Italy is the country of good cuisine and of the conviviality at the table, a place not only where we are nourished, but where conversations, knowledge, relationships and interweaving are born also on the social and human level. So much so that who eat alone, especially at the bar or restaurant, but also at home, once it was looked at wrong. Today less: it is more and more frequent to see or know people to have lunch or dinner in solitude, by necessity (for work) or by choice. Or because you are single!

Eat alone: ​​pros and cons

To be single He has his own pro and his versus, even at the table. Between pro, there is the possibility of staying in peacewithout necessarily having to make conversation; between versus, there is the fact of eat fast, risking to slow down the digestion and above all the little desire to treat yourself well, avoiding to go to cook and prefer to open the packet of sausages, taken directly from the fridge and eaten with awe in front of the TV.

Quick, but healthy recipes

To eat badly It is a risk that you can run, being alone at the table: no single would think of making ragout or risotto, dishes that require a long preparation and it is worth cooking if you are at least two. But it is not the rule that a single person should only eat things already packaged, at full speed. Eat well you can, even by yourself: here are some gluttonous recipe, which requires little time, is easy to make and above all healthy.

Chicken

The chicken is a lean meat, easy to cook: just brown it in a pan with a little oil and add a salad as a side dish and the dish is done. But a really tasty and curious recipe can be the Swiss chicken and spinach: just chop the breast together with boiled spinach and form a steak, then brown it and then accompany it with wholemeal bread and a mixed salad. It takes a few minutes and is also good cold.

Meatballs

Meatballs are the ideal dish to recycle leftovers or to enjoy the grind that has lain in the freezer for a while. As rarely in the freezer of a single you will see some minced meat, we suggest you vegetable meatballs based on zucchini: boil the zucchini and potatoes, crush them and reduce them to a pulp, then together with an egg, mix them and form balls, to be covered in breadcrumbs. Fry them in peanut oil and serve them with a salad. Even these can be prepared the night before, to bring them to the office tomorrow.

Sea bass

If you often eat at home and do not want to cook, try the sea bass: buy it already filleted and then steam it. No hospital dishes, on the contrary: cook the fillet for 10 minutes in the steamer branzino that of the slices of pumpkin; meanwhile centrifuged part of the carrots, to serve them as condiment sauce. A tasty and balanced dish will come.

eggs

Eggs are the typical food of the single: just break them in a pan to get an omelette or a fried egg. But you've never tried them with tomato sauce? In a single-portion cocotte, distributed from the pass previously heated in a pan with some fried; then break an egg, taking care that the yolk remains intact. Now bake at 180 degrees for a quarter of an hour: you will get a rich and filling dish.

Sandwich

If you really do not want to pull out the pans from the pantry and turn on the fires, folded on the classic sandwich to be filled as you please, avoiding to abound with sauces. Do you want an idea for a really greedy recipe, inspired by the Nordic countries? Try the salmon and ricotta sandwich: create a fresh ricotta sauce, emulsified with oil, salt and pepper; Meanwhile, heat the slices of homemade bread in the oven to make them crunchy; fill them with a slice of smoked salmon and a ricotta spread and scented with dill clusters. A quick lunch, but extremely tasty!