5 Different Types Of Healthy Lunch Recipes

Afternoon really is the time when the body’s energy levels go down and one becomes listless. A lot of people who tend to skip breakfast succumb to their hunger levels and opt for unhealthy food choices, Here are few healthy lunch recipes to help you not only get you the daily nutrient requirement, but also help you not get drowsy, post lunch.

Top 5 Healthy Lunch Recipes

Tomato Soup

In just twenty five minutes you have a healthy and delicious lunch ready.

Ingredients

1 cup diced tomato
2 tbspn tomato puree
½ cup corn
½ cup kidney beans
1 ½ cups of water
Salt to taste

Method

Put water in a cooking bowl, add beans and corns to it and let it come to a boil. Add the diced tomato, tomato puree and salt and cook on low flame for twenty minutes.

Chicken Wrap

This is not only a healthy lunch recipe but the kids and husbands both are going to absolutely love it!

Ingredients

½ chopped chicken breast
2 tbsp sour cream
1 tbsp red curry powder
3 slices of tomato
½ cup lettuce
1 wheat tortilla
Olive oil

Method

Heat the oil in a pan and add the cubes of chicken to it, cook till it becomes brown. Put the sour cream and the curry powder in a bowl and mix it well and simultaneously warm up the tortillas in the microwave for about 25 seconds. Now spread the cream and curry mix on the tortilla and sprinkle the chicken cubes and lettuce on top. Roll and your wrap is ready.

Tuna and Bean Salad

Ingredients

2 can of chunk tuna drained of water
1 can of chick peas
½ cup of diced red bell pepper
¼ cup diced red onion
1 tbsp olive oil

Method

Mix all the ingredients and keep them in the refrigerator for twenty minutes, you can further add other vegetables and cream.

Humus Wrap

Ingredients

1 multigrain bread or tortilla
¼ cup cheese
¼ cup sliced onion
¼ cup diced cucumber
Lettuce
4 tbsp roasted garlic humus

Method

Spread the humus on the bread or the tortillas (warm the tortillas in the microwave first). Add all the other ingredients and roll the bread or the tortilla and enjoy your humus wrap.

Taco Salad

Ingredients

2 slices of lean beef or chicken
½ cup of canned black beans
Onion powder
½ clove or garlic
2 tbsp sour cream
¼ cup cheese
2 tbsp salsa
Any other vegetables that you deem fit to be put in a salad

Method

Put oil in a pan and brown the chicken or the beef, add the onion powder, beans and garlic. Remove it from the pan and put it on a serving tray. Add all the other green vegetables and your healthy lunch recipe is ready.

Healthy eating should become an integral part of our lives and for a lot of people cooking a full fledged lunch meal can be really difficult and hence they opt for unhealthy take away as the easy way out. These quick recipes are great sources of nutrition and are easy to prepare.