Light Lunches
Collection of healthy light lunch recipes that use fresh ingredients - from French soups (for thermos lunches), omelette, galettes, tarts and pasta to salads.
Known as 'le déjeuner' in France, served between 12-2pm, these days it's lighter but traditionally, such as weekends with family, this is a bigger affair - see Main dishes, sides and salads.
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Cottage Cheese Waffles - A Savoury, Protein-Packed Breakfast
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Sweet Corn Soup - Restaurant Style
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Easy Cheesy Cornbread with Corn (No Sugar)
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French Tomato Tart with Mustard - An Easy Summer Lunch from Provence
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Simple Green Salad - The Best All-Rounder, Seasonal Side
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White Asparagus Recipe: French Clafoutis with Lemon
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Pan-Fried Mackerel with French Mustard
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Whole Roasted Cauliflower with Cheese: Crispy Parmesan Topping and Silky Sauce
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Smoked Haddock Fishcakes Recipe
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Roast Beetroot Salad with Apple and Smoked Mackerel
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John Dory Fish - Easy Pan-Fried Recipe
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Roquefort Salad with Pear, Apple and Walnuts
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Classic Niçoise Salad - With the Real Ingredients
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Mediterranean Stuffed Zucchini (Courgettes farcies)
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Roasted Fresh Sardines (Sardines Farcies)
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Corsican Cheese Lasagna (A Lazy Cannelloni au Brocciu Recipe)
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French Pea Soup (Potage Saint-Germain)
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Thin Buckwheat Pancakes (Galettes de sarrasin)
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Leek and Potato Soup (potage Bonne Femme)
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Apple Horseradish Sauce: Perfect for Smoked Salmon
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Goat Cheese Pasta (Creamy Sauce with Walnuts)
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Cheese Waffles - Easy, Crispy and Cheesy
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Creamy Lemon Pasta Sauce
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Watercress Soup (Soupe au Cresson)
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Pure Vegetable Soup (Soupe de légumes)
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Stuffed Mini Pumpkins (Jack Be Little Farcies)
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Warm Goat Cheese Salad (salade de chèvre chaud)
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Nettle Pesto (Pesto d'Orties)
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Asparagus Puff Pastry Tart
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Cullen Skink - Traditional Scottish Smoked Haddock Soup
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Creamy Mushroom Soup (façon Cappuccino)
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French Charcuterie Plate Land and Sea (Salade Terre et Mer)
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Savoury Pumpkin Tart with Mushrooms
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Onion Tarte Tatin - With or Without Cheese
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Corsican Mint Omelette (Omelette à la Menthe)
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Asparagus Clafoutis with Parmesan Sauce
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Fluffy Cheese Scones
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Fresh Alsatian Egg Noodles (Nouilles à l'Alsacienne)
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Beetroot Horseradish Risotto - with Macarons