Looking for recipe ideas for no or low cook, hot weather meal ideas.
I've one to follow but I'd love your contributions. As with the hot weather thread I don't mind at all if there are duplications.
Think minimal or no cooking required.
To follow is the one I went with for yesterday & today and now I'm looking to tomorrow.
500g bag of wholemeal fusili pasta cooked before it gets hot at breakfast. Threw in 200g each of frozen sweetcorn and peas at the end of cooking time.
Then at lunchtime I served half of it for a family of 4 with some pick your own sides;
Bacon bits (also pan fried at breakfast)
Diced onion
Grated cheese
Homemade garlic mayo (1 clove crushed into a few tbsp your regular mayo or low fat works well)
Honey soy dip (1 tsp soy sauce, 1 tbsp honey, few drops of fish sauce)
Cheese board
Olives
Today was a veggie day, so I took the 2nd half of the pasta from yesterday and added a homemade pesto made with
60g cashew nuts
60g cheese
100g olive oil
100g water
Frozen Peas about 200g
White wine vinegar
Salt & pepper
Blitz it all up
I just mixed it through the pasta
Went with this idea in the end. With grateful thanks to @pawpower and to everyone else who contributed mouth watering ideas.
I've cooked some rice noodles, boiled eggs, and toasted some nuts. The noodles now have soy and sesame oil tossed through them. And I'll be adding thin slivers of smoked salmon, grated carrot, diced red onion, spinach, and salad veg. I've also a large watermelon which I'll cube up for dessert. Lovely stuff. Thank you. 🍜 🍣 🍉
@[email protected] I'd like to make different kinds of pasta salad. You can use whatever kind of pasta you like, I like to use glass noodles, or rice noodles, which don't require very much cooking at all, and mix it with greens, such as cilantro, or basil, and bean sprouts and onion. You can add whatever kind of protein you want and you can get a store-bought sesame dressing to pour over it. it's really good. Another one I like to make uses tortellini, with cherry tomatoes, Greek olives, artichoke hearts, and pepperoni. I used a zesty Italian oil and vinegar dressing on that one.
Graceless Hippo