My grocery bills have doubled in the last few years, so I’m on a mission to see if I can feed a family of 4 a fine dining restaurant-worthy meal for under $40.
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Chicken: https://www.billyparisi.com/lemon-butter-chicken/
Potatoes: https://www.billyparisi.com/fondant-potatoes/
Broccolini: https://www.billyparisi.com/garlic-broccolini-recipe/
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→ Ingredients
Chicken
• 2 chicken breasts, 12 to 14 ounces each
• ½ cup all-purpose flour
• 4 tablespoons olive oil
• 4 thinly sliced garlic cloves
• 1 ½ cups chicken stock
• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
• juice of 1 lemon, about 3 to 4 tablespoons
• coarse salt and freshly cracked pepper to taste
• minced fresh parsley for garnish, optional
Broccolini
• 2 bunches of broccolini
• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 4 thinly sliced garlic cloves
• 1 to 1 ½ tablespoons lemon juice
• coarse salt and pepper to taste
Potatoes
• 6 medium to large russet potatoes
• 3 tablespoons olive oil
• 4 tablespoons unsalted butter
• 4 smashed garlic cloves
• 8 to 12 sprigs of fresh thyme
• 1 cup chicken stock
• coarse salt and freshly cracked pepper
Sabayon
• 4 large egg yolks
• ¾ cup granulated sugar
• ¾ cup dry white wine
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Chicken Kiev: https://youtu.be/J3K8VRm27Ao
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45 Comments
Beautifully executed, Chef, and well within the skill set of most home cooks. Also, nutritious & delicious. Bravo!
Excellent recipes, Many thanks.
what's with the backward baseball cap ?
Looks delicious but my kids would never eat it but i will make it for the adults.
I just planted some rapini a couple of days ago for autumn!
Shallow are $6.99lb. 3 lg shallot $8.49. Thanks Chef for giving us budget friendly meals
I love this. Very helpful.
You’re only about 20 miles from where we live. Who knew?
$40.00 for 4 people is extremely affordable, considering the price in restaurants. Excellent portions and dessert!❤
Chef, love your vids, your recipes are terrific! This is a great series, keep 'em coming. Can't wait to make this one!!
Thank you for doing this video – I love these videos from you. I've made every one of them!
As you always do, another helpful and informative video. I’m glad to see you addressed the topic of “timing” while making this video. I watch a lot of cooks on YT and rarely does anyone discuss timing. I find it to be the hardest part of cooking a meal. I always do my prep first, but timing 2 or 3 components of a meal, by one person is a challenge. I would like to see more videos from you on this topic if you can. I think it would be very helpful to a lot of home cooks. Thanks for your wonderful channel. I was watching well before you hit 100k viewers. Please keep it up. We appreciate you 😎🌵🌴
You're in Crown Point? You're paying for Chicago over there too. 🙂
If you are over twelve years old, you shouldn’t wear your cap backwards.
The number one way to save money on groceries is not to shop at Whole Foods – aren't there many people who mockingly call the store "Whole Pay cheque"! Just go to your local cheaper grocery store and buy the best quality ingredients you can where it makes a difference, and by cheap, grocery store brands where it doesn't. But I get it – I see from your comments that you went to WF because they were the only store in your area that got back to you and let you film there. I get it that WF has better quality, but for me shopping there is for a treat only, not my daily groceries.
My husband loves Sabayon sauce. Can't wait to make it for him
Thank you, I love your channel
Thanks!
Whats insane is that is hard to feed a family of 4 for $40! We are talking about one meal. If we spend $40 a day for dinner and the average household income is ~59,000 we are talking about people spending a quarter of their income on dinner each year. Ridiculous
Chicken paprikash over spaetzel would be a good option for under $40. If you haven't done a video on that let's see your take on the dish. Gotta be my favorite chicken dish!
Fan of the channel, not a fan of this format. Feels artificial and forced. I do like the bit where you time out the cook; that's super helpful and informative.
What town in Indiana ? I live in Crown Point ?
You rockin, Chef!
This introduction was so real. Thank you.
C'mon chef! In italian its called zabaglione.
For being in a small town in Indiana you’re grocery store is probably as big as four or five of mine combined and way better options
Awesome! I love your channel and am endlessly inspired.
One thing you shopped at one of the most expensive stores around
If you went to shoprite you would have spent $25. Whole foods is too expensive.
Billy, you're over forty. Don't wear your hat backwards Dude
This sir is one of your best vids. Quality family meal on a budget and a reminder to support your local restaurants if you can. I really enjoyed this one.
A backwards hat is a American working class thing. Snobs can't understand it.
Really? Whole Foods? You would’ve been closer to $30 if you shopped in a normal store
Another fantastic meal! Thank you Chef 👍 😋
Thrilled you brought these back! Can’t wait to see if I can match this in NorCal.
Ummm no it's not. That's patently wrong. When you buy stock either in a can or the cartons you're paying out the nose to ship around a lot of heavy water, because that's what that is.
They buy the same boullion base that you get in the cubes, or the better than bouillon paste, and add water to it. You get a lot more for your money going with either of those than buying the ready to use stocks/broths off the shelf.
It's important to not shop at boogie grocery chains to save money n get most groceries for ur money
Nice fondant potatoes Billy!
In LA: 25$ for cocktail, 35$ salad, 50$ pasta…cooking becomes not only necessity but a wake up call for health. We are so used to convenience of eating prepared foods, frozen foods and processed crap. Honestly, after eating 99.99% of home cooked food, I look and feel like a better version of myself.
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You can buy a lot of this much less expensive at other storers.
looks delicious!
Love your recipes, but do you think you might have been able to do better with $40 if you went somewhere else other than Whole Foods?
You can make a lot of pizza for $40.
Hi Chef, I've been subscribed for about a year now, love them and have made about a third of them. I do the food shopping also and make 2 to 3 meals a week. These "Shop on a Budget " videos are the best, very helpful for ideas about the upcoming week. Thanks again 😊😊