Practical Lunch Recipes for Every Day
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Practical Lunch Recipes for Every Day

A useful lunch should fit the place and time available. Choose a light salad, a portable bowl, a reheatable soup or a warm family meal that can be prepared without disrupting the day.

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Thinly sliced zucchini carpaccio with lemon, Parmesan cheese and herbs
20 min Summer

Courgette Carpaccio with Lemon

Chop zucchini very thinly and marinate them with lemon, olive oil, capers, Parmesan, pine nuts and mint. Marinate zucchini slices only briefly and salt them on the plate so that they are pliable but not watery.

Grilled peaches with burrata, rocket, basil and roasted pistachios
23 min Summer

Grilled peaches with burrata

Halved peaches are grilled briefly on the cut surface and served warm with burrata, rocket, pistachio, basil and lemon-honey dressing. Use ripe but firm peaches and add burrata only on the plate so that fruit and cheese retain their texture.

Young carrot tarte with herbs, cream cheese cream and golden brown puff pastry
55 min Spring

Baby carrot tart with herbs

Puff pastry is spread with cream cheese and egg cream, topped with young carrots shortly before cooking and baked with mustard, honey and herbs until golden brown. Steam the carrots before topping and leave a rim of the pastry free so that the tarte rises crispy.

Golden brown spinach-feta strudel with herbs and creamy filling
1 hr Spring

Spinach and feta strudel

Let the spinach fall together with the onion and garlic, squeeze it out and roll it in a strudel or filo dough with feta, ricotta and egg. Dry and cool the spinach filling, spread the dough layers thinly with butter and seam down.

Lemon-salmon with green pea puree, dill and lemon slices
40 min Spring

Lemon salmon with pea purée

Salmon fillets are cooked juicy with lemon, dill and olive oil in the oven; briefly boiled peas are pureed with broth, cream and butter. Cook the peas only briefly and remove the salmon from the oven as soon as the centre is still slightly translucent.

radish curd with golden brown baked potatoes, chives and spring onions
50 min Spring

Radish quark with baked potatoes

Cook young potatoes in the oven with olive oil until golden brown and serve with a cool curd of radishes, yoghurt, chives, spring onions and lemon. Roast the potatoes with the cut surface down and stir in the salted radish curd just before eating so that it does not become watery.

Creamy wild garlic risotto with peas, parmesan cheese and fresh herbs
45 min Spring

Wild garlic risotto with peas

Onion and risotto rice are sweated through and cooked little by little with hot vegetable broth; peas, finely chopped wild garlic, butter and Parmesan cheese complete the rice. Stir in wild garlic only after cooking and let the risotto rest briefly away from the heat to preserve colour, fragrance and creamy bite.

Asparagus and strawberry salad with goat cheese, rocket and walnuts as a fresh spring salad
28 min Spring

Asparagus and strawberry salad with goat cheese

Green asparagus is fried briefly and served with strawberries, rocket, goat cheese, walnuts and lemon-honey dressing. Let the asparagus cool and add the strawberries and dressing just before eating to keep the salad fresh.

Bean stew served with bacon homemade
1 hr 10 min German

Bean stew with bacon

Drop the bacon and sauté the onion. Add potatoes and stock and cook for 10 minutes.

Herring salad with beetroot served homemade
25 min German

Herring salad with beetroot

Chop the matjes, beetroot, apple, cucumber and onion into small pieces. Mix the yoghurt, mayonnaise, cucumber water, pepper and dill.

Cucumber salad served with homemade dill
15 min German

Cucumber salad with dill

Slice the cucumbers thinly. Season the cucumbers lightly and leave to stand for 10 minutes.

Coleslaw homemade served
25 min German

German coleslaw

Finely plane the cabbage and knead with salt until it softens.

Homemade mustard eggs with potatoes
40 min German

Mustard eggs with potatoes

Peel potatoes and cook in salted water. Cook eggs until waxy or hard, cool in cold water, then peel.

Sweet turnip stew served homemade
1 hr 20 min German

Rutabaga stew

Sauté onion and bacon in oil. Add turnip, potatoes, carrots, broth and marjoram.

Pichelsteiner stew served homemade
2 hr German

Pichelsteiner stew

Brown meat in portions. Place meat, potatoes and vegetables in a saucepan.

Matjes housewife style homemade served
20 min German

Matjes herring in cream sauce

Mix the yoghurt, sour cream, cucumber water, mustard, dill and pepper. Finely chop the apple, onion and cucumber.

Berlin potato soup served homemade
1 hr German

Berlin potato soup

Sauté the onion and soup greens in butter. Add potatoes, broth and marjoram and cook until tender.

Swabian potato salad served homemade
50 min German

Swabian potato salad

Cook potatoes as peeled potatoes, let evaporate briefly and peel while still warm. Cut potatoes into thin slices and put them in a bowl.

Homemade dumplings served in broth
35 min German

Maultaschen in broth

Bring the stock to the boil with the carrot, leek and celery and simmer gently for a few minutes. Season the stock with salt, pepper and nutmeg.