By Haeley Huggard
What’s more stressful than picking out your outfit for the next day of school? How about when your significant other asks you, “what’s for dinner?”
Many people, especially college students, have a difficult time coming up with simple and affordable recipes for dinner. When my grandmother was growing up, her family didn’t always have money for tons of ingredients — they felt it was wasteful to use milk, eggs and breadcrumbs on just one batch of chicken. It was important to conserve ingredients and money for future meals.
Here’s one of my favorite recipes, “Grandma’s Fried Chicken.”
Ingredients:
1-2 packages of raw, boneless chicken tenders/breast
1 cup flour
Salt
Pepper
Vegetable oil (for frying)
Directions:
- Mix flour, salt and pepper together on a paper plate.
- Preheat a frying pan with vegetable oil, using only enough to cover the bottom portion of your chicken breast or strip. This should be no deeper than your thumbnail.
- Once oil is heated, take one piece of chicken and roll it into the flour mixture until the entire piece is evenly coated. You can do one at a time or multiple pieces, depending on how comfortable you are with cooking.
- Drop coated chicken into oil carefully — be careful not to burn your hands! Leave chicken to cook on one side until a crispy, brown skin has formed. Try not to move it until skin has formed or the coating will come off.
- When crispy skin has formed, flip chicken on the other side and repeat Step 3 until all chicken is cooked.
Hungry for more? Make it a meal with Brussels sprouts and mashed potatoes!
Ingredients:
1 bag Brussels sprouts
1 package instant mashed potatoes
1 tablespoon olive oil
Directions:
- Sauté Brussels sprouts in a pan with a tablespoon of olive oil on medium heat.
- Cook until soft. Season with salt and pepper and add other spices, if preferred.
- Boil a pot of water on the stove.
- Add instant potato mix into boiling water and stir until potatoes have firmed up.
- Serve and enjoy!
