Meals as healthy, tasty, and simple as this

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I am on my own for a month and my motivation to cook comes from pleasing my partner. I am looking for recipes that are as healthy, tasty and easy as this.

Getting a frozen fillet of wild salmon. Putting it on a tray along with some cherry tomatoes and putting it in the oven for 20m with a splash of olive oil. Then squeeze half a lemon on top.

Any ideas?

Not quite as simple, but I really enjoyed this when I had a similar week.
Halved the recipie. First night, I cooked some chicken with the squash, and omitted the cheese. Second night as written, just heated squash and lentils in the microwave.

www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/warm-roasted-squash-and-puy-lentil-salad

Pan fry for 8 minutes instead of heating the oven.

Cook two fillets as above ( plus extra cherry tomatoes) and make a cous cous salad to have with the other one for lunch the next day.

Stir fries are dead easy and healthy. The most time consuming this is chopping the veg!

The other day I put some halloumi and a giant mushroom in the air fryer...put in a brioche bun with salad and chilli sauce. Not sure if it counts as particularly healthy but it was very quick and easy

Have a Google for oven tray bakes (the savoury kind not the cake kind). These are where you literally plonk a cut of meat/chops/fillet on the tray, with raw potatoes and veg, sometimes some kind of packet seasoning over it. Then stick in oven. They come out really nice as well

Last night we had new potatoes in a tinfoil parcel with a knob of butter and asparagus in a separate parcel. Potatoes 20 min in oven on 180° and asparagus 10 mins. Then fried a salmon steak in butter and kept it warm while adding crème fraîche and dash lemon juice to the pan to reduce and make a sauce.
When asparagus is not in season, we do it with spinach.

My lunch today was large-ish mushrooms stuffed with Boursin, olive oil drizzled over the top with chilli flakes, salt and pepper, then baked for 15-16 minutes at 180. Delicious and healthy.

Soup is very easy and great to freeze.

Lemon and garlic prawns https://savvybites.co.uk/quick-and-easy-spanish-garlic-prawns-with-lemon/

thanks everyone. I'm new to cooking meat so don't have much experience with it and don't have an air fryer!

You could do similar with white fish fillet (cod, hake) with a spoon of pesto or tapenade on the top for flavour .

Or pre-made fish cake or fish pie? (The extra-special version is fine in most supermarkets)

Stuffed pasta with pesto and grated cheese ?

All with some kind of green veg .

Following with interest!

Like PP have said, tray bakes in the oven super easy. I like roasted bell peppers, red onion, courgette with loads of oil, garlic, lemon juice, maybe some dried herbs. Add halloumi, or crumble feta over the top. Eat with couscous, boiled rice or bulgur wheat.

Egg/vegetable fried rice also super easy especially if you have any leftover boiled rice from a previous day. Bung in some egg, sesame oil, soy sauce, frozen peas, maybe an onion or whatever bits of veg you have.

Omelette super quick and easy. Add cheese and whatever random veg you have.

Stir fry with straight to wok noodles super quick and easy too, again use whatever you have in already for veg and then we use tofu or Quorn pieces for the protein.

Me too.

Roasting Tin 'Chow Mein'

Chopped meat into a large roasting tin. Mix with a supermarket sachet of stir-fry sauce. Add a ¼ cup or so of boiling water from the kettle and cook at 180ºc for 10-15 minutes depending on the type of meat. Stir through a pack of prepared stir-fry vegetables and a pack of so-called 'fresh' noodles. Add a splash more water and a good shaking of soy sauce. Another 10 minutes in the oven sprinkle with a little toasted sesame oil and serve straight from the tin.

Look up Rukmini Iyer Roasting tin recipes, there are a few books and some are available online.

Chuck some stuff in a tin, stick it in the oven and wander off for an hour. Very straightforward.

Salmon with pesto and green beans in tinfoil parcels, bake for 25 mins, good with new potatoes.

I love doing a couple of heck chicken sausages, diced peppers, cherry tomatoes tossed with paprika, garlic and harrisa and pop in the oven for 20 mins. I add baby potatoes and top with a fried egg and lots of coriander but that's not essential if you're being healthy.

I also love a noodle soup, just a stock cube, bit of soy sauce, noodles, spring onions. I add some cooked chicken, sweetcorn and whatever veg I fancy, sometimes add an egg. It takes minutes and is lovely.

I can share with you my other one thats one step harder but piss easy:

Cut an aubergine in half and dice. Cover in olive oil and place face down on tray in oven for 15m. 2m before the end cover in teriyaki sauce.

Put greek yogurt on a plate and sprinkle harissa and place aubergine on top. Someone throw some tomatoes in too.

Gnocchi in a roasting tin with mushrooms, peppers and chunks of red onion.
Put a big chunk of feta on top.
Scatter with herbs/chilli flakes and drizzle with honey.
Bake.

Another thing I eat when I'm cooking for myself is a baked sweet potato. I do in microwave and if I can be bothered crisp it up in oven/air fryer. Cut open and fill with sun dried tomatoes and feta.

All these sound delish.

The best thing to have with a baked sweet potato imo is mango salsa and a blob of soured cream.

Cod in a small dish. Mix bread crumbs or those crumbies, grated lemon rind, garlic powder, spring onions and grated parmesan- then spoon the mixture over the fish. Bake the fish till just browning. Serve with fresh veg, salad or oven chips. You could also make home-made wedges or sweet potato wedges instead.

I'd batch cook lasagne, pasta bake or even just some bolognese sauce and freeze. You could defrost and reheat the lasagne while you make a salad to go with it. The bolognese makes a quick lunch or dinner because you just need to cook the pasta.

Pizza stuffed mushrooms

Large mushrooms, pizza sauce, cheese and chopped ham. Drizzle of olive oil, sprinkle of herbs and you're away