Making the Most of Frozen Vegetables | Struggle Meals

Summary by Krater

The host makes a budget-friendly chicken pot pie hotdish using tater tots, dark-meat chicken thighs, and a homemade cream sauce with frozen vegetables.

From the video

Answers: How do you make a chicken pot pie hotdish with tater tots?

• tater tot hotdish
• chicken pot pie recipe
• making roux
• making velouté
• budget-friendly meals

Ingredients

• 3.00 USD chicken thighs
• 0.03 USD vegetable oil
• salt
• pepper
• 0.12 USD garlic
• onion
• butter
• 0.18 USD thyme
• 0.05 USD flour
• stock
• milk
• 0.16 USD chicken bouillon cube
• frozen peas and carrots
• pearl onions
• 1.89 USD tater tots

What it concludes

• Chicken thighs are affordable and their dark meat holds its juiciness better than white meat.
• Frozen vegetables have a tiny window of seasonality and lock in delicious flavor and vitality in the freezer.
• Using frozen pearl onions saves time compared to peeling fresh ones and provides an acidic cut through the rich sauce.
• The total cost for the chicken pot pie tater tot hotdish is 1.37 USD.