5 meals you can make in 5 minutes
Yes! You read right! 5 meals you can make in 5 minutes or less.
These recipes were are perfect for anyone with limited experience in the kitchen, limited time, limited equipment or limited motivation. There’s no really cooking required here- as simple as boiling the kettle or pushing down the toaster. These meals utilise some convenience foods like pre-chopped veggies and tinned legumes, which make putting together a nutritious and delicious meal quick and easy, even for the most time poor.
Couscous bowl w chickpeas
Ingredients:
2 cups preferred shredded veggie mix
1/2 cup couscous
1 tsp stock/bone broth powder
1/4 tsp cumin
1/3-1/2 can chickpeas
1 tbsp Greek yoghurt
1/2 lemon, juiced
2 tsp olive oil
Salt and pepper
Method: Boil the kettle. Pour 2/3 cup of boiling water over couscous, add bone broth/stock and cumin and cover with a plate for 3-4mins (or as per packet instructions). Fluff with a fork. Add shredded veggies, chickpeas and dress with lemon juice, olive oil, a dollop of yoghurt and salt and pepper. Add some fresh parsley if you’re feeling bougey.
Noodle salad bowl w edemame
Here's how:
2 cups of stifry mix/shredded veggies
1/2 lime, juiced
1 tsp olive oil
1/2 tsp @niulife fysh sauce
1 pinch of salt
1/2 cup frozen edemame
Bean thread noodles (whatever portion you want)
1 tsp sesame oil
Method: While the kettle is boiling, combine veggies, lime, olive oil and salt in a bowl. Defrost the edemame beans by covering with boiling water, drain. Pour boiling water over bean thread noodles and allow to sit until softened, drain.
Add noodles and edamame to the bowl with the salad and drizzle with sesame oil. Garnish with fresh coriander and black sesame if you’re feeling boujee.
(Almost) Greek salad bowl
Ingredients:
2 big handfuls of leafy greens
1 handful of cherry tomatoes, halved
1 small Lebanese cucumber
2/3 cup (1/2 can) chickpeas
2 tsp olive oil
1/4 lemon, juiced
Red onion/shallot thinly sliced, to taste
Salt and pepper
Crumbled goat’s feta if you’re feeling boujee
Method: Combine all ingredients in a bowl.
Miso vege noodle soup
Ingredients:
2 handfuls of brown rice noodles
2-3 mushrooms, sliced
A small handful of snow peas
A large handful of bokchoy leaves, chopped
5 broccolini stems, chopped
2 tbsp of miso paste (or to taste)
1/2 tsp sesame oil
Method: Pour boiling water in a large soup bowl, allow the bowl to heat it up then pour out the water. Add miso paste and a dash of boiling water and dissolve. Add noodles and all vegetables and top with boiling water so all ingredients are submerged. Cover with a plate for five minutes. Serve with a drizzle of sesame oil if your’e feeling extra
Pita and hummus salad bowl
Ingredients:
2-3 handfuls of mixed leafy greens
2/3 cup tinned lentils, rinsed
1-2 pitta pieces of pita bread
1/2 lemon, juiced
1/2 tbsp olive oil
1/8 red onion, finely sliced
@pilpelfinefoods hummus
Salt and pepper
Method: Toast pita bread in a toaster for for about 2minutes until crispy, then break into small pieces. Add leafy greens, pita, lentils, red onion to a bowl. Lemon juice, olive oil, salt and pepper and a few dollops of hummus.