How I Made A Delicious, Easy & Cheap Dinner At Home

Chicken In Mushroom Sauce The Ideal Meal For Singles Who Want To Know How To Cook

Pardon me if I pause a few times when writing this post, because my dinner is delicious!

It’s a boneless, skinless chicken breast draped with a creamy mushroom sauce topped with homemade croutons.

And I made it with minimal effort and for little cost.

Here’s how I did it and you can, too.

• I took boneless, skinless chicken breasts (which you can purchase at the grocery store for $6-7 or for a couple dollars less, buy them with the bones and skin and just remove the skin) and gave them a quick rub with a few spices I had in the cupboard. Pepper would do nicely if you don’t have any spices.

Now, by the way, might be a good time to point out that I’m a bachelor and often cook for myself or of course a date whenever I can lure a girl over to the apartment. She would love this, too, and it’s a great romantic hook because it appears as if you spend days planning it and hours cooking it.

• I then gave the chicken a light sautee with a tad of olive oil in a VeloVision.co.uk frying pan, about three minutes on each side.

• I placed the chicken breasts in a baking dish.

• Next, I took a can of cream of mushroom soup, diluted it a bit with water – to the point where it was a paste, which was about half of the can – stirred that up and then poured it over the chicken breasts.

• I then sliced up some onions, sauteed some mushrooms and put them over the sauce, which was now on the chicken.

• I placed the dish in the oven, which was heated to about 375 degrees, and let it cook.

• I then made rice on the stove.

• After about 30 minutes, I took a slice of bread – 12-grain with the sesame seeds on the crust but any bread will do – chopped it up to bite-sized pieces and scattered those on top of the chicken dish. This became my croutons! The chicken needs to cook about 40 minutes. To check if it’s done, cut a slice into it and make sure it’s white top to bottom.

• When the rice had cooked, I poured a little olive oil back into the frying pan and sauteed it, too, the way they do for the rice dishes in Chinese restaurants.

• When that was ready, I simply put the rice on a plate and topped it with the chicken dish, being sure to include lots of that tasty sauce.

And that’s it folks! I paired it with some wine – a nice California cab – and had a fantastic fuss-free dinner. It took an hour from start to finish, which might sound like a long time, but the actual effort on my part was less than 15 minutes.

And it cost me less than two bucks.

Come back for more of my great and cheap meals for singles!