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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Risoni salad with chickpeas, cucumber, tomatoes and fresh herbs
30 min Mediterranean

Risoni salad with chickpeas

Risoni are cooked tender but firm, lukewarmly marinated with lemon dressing and after cooling mixed with chickpeas, tomatoes, cucumber and parsley. Drain the small noodles well and add cucumber later so that the salad remains loose instead of watery.

Pesto potato salad with rucola, cherry tomatoes and pine nuts
40 min Mediterranean

Pesto potato salad with arugula

Small potatoes are cooked in the shell, marinated still warm with white wine vinegar and after cooling mixed with pesto, tomatoes, rucola and pine nuts. First pull pesto under the lukewarm potatoes and add rocket immediately before serving to keep it fresh.

Cold melon feta soup with mint, cucumber and crumbled feta
1 hr 20 min Summer

Cold melon feta soup

Watermelon and cucumber are pureed cold with lime, mint and olive oil; crumbled feta comes on it only when served. Remove seeds and pre-cool all ingredients; dose salt sparingly because feta already brings strong spice.

Grilled cheese salad with nectarines, rucola and honey lemon dressing
23 min Mediterranean

Grilled halloumi salad with nectarines

Grilled cheese and nectarine clefts are briefly fried and served warmly with rucola, cucumber and lemon honey dressing. Grilled cheeses are finally roasted and served immediately, while the nectarines are only supposed to get strong barbecue traces.

Focaccia sandwich with antipasti vegetables, mozzarella, rucola and pesto
15 min Italian

Focaccia sandwich with antipasti

Focaccia sandwich with antipasti is a fast Italian sandwich with pesto, grilled vegetables, mozzarella and rucola. Important is a juicy but not dripping filling.

Tomato burrata bread salad with roasted bread, basil and olive oil
28 min Summer

Tomato Burrata Bread Salad

Toasted ciabatta cubes are mixed with ripe tomatoes, red onion, basil and balsamico and served with burrata. Let bread and tomato dressing be pulled only briefly; open burrata on the plate so that the bread still has crispy edges.

Melon prosciutto salad with rucola, basil and lime dressing
15 min Summer

Melon prosciutto salad

Melon wedges are served with prosciutto, rucola and basil and drizzled with lime-honey dressing. Cool melon well and cut just before serving; do not leave prosciutto and dressing lying on it for long.

Cold avocado cucumber soup with herbs, yoghurt and lime
1 hr Summer

Cold avocado cucumber soup

Avocado, cucumber, yoghurt, lime juice, dill, water and olive oil are finely pureed cold and then tasted thoroughly. Pre-cool all ingredients well and add only so much water that the soup remains creamy; lime at the same time protects the green colour.

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

Zucchini carpaccio with lemon

The courgettes are thinly sliced and marinated with lemon, olive oil, capers, parmesan, pine nuts and mint. Marinate the courgette slices only briefly and salt on the plate to make them flexible but not watery.

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

Grilled peaches with burrata

Halved peaches are briefly grilled on the cut surface and warmly prepared with burrata, rucola, pistachios, basil and lemon honey dressing. Use ripe but firm peaches and add burrata on the plate to keep fruit and cheese texture.

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

Baby carrot tart with herbs

Puff pastry is coated with a cream cheese egg cream, covered with young carrots and baked with mustard, honey and herbs golden brown. Let the carrots evaporate before filling and leave a dough edge free so that the tart rises crispy.

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

Spinach feta strudel

Spinach is allowed to fall together with onion and garlic, squeezed dry and rolled with feta, ricotta and egg in strudel or filo pastry. The spinach filling must be dry and cooled; spread the dough layers thinly with butter and place the seam downwards.

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

Lemon salmon with pea purée

Salmon fillets are juicyly cooked in the oven with lemon, dill and olive oil; in addition, short-cooked peas are finely pureed with broth, cream and butter. Cook the peas only briefly and remove the salmon from the oven as soon as the core is still slightly translucent.

Radishes quark with golden brown oven potatoes, chives and spring onions
50 min Spring

Radish quark with baked potatoes

Young potatoes are cooked with olive oil in the oven golden brown and served with a cool quark of radishes, yoghurt, chives, spring onions and lemon. Roast potatoes with the cut area downwards and stir the salted radishes quark just before eating so that it does not become watery.

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

Wild garlic risotto with peas

Onion and risotto rice are gradually sautéed in glass and cooked with hot vegetable broth; peas, finely sliced bear's garlic, butter and parmesan complete the rice. Stir in the bear's garlic only after cooking and let the risotto rest short away from the heat so that colour, scent and creamy bite are preserved.

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

Asparagus strawberry salad with goat cheese

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

Bean stew served with bacon homemade
1 hr 10 min German

Bean stew with bacon

Leave out bacon and sauté onion. Add potatoes and broth and cook for 10 minutes.

Herringssalat with red beet served homemade
25 min German

Herring salad with beetroot

Cut the matjes, beetroot, apple, cucumber and onion. Mix yoghurt, mayonnaise, cucumber water, pepper and dill.