Many agree that home-cooked food is not only tasty, healthy, but also savings for the budget. Only there is no time left to cook dinner in the evening, it is barely enough to cook dinner. There is a way out: lunch for the office can be prepared from what is left of the evening meal. Cooking will take about 15 minutes at most, some do not even need to be reheated.
What to cook for work quickly? Use the leftover vegetables from dinner to make a hearty omelet. Any vegetable will do, choose the one you like: potatoes, zucchini, eggplant, frozen vegetable mixes, stews, pumpkin, pasta or mushrooms.
Omelet with spinach and potatoes
For an omelet you will need: 1 potato in a jacket, 50 g of frozen spinach, butter, grated parmesan and sour cream - 2 tbsp. l., 2 eggs, 1 tsp. flour, salt, pepper.
Put spinach and butter in a preheated pan, stir until defrosting, add peeled and chopped potatoes to spinach, fry. Fill with a mixture of eggs, sour cream, flour. Sprinkle with Parmesan, cover and fry until eggs set.
If there is chicken left from dinner, then you can make sandwiches or pita rolls for work from it. And it doesn't matter in what way you cooked the chicken - boiled, fried or baked. Just cut it into strips or large cubes, add bell peppers, olives, cucumbers, tomatoes cut in the same way. Lettuce leaves are a great addition. We wrap everything in pita bread, pack it in parchment.
Lavash rolls with chicken and vegetables
We need a pita leaf, tomato sauce, chopped chicken, half a pepper, olives.
Lavash is smeared with sauce (you can use soft cream cheese), a mixture of chicken, pieces of pepper and olives is laid on it. Roll the lavash into a roll, wrap it in parchment.
You can quickly cook couscous for work. Delicious porridge is ready 5 minutes after the cereal is poured with boiling water, and then whipped with a fork. You can add stews, stewed vegetables to the side dish, pour with any gravy. Porridge goes well with herbs, suluguni, feta cheese.
Couscous with feta cheese and mushrooms
We take half a glass of couscous, 4 mushrooms, a couple of tomatoes, feta cheese 50 g, a clove of garlic, thyme, herbs, salt.
How to make couscous is indicated on the package. Add a clove of garlic to the oil heated in a frying pan, fry the chopped mushrooms in this oil, discard the garlic. Chop the tomatoes and stew together with the mushrooms, add salt and spices. Mix crumbled cheese with hot couscous, add stew, sprinkle with chopped herbs.
From the pasta left over from dinner, you can prepare a hearty and tasty salad for work. The classic option is canned fish. But you can turn on your imagination and add ham, corn, green peas.
Pasta and tuna salad
We will need: a can of canned tuna, 300 g of ready-made pasta, 200 g of green peas, 200 g of celery, 1 pepper, 150 g of yogurt.
Mash tuna in a plate with a fork, mix with boiled pasta. Add chopped celery, peppers and onions. In another bowl, make a dressing: mix yogurt, mustard, lemon juice. Season salad, mix gently, chill for an hour. Then serve.
