carrots. Shred cabbage, mix with grated carrots and mix thoroughly with salt until cabbage juice stands out. We carefully ram the cabbage and put it under oppression at room temperature for about three days.

3. Buckwheat

Despite the price increase, buckwheat remains one of the available products. To make buckwheat pancakes, you will need a glass of boiled buckwheat, an egg, greens, a spoon of flour and your favorite spices. Mix everything and spread the buckwheat in a heated oil with a spoon.

You can add grated carrots or zucchini.

2. Bean Lobio

For an inexpensive Georgian dish, mix 2 cups of boiled red beans with turmeric, two cloves of garlic, a couple of spoons of tomato paste, grated carrots. Mix and simmer for 25 minutes, add a bunch of chopped greens.

1. Dumplings with cabbage and potatoes

For the test you will need 300 g of flour, 100 g of water, salt. As a filling, we use a mixture of boiled crushed potatoes with fried cabbage. Serve with sour cream or chopped herbs with garlic or with classic fried onions.

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