No Cook Recipes - Quick And Easy Meals

When it's hot outside or when you just want something simple and easy to make, try these no cook recipes for a quick meal. Made with just a few simple ingredients, they don't require you to heat up the kitchen and can be put together in minutes.

These no-cook meals can be healthy too by using low-fat and low-sodium products wherever possible and using small amounts of oil where needed.

- Combine chopped tomatoes, black olives, fresh torn basil leaves, and feta cheese chunks with a drizzle of olive oil and lemon juice. Serve on whole grain bread with a side of baked potato chips.

- Combine shelled, cooked shrimp (tail removed and cut into chunks), thinly sliced celery, jarred roasted red peppers (drained and chopped), chopped scallions, chopped yellow bell pepper, pitted and chopped black olives. Toss ingredients in an olive oil vinaigrette and fill a soft tortilla shell with mixture for a simple wrap sandwich. Serve with apples and pear slices.

- Use some store bought prepared rotisserie chicken for this easy no cook meal. Shred some of the chicken with a fork and combine with chopped red bell pepper, minced fresh dill, lemon zest, and sour cream. Place the mixture in a quartered tomato and top with a sprinkling of pine nuts. Serve with pear slices tossed with a little honey, chopped fresh mint, and some cinnamon.

- For a flavorful sandwich, spread some blue cheese dressing on one side of two slices of whole grain bread. On one slice of bread place a couple of slices of smoked salmon, a sprinkling of dried dill, thin slices of apple, some pitted and sliced green olives, and thinly sliced red onion. Top sandwich with the second piece of bread and serve along with a side of cut up tomatoes tossed with salt and pepper and a squeeze of lemon juice.

- Make a simple and flavorful layered salad of bottled eggplant slices (drained), thinly sliced peeled jicama, canned black beans (rinsed and drained), canned fired roasted tomatoes (drained and chopped), crumbled feta cheese. Top salad with a sprinkling of pine nuts and chopped fresh cilantro. Serve salad with sourdough rolls.

Laura Cokherell, a cooking enthusiast, shares a large selection of budget friendly recipes, including more no cook meals, at her website Quick Salad Recipes.com. You will find a large selection of quick recipes for healthy, flavorful, natural meals that require a minimum of ingredients, time, effort and clean-up for the time-pressed world we live in.