I thought the lazy-part was that you don't buy any ingredients from the store before you need them in the cooking process?
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My lazy meal is a bit cost prohibitive if you don't have the equipment, but if you have an instant pot, a rice cooker, and an air fryer equivalent, it's super easy to make orange chicken with stir fry veggies, using all stuff you can get ready at the grocery store.
I just throw rice in the rice cooker, frozen veggies and about half a bottle of premade sauce (like $1 at Aldi) in the instant pot, and breaded chicken, like popcorn chicken, in the air fryer, then wait. Mix the chicken in with the veggies once it's cooked, and then serve over rice.
If you do non-breaded chicken, you can even cut out the air fryer, and just cook it with the veggies. Either way, you just have to set the instant pot to zero minutes at high pressure, and it'll be cooked
My go to lazy meal.
$5 Costco cooked rotisserie chicken. Pull the meat off the bones.
Frozen bell peppers/ onion mix
Fajita seasoning seasoning
1/2 cup Rice w/ a few spoonfuls of salsa, butter, add salt / pepper to taste
1 Can O beans.
Fry up the veggies w a little oil, add cooked chicken, season w fajita seasoning lightly, remove / put in a bowl.
In the same Pan as the chicken, cook the beans.
Takes like 10 minutes n u got fajitas with only 2 pans to clean. Can I make a way better version taking 5x as long? Certainly, but do I want to? Usually no.
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My lazy meal? Veggies bought pre-chopped, one chicken burger patty. 12 minutes cooked at 30% in the microwave.
I think there's an important distinction as to which meal, a lazy breakfast is a raw bagel, a lazy lunch is bread and deli meat (or microwaved single meal), dinner is frozen pizza or some rice and meatballs
Just steam and eat the onion, it's actually delicious
If you held a gun to my head and told me to eat an onion I would pull the trigger
My lazy meal is pasta with tomatoe sauce. Add basil and raw garlic if you get fancy with it :D Parmesan if you are the rich kind of fancy
Sriracha, mayo, bread, nooch
Yes chef
You people put in a lot of effort. My lazy meal is a can of chicken (the kind you don't have to use a can opener on) and as many raw vegetables and nuts as it takes.
If I want to put in some effort, pre cooked rice pouch, can of chicken, a can of vegetables, and a can of tomatoes. Anything more than that definitely isn't lazy.
I have so many categories of "lazy meal" because it all depends on what kind of lazy I'm feeling.
Don't want to stand around a hob or worry about burning something? Slow cooker mushroom rissoto or freezer soup (during the month I add odd bits of unused veg and fresh herbs into a zip lock to make vegetable soup with, this means on a lazy day in just dump the whole bag in, pour over some water, press a button and walk away)
Don't want to chop things? Roast sweet potato with canned corn and lebneh/yoghurt/sour cream (stab the yam with a fork and "roast" in the microwave for extra laziness)
Don't want to wash up crockery? Cous cous, Walnut, and cranberry/sultana warm salad (it can be prepared in the same bowl you eat from, which can also totally be a disposable container)
Don't want to wait for something to cook? A slab of cold Japanese tofu with pickled radish & carrot, cucumber, spring onion and whatever sauce (soy, ponzu, teriyaki, etc)
Another "quick cook" go to is what I call "fakers pho". I have pho stock cubes, and a ready to serve shiritaki hot pot noodles. So I just boil the kettle, pour the water over the noodles and cubes, add raw mushroom or tofu (if you had rotisserie chicken in the fridge that would be perfect to rip into) and rip up some coriander & spring onion from outside.
Then there's "don't want to do anything" which is a carton of up-and-go (a pre-made meal replacement shake basically) and a banana or raw carrot to munch on.
But at a certain point my laziness will be bad enough that "bedtime for dinner" sounds good to me.
There's different levels of lazy. If you can't bring yourself to chop an onion every once in a while, you probably just need to practice it a bit or something, because that shit isn't hard.
Some people are just so fast at cooking. My roommate makes the same food in a quarter of time I need and I guess it comes down to me spending so much time confused and doing unnecessary things.
I've heard this is what distinguishes a chef proper from a home cook. Sure, your average Joe can cook up something scrumptious, but it takes a chef to understand the logistics and timing to get things prepped just in time, getting plates made at the same time, and ultimately just having everything finished at the same time.
A lazy meal must have at most two items to clean up, including the cutlery
Being a bachelor, I often chop an onion and end up with like 4 or 5 meals worth of onion chops, so a lot of "lazy meals" are "get some chopped onion out of the fridge."