[S$20 Budget Meal] Ginger Chicken with Rice Wine, Spicy KangKong and Laver Anchovies Soup

Recently, I spotted a Singapore "$20 Budget Meal" event that got me interested. For US dollar, it would be $15 Budget Meal. You have to cook two dishes and a soup or a one dish meal that priced less than S$20/ US$15. Frankly, I never really counted how much each dinner that I prepared at home cost me. But I believe it would be less than $15. For April, one of the dishes must have an egg as an ingredient, so above was what we had on April 11, 2011 which I submitted to this event.

I am submitting this to "S$20 Budget Meal" or "US$15 budget meal" hosted by Cuisine Paradise.

Dried Laver (野生紫菜)Anchovies Soup. The cost of this soup is US$1.00. The recipe can be found here.

Cost of ingredients:

Spicy KangKong/Morning Glory/ On Choy with shrimp paste in soy bean oil. The cost of this dish is US$2.24. The recipe can be found here.

Cost of ingredients:

Kangkong - $1.50

1 Shallot - 20 cent

Shrimp paste in soy bean oil - 54 cent

Ginger Chicken with Rice Wine. The cost for this dish is US$1.80. This recipe can be found here.

Cost of ingredients:

1 skinless and boneless chicken breast - $1.30 (on sales)

Ginger - 25 cent

Wood Ear - 25 cent

Fermented sweet glutinous rice wine - FREE (given by a friend)

The sweet glutinous rice wine

I added the wine and residue together in stir-frying this dish thus the cloudy gravy you see above. But sweet and flavorful.

To sum thing up, the above meal only cost me US$5.04. Served 4. A healthy home cook meal at a fairly cheap price. All you need to have is a little time at home to prepare this wonderful meal for you and your family. By doing this event and really sat down and counted the amount of each ingredient I spent on this meal made me realized that home cook meal is really cheap. :-) Imagine, for $20, I can eat four meals at home!!