Chicken Caserole with Home Made Bread.

There has been so much going on recently with families saying they can not afford to eat and people like Jamie Oliver trying to educate people on cooking healthy food for on the cheap. It does annoy me to think that so many families live on frozen rubbish just becausee they have no idea how to cook or any idea what to cook. I would love to dedicated a whole website to creating cheap healthy meals.

Things like Caserole are so easy and so cheap everyone should know how to cook it. I love it with my own home made bread.

Left overs can be frozon and you can easily feed a family of 5 for less than £10.

Sometimes going back to basics is just so satisfying, especially on these cold and windy summer days!

For the bread:
2lb wholemeal bread flour
1 pint of warm water
1oz of dried yeast
2 tablespoons of sugar
2 tablespoons of salt
Handful of fresh rosemary (chopped)
Handful of Sesame seeds
2 x handfuls of Sunflower seeds.

Combine the flour, yeast, sugar, salt and half of the sesame and sunflower seeds.
Add the water and mix together. Shake a load of flour onto your work surface and plonk the mixture on top. Now is time to get stuck in with the kneading for at least 5 minutes. roll, slap, fold and push around and then do it all some more! Place back in a bowl with a wet tea towel on top and leave it to rise for 30 minutes, or until it has doubled in size. Then mold into shape and cover the whole of the outside with the remaining seeds. Bake for 20 minutes or until golden brown.

For the Chicken and Veg casserole:

2 x chicken breasts (cut up)
1 large onion
Varied assortment of veg: Potato, sweet potato, cabbage, carrot, peas, broccoli (whatever you have basically)
2 Pints of hot veggie and or chicken stock.
Salt and pepper.
3 rosemary stalks (chopped)

Brown the chicken in a frying pan with the onion and transfer to a casserole dish, add all the uncooked veg and completely cover with stock. Add salt and pepper and chopped up rosemary. Cover and cook in oven on medium to high heat for around an hour or you can leave this is in the oven to cook on a low heat for hours if you wish. I am sure back in caveman times this used to be cooking all day!
Serve with the lovely chunky bread and real butter

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