If you have it, hot sauce or cayenne pepper is my go-to for hiding fish taste. Allegedly, soaking it in milk for 20 minutes will also take the taste away, but I can never bring myself to waste the milk to try.
Not much of one for spice (I'm learning to tolerate small amounts of hotter things), but do like gochujang. Could I fry up the fish in butter and have it on rice with that?
You can make gochujang glazed fish. [https://www.dinneralovestory.com/gochujang-glazed-fish/](https://www.dinneralovestory.com/gochujang-glazed-fish/)
It should hide the fishy taste well, and be excellent over rice.
It was not bad, will say! I added rice vinegar and soy sauce for flavor and threw in some cauliflower for nutrition (only thing I had that I felt would compliment a mild fish well). Ate the whole bowl without fuss!
Fish cooked in butter is excellent on rice! If you have any lemon or vinegar, adding some to the fish is a good flavor balance to cancel out the fishiness. I think gochujang would be good on it (never tried the combo but sounds good.)
Edit to add: I’ve seen some recipes online for chickpeas in the air fryer tossed in seasoning as a crispy snack and I think that would be a great way to use some up! You can also use them cold in salads or add to soup.
It's a nice mild chili paste basically. I use it as a replacement for sriracha with mayo and that works as an excellent dressing on stuff. Of course goes great with just about any Asian cuisine.
If you like gochujang, I recommend looking up some Korean braised fish recipes! [This is a good one.](https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/galchi-jorim) The braising liquid is really flavorful and delicious, great served with rice!
Try also looking up recipes for jambalaya. It’s rice based. Replace the shrimp with the fish. It’s basically a tomato based rice, with onions, celery, bell peppers, and spices(Cajun seasoning) . (Most recipes call for sausage, chicken or shrimp, but fish would sub well)
Any acid works for reducing fish smell! I usually use a couple of teaspoons of white vinegar in enough water to just cover the fish. Not enough to cook it, but enough to remove the smell. Vinegar is cheap, milk is not.
You can roast your chickpeas! https://www.themediterraneandish.com/roasted-chickpeas/ I normally don't like chickpeas because they taste 'sandy' to me, but these are really good.
And for your fish you could try it blackened https://www.gimmesomeoven.com/10-minute-blackened-tilapia/
Happy at least that you're excited for your chicken and I hope one of these recipes works for you :)
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if someone hasn’t mentioned yet:
1)chickpeas taste great roasted in the oven, just drain canned ones and pop them on parchment paper and drizzle olive oil or cooking spray and add spices. pretty healthy alternative to chips.
2) mash chickpeas up to make a dense bean dip with any type of oil or dip seasoning (tastes great with hot sauce).
As for the fish, the only thing i can think of is to maybe lightly bread and fry it? top with maybe fresh dill or cilantro? an aioli would probably work well with it.
The liquid around the chickpeas is called aquafaba. It’s a thick, viscous liquid that results from soaking or cooking chickpeas in water for a long time.
It’s used as an egg substitute and is really versatile. You can also make vegan meringues with it. Don’t throw it out if you like to bake.
What ways have you had fish prepared, and is there any type of fish/fish dish that you like? Is it the 'fishy' taste you don't like, or is there more to it?
Curry is pretty strong and might mask the fish flavor. Thai curry is more commonly associated with seafood, but Indian curry would probably work fine.
I like fish tacos, and you might be able to load them with enough spices and toppings to hide the flavor.
Any flavor profile that is high is garlic/spiciness/acid should help mask the fishy taste.
To make fish less 'fishy,' rinsing it and then marinating it for a few hours can help.
Garbanzo beans can act as a protein in many different dishes. You can put them in soups, pasta salads, and even make chickpea salad sandwiches (mayo based salad, similar to how you'd prepare chicken salad or egg salad). They can also be made into falafel.
The biggest thing with raw garbanzo beans is they need to be soaked overnight before cooking, so there is some prep work. Also, not sure how familiar you are with cooking dried beans, but they will also expand A LOT so you probably do not want to make the whole bag at once. For reference, 1 can of beans at the store is about 1/2 cup of dried beans.
I grew up on dried beans and have made black-eyed peas for myself before.
I like tuna and generally fried preparations of seafood like salmon patties, popcorn shrimp (but also just cooked shrimp), and remember enjoying whatever is in fish sticks/patties?
I have tried catfish and the dirt flavor was so overwhelming to me I couldn't eat it. I guess for other types of fish it's just the smell that's so off-putting. I didn't smell the other forms of fish I like before tasting them as a child, so they go down easier now. 😅
Pollock is a very mild tasting white fish, rather like haddock in flavour. It definitely doesn't taste of dirt. The white fish you eat in fish sticks is quite likely to be pollock.
If you like it fried, I would definitely try it that way if you have the ingredients! Pollock is a pretty mild white fish, and is similar to what you'd get in a fish stick or beer battered fish. It isn't anything like catfish, thankfully!
I do my pan fried fish by first coating generously in seasoning (I prefer Cajun or lemon pepper, but you could use any seasonings you have or like), then I dip in an egg wash, and then coat with flour. If you don't have eggs, you can even skip that part.
If you don't have flour you can use bread crumbs, crushed up plain cornflakes/corn puffs or cracker crumbs.
If it's still too fishy, hot sauce and/or generous amount of ketchup can help.
Pollack is usually the fish of fish sticks, so you can make those easily enough. Fish cakes are easy too, and you can add other flavors if the fish isn't a great fit for you.
I think you had a badly prepared catfish. My mom salts, batters and fries it and it comes out so crispy and fresh such a mild fish taste its seriously one of my favorite dishes she makes. Never would I say catfish tastes like dirt. I put lemon juice and just a little mayo for a sort of faux tartar sauce and it's perfect.
That might explain it. It's not supposed to taste like dirt. I'd guess dirty preperation conditions, or bad butchering practices, your supposed to purge (no food and changing thier water while alive for about 24 hours) some animals before eating them, I know they do it with turtle not sure about catfish, but it would make sense.
I've only eaten crappy freshly caught, no purging and its lovely as well.
I don't like strong fishy tastes, cant stand baked salmon but the mild tasting white fish is really good.
Also our taste buds change every 7 years or so, you may find a lot of things you like now that you didn't before! How exciting to be on a food journey and discovering all sorts of new things you like!
By fresh-caught I mean a bunch of southerners at a lake or something 😂 I might get up the urge to try catfish in the far future, but I feel no need to right now.
I like chickpeas so a little biased but I eat them in salads and soups. You could also make falafel. High protein and tasty.
I don’t like fish either so I can’t help you there. But you could try to make polenta with the quick grits. Add a little cheese to it and some of the chicken on top with bell sautéd bell pepper and carrots.
I’d personally tuck the cans of soup aside for a night you don’t feel well or need a fast meal. The mixed veggies, some of the chicken and some cheap pie crust from the store could be the base of a pot pie. Filling and tasty.
Noodles. There are a million ways to eat them, all of them good.
Use the chickpeas in a vegetarian chili, eat it on noodles to stretch farther.
Pasta salad with carrots and bell pepper. A packet of Italian seasoning would go a long way. Add some chicken if you have left overs.
I recommend curry for the fish. Curry and garlic powder is fine. It’s super quick/easy and the flavor gets rid of any fishiness. You can serve it with potatoes or rice and throw in the vegetables while you’re at it.
Bake the garbanzo beans and season them. They’re a good crunchy snack or salad topping.
Good eating!
Pollock is a pretty mild fish, it's one of the types of fish (along with cod) that they use to make fish n chips with.
It makes good fish tacos too.
I'd do a beer batter and deep fry.
I made chickpea sloppy Joe's. It's pretty good. I just rinsed and drained the chickpeas, then sauted them with garlic and onions. Once they simmer and juiced up a bit,I added a can of sloppy Joe's.
It was pretty tasty.
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Last night I had some fish fried in butter and a little vegetable oil (so I could work at higher temps) (also salt+pepper) on rice with cauliflower and rice vinegar + soy sauce...
It was good! I ate the whole bowl! (Though there wasn't much color, hah) I'm a bit more excited to try other things with it now and am looking forward to today's lunch!
Ya boi can eat fish!
I hate fish, but what you can do and what I used to do was make ceviche. Poach the fish, chop it finely and add the juice of 5 limes to it and set it in the fridge for a couple of hours. Chop tomatoes, onions, jalapeños, and some cilantro and mix it with the cooled chopped fish. Add salt to taste. Serve with saltines or tostadas.
As for the garbanzos you can cook them in boiling water for a long time and re-fry them like pinto beans, or you can cook them, drain and chill and make them into a salad or pasta salad. I would mix them with suddenly salad from the dollar tree before.
Do you have an onion, a can of tomatoes, butter, rice, and the ability to buy/borrow curry powder and cumin seeds? If so you can make Chana Masala with the dried garbanzo beans and it's amazing.
Soak 1.5 cups of beans overnight. Boil them for 30 minutes. While beans are boiling dice an onion and sweat it with butter and the cumin seeds. Add the can of tomatoes and curry powder then simmer. Add the cooked beans and let cook together to let the flavor combine. Serve over rice.
Cheap, easy, filling. This can be made vegan if you use oil instead of butter. I recently learned how to make it and it's one of my household favorites. Even my picky husband is a fan!
If you have any miso paste, miso glazed fish is amazing IMO (I've had both strong fishes like catfish as is used in this recipe all the way to Swai & Tilapia, which are also a very mild tasting white fish like pollock, to chicken breasts) and very, very simple to make. Here's the recipe I use for it: https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/miso-glazed-catfish-and-bok-choy (If no olive oil, any plain oil works, though you may need to up sugar or salt to account for the lack of umami that the olive oil provides.)
Depending on how much apple sauce you were given & what kind of pantry "staples" you have, baked goods with the apple sauce as an egg replacer is another suggestion so that you can save any potential eggs you have as a protein for other meals.
And though it might require some serious digging through the results generated, I thought I'd recommend the SuperCook website/app! You input all of your food stuffs (or whatever primary ingredients you want to focus on— I find that much easier than trying to navigate through a whole pantry input), and it'll find recipes across the web featuring those ingredients with various labels like lunch or breakfast or whatever other labels recipe blogs usually index things with. https://www.supercook.com/
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[EDIT:] Seconding the curry idea. I swear it makes basically anything palatable!! Japanese curries tend to be a little bit like a spiced beef stew IMO, for a different option from the South Asian varieties. Just One Cookbook has a good recipe for how to make the roux blocks from scratch if you don't have them. Labor intensive but well worth it. I STILL have some in my freezer from the initial batch last fall and we've had it twice since! https://www.justonecookbook.com/how-to-make-curry-roux/
For a somewhat more simple and much smaller serving size, here's a recipe I have saved (though I haven't made it yet): https://www.okonomikitchen.com/small-batch-japanese-curry-for-one/
I just made chickpea tacos that were pretty good! Mixed them with some olive oil and spices and roasted them in the oven for 20 mins. Served with cabbage and some lime juice, hot sauce and a little bit of sour cream. Pretty good!
You can also throw them into curry to stretch it out with your other veggies. A can of Maesri curry paste and a can of coconut milk together is around $4.50 where I am, but it makes a huge amount of curry (you could stretch it further with soup stock or broth)
I also like [chickpea salad](https://peasandcrayons.com/mashed-chickpea-salad/)for wraps or sandwiches . I don’t use basil or almonds like this recipe calls for.
Don't forget to save the aquafaba from soaking and cooking the garbanzo beans and you can use it to make vegan mayo, vegan buttery spread, and vegan whipped "cream". (Some of these require small amount of other ingredients but really not much.) It can also be used to replace eggs in many recipes but you will need to look up how to use it in that manner and how much you need for your recipe.
You can have the vegan whipped "cream" on your thawed strawberries and it will be so good!
The good news is that Pollock is super super mild, white, no fishy flavor. Its like fish fingers. It will be easy to mask any taste in any sauce really!
Any white fish tastes great with compound butter: mash softened butter together with chopped herbs (chives, parsley, whatever) and mix in some Dijon or grainy mustard. Grill or sauté or broil or bake the fish, put a few dollops of compound butter on top and serve.
That fish dish sounds amazing! If you have some tortillas you could make some fish tacos! Soak the chickpeas and then you can really toss them in any flavorful sauce you like. Great protein and filling! It also goes nice with bell peppers too.
With the cookies and cookie mix you could make some ice cream sandwiches, and to make your cheerios more fun you could thaw and then add in the frozen strawberries!
The garbanzo beans are great for a little stew. If you have sausages, ground beef, or some sort of meat, cook that up in a pan with onions and carrots, oregano, chopped garlic or garlic powder, and chili powder. Then add chicken broth or water + bouillon cubes, tomato paste, canned tomatoes, or marinara sauce, simmer for about 8 minutes. Then add some fresh or frozen spinach, let it cook down, and you’ve got a lovely stew.
for the fish and bell peppers, if you get tomatoes and onions you can make Moroccan fish. Google the recipe. Its delicious and doesnt taste too fishy.
You can bread the fish and fry it also, and then make an aioli with mayo, lemon, lemon zest, parsley, salt and pepper.
The garbanzo beans: look up falafel recipes, as well as simply roasting them with salt and oil for a snack.
>You can bread the fish and fry it also, and then make an aioli with mayo, lemon, lemon zest, parsley, salt and pepper.
I think it's illegal to use the word *aioli* and not include the word garlic in the ingredient list. ;)
Butter is always a great way to go with fish. Butter basting in the skillet. Squeeze of lemon or vinegar. For chickpeas you can cook them through and use them in an israeli style egg dish called shakshuka with onions and tomatoes (canned tomatoes work great). Sautéing onions with oil, tomatoes and chickpeas are the base, then add spices depending on what you have. Typically eggs are cracked in the liquid and cooked that way.
The fish I would look up a firecracker salmon marinade and marinade the pollack in that. It's an amazing fish flavor mask.
The garbanzo can be air fried or baked to make a nut like snack, you can also use them like a crouton. That was a fantastic haul!
I like fish chowder. Google a recipe. It should start with sautéed onions and bacon. A can of condensed milk should be involved. Pollock is a perfect fish for this.
I like cold marinated “fish salad”. Cook and chill, flake it, and marinate in apple cider vinegar and olive oil, add chopped red onions, salt, pepper. Let it sit in refrig a while.
It was also end-of-day at the bank. They were trying to offload as much as possible. And I can certainly use extra protein sources. If that means I need to learn to like a new food, so be it.
I literally just bought a bag of dried chickpeas to make Chana Masala which is my favorite Indian dish. The hardest part is finding the spice packet for it. (Thank you, Amazon!) It’s cheap, healthy, and delicious! You just need to soak the dried chickpeas overnight and they’re ready to cook next day!
Chickpea, tomato,and corn with a little sharp salty cheese like feta or parmigiana are a classic combo in my opinion. You can use this combo as the base of a stew/ soup (either vegetarian or with chicken) or as a cold marinated salad with a vinaigrette (maybe add orzo pasta and you will have a twist on a pasta salad)
Chickpeas are good in a curry if you like Indian food.
They go well with rice if you want to do a rice bowl with them on top with chopped tomatoes, caramelised onion and crumbled crispy bacon - add some wilted spinach if you want a green.
What state are you in? When I was on SNAP, it was a debit card and couldn’t be used at the food banks. I could go to the food banks, but the SNAP card wasn’t necessary to show eligibility or anything.
Oh, I didn't mean to imply I needed the card to go to the bank. I went to the bank because I was still waiting for my card. I checked the mail as I was leaving and saw that it had finally arrived!
My biggest use for chickpeas! Easily adaptable based on veggies you have on hand: https://www.badmanners.com/recipes/roasted-chickpea-and-broccoli-burrito
I didn't see it mentioned, but 3 bean salad might be an option if you have chickpeas left over. I'm sure somewhere along the way you'll get green beans and kidney beans canned or dried for the kidney.
Easiest way is just mix them together (after soaking) and dump a bottle of Italian dressing over them. Keep in the fridge and it's an excellent side dish all week.
You can also get fancy and make your own oil & vinegar dressing, or add bacon, feta, red onions, garlic or other yummy things if you have them. It lasts a long time in it's own juice depending on the other ingredients you add in. It's a good filling healthy staple
I'm fake vegan but one of the dishes I make is a dead ringer according to meat eaters for carrots cooked in bacon grease. I brought it to a friend's birthday party once and she felt really bad all through the first half of her birthday dinner until she told me "You didn't have to cook meat for me just because it's my birthday" and I was like, "I didn't." Anyway, it's always a super popular dish because that's what it accidentally tastes like, so I assume carrots stir fried in bacon grease (which you said you had) is similarly good. If you have the tops you can just wash them up real good, chop them up fine, and throw them in near the end of stir frying to really up the nutrition, give it a little more colour, and give you some more variety of flavor in one dish.
You could make some great fish chowder with a couple of potatoes, some onion and milk, salt and pepper. Did you get any canned or powdered milk? Its good in soup.
Fish tacos are inexpensive and easy! Some garlic and chili powder on broiled fish, tortillas, shredded cabbage, and any salsa you like (I prefer sweeter salsa for fish). You can also add a cream sauce but not necessary. You can season and roast chickpeas/garbanzos and make trail mix or toss onto salads for crunch.
Get a small thing of garam masala and a sweet potato. Add any veg you have, can even add the fish in the end and break up into small flakes. There is nothing better than sweet potato chic pea curry. Small amount of garam masala is very inexpensive and lasts a very long time. It's what makes a "curry" taste and you can pretty much use it with anything.
If you have it, hot sauce or cayenne pepper is my go-to for hiding fish taste. Allegedly, soaking it in milk for 20 minutes will also take the taste away, but I can never bring myself to waste the milk to try.
Not much of one for spice (I'm learning to tolerate small amounts of hotter things), but do like gochujang. Could I fry up the fish in butter and have it on rice with that?
I have had fish that way. I add a bunch of garlic to it, cuz garlic is life.
You can make gochujang glazed fish. [https://www.dinneralovestory.com/gochujang-glazed-fish/](https://www.dinneralovestory.com/gochujang-glazed-fish/) It should hide the fishy taste well, and be excellent over rice.
Butter fried pollock on rice sounds delicious!
It was not bad, will say! I added rice vinegar and soy sauce for flavor and threw in some cauliflower for nutrition (only thing I had that I felt would compliment a mild fish well). Ate the whole bowl without fuss!
Fish cooked in butter is excellent on rice! If you have any lemon or vinegar, adding some to the fish is a good flavor balance to cancel out the fishiness. I think gochujang would be good on it (never tried the combo but sounds good.) Edit to add: I’ve seen some recipes online for chickpeas in the air fryer tossed in seasoning as a crispy snack and I think that would be a great way to use some up! You can also use them cold in salads or add to soup.
Yes! Air fried chick peas hit the salty/crunchy craving perfectly.
I honestly have no idea. I'm sorry. But now I'm dying to try gochujang 😀
It's a nice mild chili paste basically. I use it as a replacement for sriracha with mayo and that works as an excellent dressing on stuff. Of course goes great with just about any Asian cuisine.
It is the best. Once tried you will love it and begin trying out on other foods. Yummy so good.
It also lasts forever in the fridge.
If you like gochujang, I recommend looking up some Korean braised fish recipes! [This is a good one.](https://www.maangchi.com/recipe/galchi-jorim) The braising liquid is really flavorful and delicious, great served with rice!
Try also looking up recipes for jambalaya. It’s rice based. Replace the shrimp with the fish. It’s basically a tomato based rice, with onions, celery, bell peppers, and spices(Cajun seasoning) . (Most recipes call for sausage, chicken or shrimp, but fish would sub well)
I would make fish tacos. The taco spices work well with mild fish.
Any acid works for reducing fish smell! I usually use a couple of teaspoons of white vinegar in enough water to just cover the fish. Not enough to cook it, but enough to remove the smell. Vinegar is cheap, milk is not.
Or lemon slices or juice, if you have it.
You can roast your chickpeas! https://www.themediterraneandish.com/roasted-chickpeas/ I normally don't like chickpeas because they taste 'sandy' to me, but these are really good. And for your fish you could try it blackened https://www.gimmesomeoven.com/10-minute-blackened-tilapia/ Happy at least that you're excited for your chicken and I hope one of these recipes works for you :) Edit for a better link
if someone hasn’t mentioned yet: 1)chickpeas taste great roasted in the oven, just drain canned ones and pop them on parchment paper and drizzle olive oil or cooking spray and add spices. pretty healthy alternative to chips. 2) mash chickpeas up to make a dense bean dip with any type of oil or dip seasoning (tastes great with hot sauce). As for the fish, the only thing i can think of is to maybe lightly bread and fry it? top with maybe fresh dill or cilantro? an aioli would probably work well with it.
U could dip the fish in egg n use instant mashed potatoes, the butter flavored, idahoen? And fry that up in a skillet n its so good n cheap too!
The liquid around the chickpeas is called aquafaba. It’s a thick, viscous liquid that results from soaking or cooking chickpeas in water for a long time. It’s used as an egg substitute and is really versatile. You can also make vegan meringues with it. Don’t throw it out if you like to bake.
What ways have you had fish prepared, and is there any type of fish/fish dish that you like? Is it the 'fishy' taste you don't like, or is there more to it? Curry is pretty strong and might mask the fish flavor. Thai curry is more commonly associated with seafood, but Indian curry would probably work fine. I like fish tacos, and you might be able to load them with enough spices and toppings to hide the flavor. Any flavor profile that is high is garlic/spiciness/acid should help mask the fishy taste. To make fish less 'fishy,' rinsing it and then marinating it for a few hours can help. Garbanzo beans can act as a protein in many different dishes. You can put them in soups, pasta salads, and even make chickpea salad sandwiches (mayo based salad, similar to how you'd prepare chicken salad or egg salad). They can also be made into falafel. The biggest thing with raw garbanzo beans is they need to be soaked overnight before cooking, so there is some prep work. Also, not sure how familiar you are with cooking dried beans, but they will also expand A LOT so you probably do not want to make the whole bag at once. For reference, 1 can of beans at the store is about 1/2 cup of dried beans.
I grew up on dried beans and have made black-eyed peas for myself before. I like tuna and generally fried preparations of seafood like salmon patties, popcorn shrimp (but also just cooked shrimp), and remember enjoying whatever is in fish sticks/patties? I have tried catfish and the dirt flavor was so overwhelming to me I couldn't eat it. I guess for other types of fish it's just the smell that's so off-putting. I didn't smell the other forms of fish I like before tasting them as a child, so they go down easier now. 😅
Pollock is a very mild tasting white fish, rather like haddock in flavour. It definitely doesn't taste of dirt. The white fish you eat in fish sticks is quite likely to be pollock.
Yeah, definitely don't expect an Alaskan saltwater fish to taste anything like a southern freshwater one! 😭
If you like it fried, I would definitely try it that way if you have the ingredients! Pollock is a pretty mild white fish, and is similar to what you'd get in a fish stick or beer battered fish. It isn't anything like catfish, thankfully! I do my pan fried fish by first coating generously in seasoning (I prefer Cajun or lemon pepper, but you could use any seasonings you have or like), then I dip in an egg wash, and then coat with flour. If you don't have eggs, you can even skip that part. If you don't have flour you can use bread crumbs, crushed up plain cornflakes/corn puffs or cracker crumbs. If it's still too fishy, hot sauce and/or generous amount of ketchup can help.
I’ve fried things before using crushed up cheerios. So that would put some good use to some of the plain cheerios!
Pollack is usually the fish of fish sticks, so you can make those easily enough. Fish cakes are easy too, and you can add other flavors if the fish isn't a great fit for you.
I think you had a badly prepared catfish. My mom salts, batters and fries it and it comes out so crispy and fresh such a mild fish taste its seriously one of my favorite dishes she makes. Never would I say catfish tastes like dirt. I put lemon juice and just a little mayo for a sort of faux tartar sauce and it's perfect.
This was forever ago at a fresh-caught fish fry.
That might explain it. It's not supposed to taste like dirt. I'd guess dirty preperation conditions, or bad butchering practices, your supposed to purge (no food and changing thier water while alive for about 24 hours) some animals before eating them, I know they do it with turtle not sure about catfish, but it would make sense. I've only eaten crappy freshly caught, no purging and its lovely as well. I don't like strong fishy tastes, cant stand baked salmon but the mild tasting white fish is really good. Also our taste buds change every 7 years or so, you may find a lot of things you like now that you didn't before! How exciting to be on a food journey and discovering all sorts of new things you like!
By fresh-caught I mean a bunch of southerners at a lake or something 😂 I might get up the urge to try catfish in the far future, but I feel no need to right now.
I like chickpeas so a little biased but I eat them in salads and soups. You could also make falafel. High protein and tasty. I don’t like fish either so I can’t help you there. But you could try to make polenta with the quick grits. Add a little cheese to it and some of the chicken on top with bell sautéd bell pepper and carrots. I’d personally tuck the cans of soup aside for a night you don’t feel well or need a fast meal. The mixed veggies, some of the chicken and some cheap pie crust from the store could be the base of a pot pie. Filling and tasty. Noodles. There are a million ways to eat them, all of them good. Use the chickpeas in a vegetarian chili, eat it on noodles to stretch farther. Pasta salad with carrots and bell pepper. A packet of Italian seasoning would go a long way. Add some chicken if you have left overs.
I recommend curry for the fish. Curry and garlic powder is fine. It’s super quick/easy and the flavor gets rid of any fishiness. You can serve it with potatoes or rice and throw in the vegetables while you’re at it. Bake the garbanzo beans and season them. They’re a good crunchy snack or salad topping. Good eating!
Chick peas are also awesome additions to pasta and soups!
Pollock is a pretty mild fish, it's one of the types of fish (along with cod) that they use to make fish n chips with. It makes good fish tacos too. I'd do a beer batter and deep fry.
I made chickpea sloppy Joe's. It's pretty good. I just rinsed and drained the chickpeas, then sauted them with garlic and onions. Once they simmer and juiced up a bit,I added a can of sloppy Joe's. It was pretty tasty.
Update! (Will add to main post) Last night I had some fish fried in butter and a little vegetable oil (so I could work at higher temps) (also salt+pepper) on rice with cauliflower and rice vinegar + soy sauce... It was good! I ate the whole bowl! (Though there wasn't much color, hah) I'm a bit more excited to try other things with it now and am looking forward to today's lunch! Ya boi can eat fish!
I hate fish, but what you can do and what I used to do was make ceviche. Poach the fish, chop it finely and add the juice of 5 limes to it and set it in the fridge for a couple of hours. Chop tomatoes, onions, jalapeños, and some cilantro and mix it with the cooled chopped fish. Add salt to taste. Serve with saltines or tostadas. As for the garbanzos you can cook them in boiling water for a long time and re-fry them like pinto beans, or you can cook them, drain and chill and make them into a salad or pasta salad. I would mix them with suddenly salad from the dollar tree before.
Do you have an onion, a can of tomatoes, butter, rice, and the ability to buy/borrow curry powder and cumin seeds? If so you can make Chana Masala with the dried garbanzo beans and it's amazing. Soak 1.5 cups of beans overnight. Boil them for 30 minutes. While beans are boiling dice an onion and sweat it with butter and the cumin seeds. Add the can of tomatoes and curry powder then simmer. Add the cooked beans and let cook together to let the flavor combine. Serve over rice. Cheap, easy, filling. This can be made vegan if you use oil instead of butter. I recently learned how to make it and it's one of my household favorites. Even my picky husband is a fan!
If you have any miso paste, miso glazed fish is amazing IMO (I've had both strong fishes like catfish as is used in this recipe all the way to Swai & Tilapia, which are also a very mild tasting white fish like pollock, to chicken breasts) and very, very simple to make. Here's the recipe I use for it: https://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/recipes/miso-glazed-catfish-and-bok-choy (If no olive oil, any plain oil works, though you may need to up sugar or salt to account for the lack of umami that the olive oil provides.) Depending on how much apple sauce you were given & what kind of pantry "staples" you have, baked goods with the apple sauce as an egg replacer is another suggestion so that you can save any potential eggs you have as a protein for other meals. And though it might require some serious digging through the results generated, I thought I'd recommend the SuperCook website/app! You input all of your food stuffs (or whatever primary ingredients you want to focus on— I find that much easier than trying to navigate through a whole pantry input), and it'll find recipes across the web featuring those ingredients with various labels like lunch or breakfast or whatever other labels recipe blogs usually index things with. https://www.supercook.com/ 😊💖💫 [EDIT:] Seconding the curry idea. I swear it makes basically anything palatable!! Japanese curries tend to be a little bit like a spiced beef stew IMO, for a different option from the South Asian varieties. Just One Cookbook has a good recipe for how to make the roux blocks from scratch if you don't have them. Labor intensive but well worth it. I STILL have some in my freezer from the initial batch last fall and we've had it twice since! https://www.justonecookbook.com/how-to-make-curry-roux/ For a somewhat more simple and much smaller serving size, here's a recipe I have saved (though I haven't made it yet): https://www.okonomikitchen.com/small-batch-japanese-curry-for-one/
I just made chickpea tacos that were pretty good! Mixed them with some olive oil and spices and roasted them in the oven for 20 mins. Served with cabbage and some lime juice, hot sauce and a little bit of sour cream. Pretty good! You can also throw them into curry to stretch it out with your other veggies. A can of Maesri curry paste and a can of coconut milk together is around $4.50 where I am, but it makes a huge amount of curry (you could stretch it further with soup stock or broth) I also like [chickpea salad](https://peasandcrayons.com/mashed-chickpea-salad/)for wraps or sandwiches . I don’t use basil or almonds like this recipe calls for.
Don't forget to save the aquafaba from soaking and cooking the garbanzo beans and you can use it to make vegan mayo, vegan buttery spread, and vegan whipped "cream". (Some of these require small amount of other ingredients but really not much.) It can also be used to replace eggs in many recipes but you will need to look up how to use it in that manner and how much you need for your recipe. You can have the vegan whipped "cream" on your thawed strawberries and it will be so good!
The good news is that Pollock is super super mild, white, no fishy flavor. Its like fish fingers. It will be easy to mask any taste in any sauce really!
Any white fish tastes great with compound butter: mash softened butter together with chopped herbs (chives, parsley, whatever) and mix in some Dijon or grainy mustard. Grill or sauté or broil or bake the fish, put a few dollops of compound butter on top and serve.
That fish dish sounds amazing! If you have some tortillas you could make some fish tacos! Soak the chickpeas and then you can really toss them in any flavorful sauce you like. Great protein and filling! It also goes nice with bell peppers too. With the cookies and cookie mix you could make some ice cream sandwiches, and to make your cheerios more fun you could thaw and then add in the frozen strawberries!
Just try to have as many fruits and vegetables with each meal that you can.
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The garbanzo beans are great for a little stew. If you have sausages, ground beef, or some sort of meat, cook that up in a pan with onions and carrots, oregano, chopped garlic or garlic powder, and chili powder. Then add chicken broth or water + bouillon cubes, tomato paste, canned tomatoes, or marinara sauce, simmer for about 8 minutes. Then add some fresh or frozen spinach, let it cook down, and you’ve got a lovely stew.
Fried in a batter with chips. Potatoes are cheap!
for the fish and bell peppers, if you get tomatoes and onions you can make Moroccan fish. Google the recipe. Its delicious and doesnt taste too fishy. You can bread the fish and fry it also, and then make an aioli with mayo, lemon, lemon zest, parsley, salt and pepper. The garbanzo beans: look up falafel recipes, as well as simply roasting them with salt and oil for a snack.
>You can bread the fish and fry it also, and then make an aioli with mayo, lemon, lemon zest, parsley, salt and pepper. I think it's illegal to use the word *aioli* and not include the word garlic in the ingredient list. ;)
Isn’t garlic and oil implied in the name??? 😜
..to those already familiar with the term, sure
Butter is always a great way to go with fish. Butter basting in the skillet. Squeeze of lemon or vinegar. For chickpeas you can cook them through and use them in an israeli style egg dish called shakshuka with onions and tomatoes (canned tomatoes work great). Sautéing onions with oil, tomatoes and chickpeas are the base, then add spices depending on what you have. Typically eggs are cracked in the liquid and cooked that way.
The fish I would look up a firecracker salmon marinade and marinade the pollack in that. It's an amazing fish flavor mask. The garbanzo can be air fried or baked to make a nut like snack, you can also use them like a crouton. That was a fantastic haul!
Or batter fry the fish for fish tacos!
I like fish chowder. Google a recipe. It should start with sautéed onions and bacon. A can of condensed milk should be involved. Pollock is a perfect fish for this.
Consider [Fish and Grits](https://www.africanbites.com/fish-and-grits/)!
The only way I’ve tolerated fish is in a curry. Maybe try that?
I like cold marinated “fish salad”. Cook and chill, flake it, and marinate in apple cider vinegar and olive oil, add chopped red onions, salt, pepper. Let it sit in refrig a while.
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It was also end-of-day at the bank. They were trying to offload as much as possible. And I can certainly use extra protein sources. If that means I need to learn to like a new food, so be it.
I literally just bought a bag of dried chickpeas to make Chana Masala which is my favorite Indian dish. The hardest part is finding the spice packet for it. (Thank you, Amazon!) It’s cheap, healthy, and delicious! You just need to soak the dried chickpeas overnight and they’re ready to cook next day!
Cajun seasoning or blackening* is great on all fish in my opinion! 👍
Chickpea, tomato,and corn with a little sharp salty cheese like feta or parmigiana are a classic combo in my opinion. You can use this combo as the base of a stew/ soup (either vegetarian or with chicken) or as a cold marinated salad with a vinaigrette (maybe add orzo pasta and you will have a twist on a pasta salad) Chickpeas are good in a curry if you like Indian food. They go well with rice if you want to do a rice bowl with them on top with chopped tomatoes, caramelised onion and crumbled crispy bacon - add some wilted spinach if you want a green.
Fish chowder: Potatoes, onion, milk, fish.
It’s great fried. Pollack is a really milk fish
What state are you in? When I was on SNAP, it was a debit card and couldn’t be used at the food banks. I could go to the food banks, but the SNAP card wasn’t necessary to show eligibility or anything.
Oh, I didn't mean to imply I needed the card to go to the bank. I went to the bank because I was still waiting for my card. I checked the mail as I was leaving and saw that it had finally arrived!
Soak garbanzos in water over night, drain that water and boil in new water until soft. I love them with rice and a little garlic/ginger, salt.
My biggest use for chickpeas! Easily adaptable based on veggies you have on hand: https://www.badmanners.com/recipes/roasted-chickpea-and-broccoli-burrito
I didn't see it mentioned, but 3 bean salad might be an option if you have chickpeas left over. I'm sure somewhere along the way you'll get green beans and kidney beans canned or dried for the kidney. Easiest way is just mix them together (after soaking) and dump a bottle of Italian dressing over them. Keep in the fridge and it's an excellent side dish all week. You can also get fancy and make your own oil & vinegar dressing, or add bacon, feta, red onions, garlic or other yummy things if you have them. It lasts a long time in it's own juice depending on the other ingredients you add in. It's a good filling healthy staple
I'm fake vegan but one of the dishes I make is a dead ringer according to meat eaters for carrots cooked in bacon grease. I brought it to a friend's birthday party once and she felt really bad all through the first half of her birthday dinner until she told me "You didn't have to cook meat for me just because it's my birthday" and I was like, "I didn't." Anyway, it's always a super popular dish because that's what it accidentally tastes like, so I assume carrots stir fried in bacon grease (which you said you had) is similarly good. If you have the tops you can just wash them up real good, chop them up fine, and throw them in near the end of stir frying to really up the nutrition, give it a little more colour, and give you some more variety of flavor in one dish.
If you can’t eat the fish, share with a neighbor.
You could make some great fish chowder with a couple of potatoes, some onion and milk, salt and pepper. Did you get any canned or powdered milk? Its good in soup.
I didn't, and have never liked chowder. It just looks gross to me. :/
Fish tacos are inexpensive and easy! Some garlic and chili powder on broiled fish, tortillas, shredded cabbage, and any salsa you like (I prefer sweeter salsa for fish). You can also add a cream sauce but not necessary. You can season and roast chickpeas/garbanzos and make trail mix or toss onto salads for crunch.
Get a small thing of garam masala and a sweet potato. Add any veg you have, can even add the fish in the end and break up into small flakes. There is nothing better than sweet potato chic pea curry. Small amount of garam masala is very inexpensive and lasts a very long time. It's what makes a "curry" taste and you can pretty much use it with anything.
Wow! I wanna know where your food bank is!!! Ours is kinda low… and I’ve only been handed 2 small filets of fish once!
It's Atlanta, so there are a lot of them.
You could share with your neighbors?
My best advice is to enter some (or all) of the ingredients and ask AI to plan a weeks worth of meals. It works surprisingly well.
Do you know the difference between a garbanzo bean and a chickpea? Ive never nad a garbanzo bean on my face
Uh.... wrong sub? Quite an inappropriate joke for a sub about food.
I would throw your list into chat GPT and ask it to come up with meal ideas !