Four quick recipes to eat well without wasting time – 03/23/2023 – Food

Even for those who continue to enjoy the home office, dinner can be a complicated meal. You hardly want to eat the same thing for lunch, but you also have little energy to go to the kitchen and prepare something new. In this case, delivery, usually expensive and greasy, always ends up being the solution.

To help you break this pattern, we selected four recipes that are ready in less than an hour and that will save your dinner for the whole week, proving that the last meal of the day can be, at the same time, healthy, delicious and fast. to prepare.

To make everything even easier, a little planning is always welcome to optimize time in the kitchen. If you have few ingredients in your pantry, plan a trip to the supermarket, buy what you need and have everything ready – beans always need to be soaked, for example.

If you don’t have or forget an ingredient, such as dried meat or fresh tuna, for example, just replace them with equivalents, such as regular ground beef and canned tuna. The important thing is to build your own flavors and eat well!

Check out four recipes to cook when you’re tired below:

NORTHEAST MEATBALLS

These meatballs go well with sauce, accompanying rice, on pasta or eaten as an appetizer without the sauce. To make it lighter, instead of using bacon, sauté it in a tablespoon of olive oil and, instead of frying it, bake the meatballs in a non-stick pan.

Time: up to 1 hour
Performance: 16 units

Ingredients:

• 1 kg of dried meat
• 100g of ground bacon
• 2 big onions
• 2 tomatoes (without skin) chopped
• 1 red bell pepper (without skin) chopped
• 1 bunch of parsley
• 1 cup breadcrumbs (tea)
• 4 tablespoons wheat flour
• 1 egg
• 1 can of tomato sauce

Preparation:

• Soak the dried meat in water the day before. Cook for an hour or until softened and finely chopped.
• Make a stew with the bacon, onion, tomato, bell pepper and parsley. Add the dried meat to this stew and let it cook until it is very soft. Remove from the heat, let it cool slightly and incorporate the soaked bread crumbs in the milk and the egg.
• Make the meatballs, dip them in wheat flour and fry them in plenty of oil. Once ready, water them with already heated tomato sauce.

BEAN SOUP

Time: up to 1 hour
Performance: 8 servings

Ingredients:

• 1/2 kg of black beans
• 150g Paio sausage, sliced
• 2 minced garlic cloves
• 2 tablespoons olive oil
• 1/2 kg of pork ribs
• 2 tablespoons minced onion
• 1/2 cup oil
• Salt and pepper to taste
• 4 cups of cracklings
• 4 pieces of bread, cut into slices

Preparation:

• Cook the beans with the paio and garlic already golden in olive oil. Once cooked, blend the beans with the paio and the cooking water in a blender, check the salt and set aside.
• Season the pork ribs with the onion, pepper and salt to taste. Fry in hot oil until browned. Serve the broth very hot in mugs, adding a rib for each portion.
• Accompany with cracklings and slices of French bread.

TUNA SALATE

Recipe from the Spanish restaurant Don Curro, published in the “Avental” section of the column that Joyce Pascowitch kept in Folha de S. Paulo for more than a decade. A glass of Marquês de Riscal white wine and an extra dose of olive oil, both Spanish, are the perfect accompaniments to this salad.

Time: 20 minutes
Performance: 1 portion

Ingredients:

• 150g fresh tuna, cooked in cubes
• a tomato cut in four
• three flat lettuce leaves
• three frisee lettuce leaves
• three of endives
• four onion rings
• three strips of green pepper
• three of yellow
• four black olives
• fresh peas to taste

Preparation:

• In a medium bowl, place the whole leaves, before the other ingredients, which come next.
• Season with salt, pepper, lemon, vinegar and oil, all to the customer’s taste.

SPAGHETTI CARBONARA

Recipe by chef and presenter Carlos Bertolazzi

Time: up to half an hour
Performance: 4 servings

Ingredients:

• 3 units gems
• 1 unit whole egg
• 3 dessert spoons of pecorino
• black pepper to taste
• 320g spaghetti
• 1 cup diced bacon

Preparation:

• Mix the egg, cheese and pepper.
• Toast the bacon cubes.
• Mix the cooked spaghetti with the egg mixture and the toasted bacon.