All my club meals (for ICCC) are based on a tomato stew cos canned tomatoes are cheap and delicious. Here's three variants. All in pot pasta is the most popular at the moment, we even made it a few times on expedition! They're all vegetarian so we don't have to cook two meals (plenty of bacon at breakfast anyway) so I try and include beans or eggs for protein.
Cavers' Shakshuka
Serves 16
8 red onions, sliced
2 bulbs garlic, mashed
8 bell peppers, sliced
4 chilli peppers, sliced with seeds
6 cans tomatoes
1 tube tomato pur?e
Smoked paprika
Chilli powder
Cumin
Fry the onions and garlic with salt, adding the chillis and bell peppers when soft. Split into four frying pans. Add chopped tomatoes and pur?e, simmer, adding spice to taste. When the sauce is well cooked (30 minutes), make an indentation in the stew, crack eggs into from some height so that they penetrate deeper into the stew. Use a fork to gently mix the white of the egg into the stew so it cook well. Cover and leave to simmer until egg white is cooked. Serve with crusty bread, cous cous and plain yoghurt.
All in Pot Pasta
Serves 16
3 onions diced
1 bulb garlic smushed
3 cans chickpeas drained and rinsed
1 tube tomato puree
Cumin
Smoked paprika
2 L vegetable stock - boullion powder or cubes
2 kg pasta - ?shells? (conchiglie) are best
Fry onions and garlic in oil until soft (10 mins). Add chickpeas, a fair whack of cumin and smoked paprika and tomato puree, cook to a thick paste (10 mins). Add stock, bring to the boil, add pasta and cook until al dente (slightly chewy). Serve.
Generic Tomato Based Stew
Serves 16
4 big onion diced
Bulb of garlic smushed
6 big sweet potatoes, diced to 1-2 cm cubes
4 bell peppers, diced to 2 cm
Other veg: carrots, courgettes
6 cans chopped toms
Tomato puree
Fry onions and garlic in oil for 10 mins. Add sweet potatoes and fry for 10 minutes. Add bell peppers and other vegetables along with chopped tomatoes and tomato puree. Bring to a boil and then simmer until all the veg is cooked (sweet potatoes take longest, hence a small dice is preferable). Serve with cheap white bread heavily discounted in Morrisons.
We've got a doc with loads of other recipes but I'll let the others decide if they want to share their culinary masterpieces.