Recently I haven’t had much money to spend on exciting foods, so I’ve been making cheap things like stir fry. Tonight I wanted to make something different, so I did fry bread, hummus and fried okra. It’s all relatively easy and cheap. Don’t spend too much time trying to make your measurements exact, because I certainly wasn’t when I made these.
About half of the frybread was left when I took this
Fry Bread
Modified from RecipeZaar’s “Quick and Easy Fry Bread”
Ingredients:
- 1/2 cup white flour
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup whole wheat flour
- 2 tsp baking powder
- 3/4 cup warm water
Instructions:
Mix the dry things together, add the water and mix it for a while. Wait 5 minutes, then deep fry it until it puffs up. It takes a VERY short time.
Slightly boring looking hummus, but still delicious. If I had olives, I would've added them.
Hummus
Ingredients:
- 1 can garbanzo beans (chickpeas)
- 1 tsp salt (or however much you want)
- 2 tbsp olive oil
- 1 tbsp tahini (sesame seed paste)
- 4 tbsp lemon juice
- 2-4 cloves garlic
Instructions:
Drain the can of beans, then put everything in a food processor and blend it until it’s the consistency you want. Tahini is similar to peanut butter, except more bitter.
If you want to make it more exciting, try adding things like olives, jalapenos, or caramelized onion.
You could probably use peanut butter if you don’t want to get tahini, but I make no promises.
With two cloves of garlic, this recipe is pretty generic. With four, some people probably won’t like it.
Fried okra. This used to be my favorite food.
Fried Okra is just okra coated with flour and corn meal, then deep fried. If you need a recipe, there’s a billion online (because the proportions don’t really matter at all).