@beatthebudget: 5 lunches for £5 ~ Sweet & Sour Noodles Chicken Meatballs ❤️‍🔥 This is a lunch recipe that you can whip out when you cba to make a sauce, but you still want a delicious balanced meal. Plus that huge jar is only 85p?! Hope you love it! Save & like to try xxx Ingredients 1 jar of sweet & sour sauce (£0.85) 250g egg Noodles (£0.95) 500g chicken mince (£2.59) 1 onion, sliced into chunks (£0.10) 1 red cabbage (£0.89) 1 lime (£0.24) Cupboard Essentials 2 tsp olive oil 1 tsp garlic granules 1/2 tsp white pepper/black pepper 1 tsp ground ginger (if you have) Salt 300ml chicken stock Method 1.⁠ ⁠Combine the chicken mince with the garlic granules, pepper, ground ginger and season with salt. Form into medium/small meatballs, around 20 so that you have 4 per serving. 2.⁠ ⁠⁠Preheat a pan over a medium/high heat, then add the oil and meatballs. Leave to brown for around 3 minutes before giving the pan a shake. Continue to cook for 5 more minutes. 3.⁠ ⁠⁠Set the meatballs aside and deglaze the pan with a splash of stock. Add the onions and cook for around 4 minutes, season with salt and pepper. 4.⁠ ⁠⁠Next, pour the sweet and sour sauce into the pan, along with the stock. Stir to combine and add the meatballs back into the pan. Cook for 10 minutes over a medium/low heat. 5.⁠ ⁠⁠Meanwhile, cook your noodles, then rinse in cold water to remove the starch. Add 2 ladles of the sweet and sour sauce to your noodles in a bowl and stir to combine. 6.⁠ ⁠⁠Divide the sweet and sour meatballs into 5 containers, then add the noodles, then the cabbage on top. When it’s time to eat, remove the fresh cabbage from the top and reheat the noodles & meatballs for 2 minutes on high. Add a squeeze of lime & enjoy! #mealprep #noodlerecipe #budgetmeals

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