Student Lunch Recipes

Create Great Lunches With These Fantastic Recipes

Being on a budget doesn’t mean you have to have a boring lunch – you just have to be inventive. Here are four lunch recipes that are sure to get your taste buds tingling.

Cous cous salad

Ingredients:

Cous cous
Butter
1 orange
Coriander
1 or 2 spring onions
Wafer thin chicken – shredded

Method:

Cook the cous cous according to packet instructions
Add a knob of butter and leave to one side
Peel, segment, and roughly chop an orange
Finely chop the coriander and spring onions
Shred the chicken
Combine all ingredients together and enjoy!

Chunky winter soup with pasta

Ingredients:

Shop bought spinach and ricotta tortellini
Small jar of pesto
Frozen peas
2 vegetable stock cubes dissolved in 2 pints of boiling water
Double handful of roughly chopped kale

Method:

Bring the stock to the boil and add the peas
Bring back to the boil and add the kale
Cook for a further five minutes
Add the tortellini and cook for a further five minutes
Turn off the heat, stir through a few teaspoons of pesto, and enjoy!

Note: you could swap kale for spring greens and leave out the tortellini if you want a less filling option.

Goat’s cheese sandwich

Ingredients:

Goat’s cheese
White bread
Finely chopped red onion
Mixed herbs
Oil

Method:

Lightly toast the bread on one side under a hot grill
Cut the goat’s cheese into small cubes and mix with the red onion, mixed herbs, and oil
Spread on the untoasted side of the bread and place back under the grill until the cheese has melted and the onions have softened

Chip butty

For those times when only chips will do!

Ingredients:

Oven chips
White bread
Your choice of sauces and condiments

Method:

Cook the chips according to packet instructions adding salt, herbs, or spices such as paprika to the chips
Thickly spread butter on good white bread
Assemble your sandwich
Serve with coleslaw, ketchup, mayonnaise, brown sauce, hot sauce, or any other type of sauce, condiment, or side dish