We are returning back to basics this week with 5 easy to make three-ingredient recipes.
These budget-friendly recipes are set for your own fine dining experience. From sweetened iced tea to nutty dessert biscuits, your dining table is about to experience it’s most affordable yet deliciously rich spread yet.
Tie in that apron. Get your pans and pots on that stove and let’s get to cooking.
Here are 5 Easy to make 3-ingredient recipes.
1. Lemon Ginger Iced Tea
It’s really hot outside during the day, and chilly at night lately. This recipe easily works to cool you down and warm you up just as well when piping hot. Plus the ingredients are a healthy store for vitamins and anti-oxidants.
Ingredients:
4 cups water(1 L)
1 lemon
1 piece ginger
2 teaspoons honey/sugar.
Recipe:
- Bring water to a boil and remove from heat.
- Cut lemon and ginger into thin slices.
- Add to the hot water.
- Steep for 5-10 minutes.
- Strain and pour tea into mug.
- Add honey, stir, and serve.
Note: it is healthier to rather wash the ginger thoroughly than to peel of its skin which is very high in gingerols. Oh, and don’t get rid of your lemon peels! You’ll need them later on.
2. Teriyaki Chicken
Yes, we are going straight to protein. No dulling. Sometimes, fried checking becomes boring– a bit too predictable. So we’ll try out this easy to make Teriyaki Chicken recipe. This takes averagely 15 minutes to prepare and 12 more to cook.
Ingredients:
1 kilo of chicken (preferably chopped into chunks)
1 cup soy sauce (240 mL)
½ cup brown sugar(110 g)
Recipe:
- Sear the chicken thighs evenly in a pan, then flip.
- Add the soy sauce and brown sugar, stirring and bringing to a boil.
- Stir until the sauce has reduced and evenly glazes the chicken.
- Best served with sprig-onion rice, or even pasta! Skewer the chicken and it’s becomes a flavourful khebob.
3. Caramel Sauce
Caramel Sauce is the kind of sweet topping that works with almost every baked goodie. Tip a bit on a fondant cake and a bite will have you swooning. This recipes takes you all but 15mins to make in all.
Ingredients:
250g of caster sugar
142ml pot double cream
50g of butter
Recipe:
- Tip the sugar into a heavy-based frying pan, stir in 4 tbsp water, then place over a medium heat until the sugar has dissolved. Turn up the heat and bubble for 4-5 mins until you have caramel. Take off the heat, then carefully stir in the cream and butter. Leave the sauce to cool, then tip into a squeezy bottle.
- Tip the sugar into a heavy-based frying pan, stir in 4 tbsp water, then place over a medium heat until the sugar has dissolved. Turn up the heat and bubble for 4-5 mins until you have caramel. Take off the heat, then carefully stir in the cream and butter. Leave the sauce to cool, then tip into a squeezy bottle.
4. Vodka Martini
You made a flavourful iced tea for the teetotallers. Now let’s make an easy vodka martini for those who like a little giggle with their dinner table talk. This is best served a twist of lemon peel. We told you it’d come in handy.
Ingredients:
60ml vodka
1 tbsp dry vermouth
Lemon peel, to garnish
Preparation:
- Stir your vodka, dry vermouth and a little ice together or put them in a cocktail shaker (if available) to combine.
- Strain into a chilled martini glass. Serve with a twist of lemon peel.
Voila!
5. Choco-Granola Cake
In the words of Marie Antoinette, “Let them eat cake!” Here’s an easy high fibred-cake to serve as an after show.
Ingredients:
200g of granola
3 cups chocolate flavoured milk
2 cups self-raising flour
Recipe:
- Place granola in a bowl and pour over chocolate milk. Cover with cling film and place in the refrigerator for an hour.
- Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced). Line a 20cm round cake tin with baking paper and set aside. Sift self-raising flour over the soaked granola and stir the mixture until combined.
- Pour mixture into lined tin and place in the oven for 2 1/2 hours.
- Check the oven each hour to make sure that the top isn’t burning. If you think it will burn then make a cartouche (ring of baking paper) and place on top of the cake. Continue to cook until a skewer inserted into the centre comes out clean.
Note: you can also use this recipe using all sorts of flavoured milk (from strawberry to vanilla or even banana). Topping your cake with caramel sauce will be *chef’s kiss*. Have fun with it.
So there you go. 5 easy to make 3 ingredient recipes.
Have fun and carry on cooking and dining.
Do you have any recipes to share? Kindly comment below. We’d love to read them.
