Cookbook:Bachelor Fish Stew

Bachelor Fish Stew is appallingly easy to make, very flexible, and very nutritious (due to the oily fish, beans, and tomatoes).

Ingredients

 * 1 tin (400 g / 240 g drained) beans (kidney, soya, black eye, chickpeas, etc.) in brine
 * 1 tin (400 g) tomatoes (chopped or plum)
 * 1 tin (120 g) mackerel fillets in tomato sauce
 * 1 tsp curry powder (or to taste)
 * Salt
 * Pepper
 * Anything else to taste

Procedure

 * 1) Open all the tins. Drain the liquid from the beans.
 * 2) Add all ingredients into a saucepan.
 * 3) Bring to the boil, then cover and simmer, stirring occasionally, until hot enough to eat (5–10 minutes).

Notes, tricks, and variations

 * Unless you add additional ingredients that require additional cooking times, no long cooking is necessary because all the tinned food should be cooked already.
 * You can add anything that can cook by being boiled - an egg, vegetables chopped to about 1 inch, smallish broccoli florets, etc. Make sure to simmer long enough to cook the additions—probably 20 minutes will do.
 * Any oily fish will work, like sardines, etc.


 * If you're feeling advanced, chop and fry an onion in the saucepan with a knob of butter and the curry powder before adding everything else.


 * Serve with boiled pasta to feed more people. Cook the pasta separately in a large pot of salted water.