What are you favourite light summer meals?

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Struggling for inspiration, don’t want something stodgy and big, but fed up of salad!
Any suggestions? What are your go to light, preferably easy, summer dinners?

Pasta dishes, bbq style meats with crusty bread and green leaves, just had a bread and cheese supper because I cba this evening.

Healthy bowl....diced cucumber, roasted chickpeas, coriander, hummus, falafels, sweetcorn...yummy!

We like an easy pasta. Chopped fresh tomatoes, lots of crushed garlic, flakes of Romano cheese, lots of chopped fresh basil, some good olive oil, a splash of balsamic, bit of lemon juice, and baby shrimp. Salt and pepper. I might add hot pepper flakes depending on mood. Mix in hot cooked pasta. Linguini or spaghetti works well. Very refreshing and light tasting. Very little cooking to heat up the house, and easy to clean up.

Can be modified easily to use chicken or a veggie choice instead of shrimp. Smoked salmon would probably work but it has a stronger flavour.

Bought sushi.
Platter of deli meats, cheeses etc with good bread and salad.
Soup and bread.
Omelette or frittata

This is lovely but takes time to marinade.
In flat small baking dish (or serving doesn’t matter) put in one part soya sauce to three parts olive oil. Add fresh grated ginger (as much as you like) squeeze of one lime, couple teaspoons of sugar, and crushed/grated garlic (again as much as you like. Put in thick tuna steaks to marinade for four hours turning halfway. Fry in the marinade and after tuna done keep frying and the garlic and ginger will caramelise. Spoon the cooked marinade over the steaks and Serve with an avocado, mozzarella, tomato and basil salad with lime dressing. Yum yum yum!

Cold roast chicken and chick pea salad. Lemon and garlic to season.

Chicken Kiev and vegetable rice plus salad

This evening we're having sticky chicken thighs with homemade slaw and salad. We also like sushi salad, flatbreads filled with various things, steak panzanella, tabbouleh with anything.

Tray bake ,usually with marinaded chicken thighs.
Bake marinaded chicken with wedges of onion ,peppers ,courgette ,vine tomatoes,any other bits of veg that you have then 20 or so mins before end of cooking top with halloumi or sprinkle with feta .
We have it on it's own but sometimes add cous cous or rice ,salad or new potatoes.
Very versatile,I make a version with fish too.

Look up vegan Buddha bowls. Lots of avocado, tofu, hummous, noodles, cucumber, salad, roasted chickpeas, cold cooked sweet potato/butternut squash, spicy dipping sauce. Make a huge batch and it keeps a good few days for lunches etc. Filling, light but so full of flavour. Add chicken etc if you eat meat.

Ooh thanks everyone! It’s rare that ALL suggestions sound great but they do!
I did a homemade pizza with goats cheese, red onion, spinach and sundried tomatoes in the end on the easiest base ever, with a big salad.
Didn’t expect to get so many replies but that’s the rest of the week sorted 😁

Halloumi and watermelon skewers
Duck and blackberry salad
Proscutio, peach and rocket
Panzanella

Ice cream

Tuna nicois with fresh tuna steak

We had chicken thighs, red pepper and red onion fried off with fajita seasoning, on top of a salad with some grated cheese and light mayo.

Everyone in the family loves it.

Like the idea of Buddha bowls (No not bowels, autocorrect)

Garlic, lemon, oregano marinaded halloumi, with a pea shoot salad

Shaved courgette salad with pangratto

Crisp fired aubergine with lemon thyme and goats cheese

Seared lamb leg steak, Greek salad, tzatziki and either roasted new potatoes or pitta bread. Yum! And super fast too.

Tonight we had lemon sole with some dressed green beans and potato salad. Lush

Ready to eat sliced salmon or salmon steaks with either jacket or new potatoes with corn cob goes down well in chez dogglesworth.

Bibimbap bowl
Omelette
Cheese and crackers 😁