Recipes Using Your Leftovers!

If your family is like a majority of families out there, your fridge is filled with left overs.  A lot of people do not want to eat the same dinner two days in a row, but do so to get rid of left overs.  What if there was a way to make a completely new meal just using left overs?  Here are two recipes that will not only impress your family and guests, but will also empty out your fridge.

Fried Rice

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Fried rice is one of the easiest dishes to make!  It is supposed to be a mixture of a bunch of different ingredients.  If you have left over chicken or rice, you have almost everything you need to make this dish!

What you need:

• Left over chicken or Bacon
• Rice
• Soy sauce
• Olive Oil
• 1 Onion
• 1 egg
• Left over Corn
• Left over Peas
• Left over Carrots
• Garlic powder
• Salt
• Pepper

Prep:

• Cut left over chicken or bacon into small cubes or strips
• If you do not have left over rice, cook one serving of rice
• Chop a quarter of an onion into the smallest possible pieces
• Chop left over carrots into small pieces
• Beat one egg in a bowl

Cooking Instructions:

• Heat up a large skillet to medium while adding Olive Oil
• Add the quarter of an onion that you chopped to the skillet
• Wait until the onions are browned before adding in chicken or bacon
• When the chicken or bacon is added, sprinkle a lite amount of salt, pepper, soy sauce, and garlic powder
• Add in corn, peas, and carrots
• When chicken or bacon looks like it is warmed up, add in your beaten egg
• Move around and mix egg with the onions, peas, carrots, and chicken (egg should have a scrambled egg texture)
• Once your onions, chicken, egg, peas, carrots, and corn are mixed, add rice into the skillet
• Add a generous amount of olive oil and soy sauce to rice
• Mix all ingredients till it looks evenly mixed
• Add more salt, pepper, and garlic
• Taste rice and see if it needs more soy sauce or salt and pepper
• Once rice is hot and brown from the soy sauce, it is ready to be served!

Shrimp Pasta

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This dish is easy and will please any seafood lover.

What you need:

• Left over shrimp
• 2 TBSP of Butter
• Olive Oil
• Left over pasta (with no sauce)
• Basil leaves
• Cherry tomatoes
• 1 Clove of Garlic
• Salt
• Pepper
• Parmesan Cheese

Prep:

• Chop up Garlic into the smallest possible pieces
• Cut Cherry Tomatoes either in half or into fourths
• Warm up Pasta lightly in microwave

Cooking instructions:

• Heat up skillet on stove to a medium temperature
• Melt butter in skillet
• Add garlic to skillet
• Once garlic is browned, add left over shrimp to skillet
• Once shrimp is browned, add cherry tomatoes and basil
• Add Olive Oil if needed
• Once ingredients are all mixed and heated, add in pasta
• Lightly add more Olive Oil
• Season with Salt and pepper
• Once everything is heated and mixed well, add onto plate and sprinkle parmesan cheese!
• Bon appetit!

Nobody likes throwing away and wasting food.  Now with these recipes, nothing will go to waste!