Here are 5 quick ideas to take to the table for dinner if you are short on time and don't want to eat meat. Healthy, unusual and very tasty dishes!
Have you decided to reduce your meat consumption a little, but you no longer know what to cook as a main course for dinner, when you have little time to bring something good to the table?
Here are 5 ideas that are right for you. They are prepared in a short time and with few ingredients.
Poke with couscous
For a quick dinner, but at the same time rich, colorful and beautiful to serve, we definitely suggest you try poke, but with couscous instead of rice because it cooks earlier and if you are in a hurry or very hungry it is always the best solution.
Once the couscous has been tempered in hot water, let it cool and shell it with a fork.
Dress it with extra virgin olive oil and then add all the other cold ingredients: cherry tomatoes, edamame, smoked salmon, mixed seeds, avocado and if you also like a sweet note, add an exotic fruit like mango or pineapple.
Vegetable burger
When we talk about vegetable burgers we are talking about an infinite number of variations because you can prepare them with many types of legumes and vegetables.
A vegetarian burger that everyone always likes is that based on lentils which is prepared by blending 300 g of cooked and drained lentils, with a red onion, a carrot and a boiled potato.
Season with salt and pepper and then add some breadcrumbs to compact everything well.
You can cook them in the oven or in a pan and they are excellent to serve in the classic burger bun.
You can also make them with a more pink shade by adding some beetroot in the dough.
Baked feta
This recipe is prepared by adding a stick of feta cheese on a pan of vegetables cooked in the oven.
The pan can contain all the seasonal vegetables you prefer, or just cherry tomatoes.
The secret is to add the feta cheese at the end of cooking, when the vegetables are cooked and let everything go in the oven for 5 minutes, just long enough to soften the cheese, which in any case will not melt.
A real treat that can also be transformed into a sauce for pasta.
Hummus
Hummus is also a quick solution for a last minute dinner.
Prepare it with the classic chickpea hummus recipe, complete with tahini and garlic if you like and then serve it inside a wholemeal sandwich with vegetables, or on toasted bread.
Eggs in purgatory
Finally, we couldn't forget the eggs.
A quick way to prepare them as a main course for a really rich and tasty single dish is to add them as we did before with feta with vegetables in the oven or in a pan, or to a tomato sauce.
Eggs in purgatory are just that, eggs cooked in a simple tomato sauce and serve with bread or focaccia.
You can also prepare them in single-portion casseroles if you have guests.
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