The cheapest way to cook healthy food is to learn to cook using raw ingredients. The less process involved in making the food usually results in a cheaper healthier ingredient. This €1 pasta bake is a perfect example of a cheap hearty dish that is so creamy and satisfying. We’d love to know your go to budget friendly recipes.
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love your recipe videos
I need to sub with beans because I don’t have cashews and I need to make this today 😂
I hope I cook this, I have a blender but have never used it but this looks too good not to try. Thanks again guys for sharing 🥰🥰
Serious question, here. Why is it, as you say, a "really important step", to rinse the cashews after soaking? I just blend in the soaking water.
Thanks, I’ve just cooked this meal. I only put 3 cloves of roasted garlic in the sauce and substituted sweet potato for the courgette. Because I used gf pasta, I added 2 tablespoons of ground flaxseed. Thanks happypear v tasty.
Amazing.
I am outraged – no Tamari and no "Blendy Blendy" 😆 Keep up the good work lads.
Beautiful recipe. But given energy prices can you add the electricity consumption to the budget?
Loved this recipe. Especially the nut cream as I can’t eat nuts whole but I can if blended like this. Will definitely be giving this a go. Thank you
1.5 euro is around how much I spend on food in a day. Budget tip use sunflower seeds instead of nuts like cashews. Won't taste quite the same It's about 1/6 the price.
Careful, it looks like the bottom shelf behind you is collapsing.
Thankyou Rachael for the written recipe,kind of you
These guys have been helping me feed my family with easy vegan meals for years! Couldn't do it without the cooking videos! 💛
Looks great – the sauce really brings it together 😋💚
Preheat oven 190°C, soak 100g cashews, chop veg into fine slices, and sprinkle pinch of salt and olive oil over veg. Pop in the oven 20-25min. Cook pasta in ocean water and boil to al dente. Meanwhile, blend the cashews with roasted garlic, 400ml water, salt, splash of vinegar and tin of chopped tomatoes until smooth. Drain and rinse pasta. Mixed with roasted veg and cashew cream. Bake all together another 10min
How much water to add? I kinda didn't get it 😅 (English isn't my mother tongue)
Thank you for recipe. It seems awesome 👍
one tip to make it even cheaper… here (germany) you can buy broken cashews…they are about 30% cheaper than the whole ones… for a cashew cream it doesn't matter if they are broken…
Looks good!
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That's really cheap indeed
Thanks once again you fabulous beans – another gorgeous
Poking and sounding recipe. Will be putting this on the list for next week ✊🏼❤️👍👍👍
Awesome recipe!!! Very helpful 👌
Peppers and Courgettes are fruits, not vegetables.
Wow that looks good even though I'm a carnivore lol but I would put some nutritional yeast on top when it came out of the ovenMmmmmmmm good 👍✌✌🎅🌻
The people who can't afford to make this pasta bake will be the ones who can't afford to use their ovens because it's such an expensive way to cook. My local food bank told me recently that people are turning down things that have to be cooked in any way at all because they can't afford to pay for food as well as energy and the energy spend needs to be on heating. It's pretty grim news, really. Also, people in temporary accommodation often don't have access to decent cooking facilities.
I have chosen not to have an oven at all in my home because I realised in my last home that I used it so rarely. I'd be able to cook the pasta on the hob I have and roast the veggies in my air fryer (probably in batches). I wonder if it really needs that 10 minutes in the oven. Wouldn't it taste as good (although not have the crispiness the oven might give it) without it or with a few minutes in the microwave?
This recipe looks like a winner to me in so many ways – as most of your recipes do – but for the ultimate in delicious vegan food for people on a budget, I think it would need to be something that would go into a slow cooker. Relatively speaking, it's a cheap way of cooking to buy and to use. Fortunately you guys have an abundance of value-for-money, healthy vegan recipes that either use a slow cooker or which could be adapted to fit that cooking mode. Thanks again, guys.
Thank you this looks so yummy I have gastroparesis and I am going through a lifestyle change and your cooking ideas are helpful