Elly Curshen’s quick weeknight recipes for using up leftover greens, bread and vegetables

These are each astir taking the spoils of the weekend, whether that’s leftovers from Sunday lunch, the bits you couldn’t decorativeness from a takeaway oregon the past scraps from a enactment spread, and stretching them retired to marque joyous weekday lunches. I’m concentrating connected ideas, alternatively than recipes arsenic such, due to the fact that utilizing up the likelihood and ends from the fridge needs to beryllium portion of the travel of your cooking to debar waste. Everything is quick, easy, involves minimal prep and, crucially, is endlessly unfastened to adaptation.

Leftover naan with egg, chilli crisp, chutney and outpouring bulb (pictured top)

Prep 5 min
Cook 15 min
Serves 1

1 medium egg
Leftover naan oregon roti, oregon frozen paratha cooked from frozen successful a adust frying cookware for a mates of minutes
1 spring bulb and/or fresh herbs – coriander is perfect
Chutney, such arsenic mango, raita, mint, lime pickle
Chilli crisp – I similar Laoganma

Bring a tiny cookware of h2o to a boil, past adhd the ovum and acceptable a timer for six and a fractional minutes. (To prevention time, boil and peel a fewer eggs, past support them successful a sealed instrumentality successful the fridge, wherever they’ll beryllium good for 3 days.)

Meanwhile, sprinkle a small h2o implicit the leftover naan and instrumentality it nether the grill for a infinitesimal connected each side, to aftermath it up a bit. (If you are utilizing frozen paratha, region from the packaging and enactment straight into a large, blistery frying cookware and navigator arsenic per the packet instructions.)

Finely portion the outpouring bulb and astir chop the herbs, if using. Spread immoderate chutney implicit the naan, past peel and 4th the boiled ovum and put it connected top. Add the outpouring onion, herbs, if using, and chilli crisp, past rotation oregon fold up and devour implicit a plate.

Leftover greens connected toast with cottage cheese, melted chilli jam and toasted seeds

Elly Curshen’s leftover greens connected toast with cottage cheese, chilli jam and toasted seeds.

Prep 5 min
Cook 10 min
Serves 1

2 tsp olive oil
1 tiny fistful leftover greens (cooked oregon raw), specified arsenic cabbage, greenish beans, kale, cauliflower leaves, peas and/or broccoli, each astir chopped
2 slices bread
2-4 tbsp cottage cheese, oregon pick food oregon creme fraiche
1 tbsp chilli jelly oregon jam, oregon saccharine chilli sauce
Flaky oversea salt
2 tsp toasted mixed seeds – toast a full bag, past store successful a jar to person to hand

Heat the lipid successful a ample frying cookware and adhd the leftover greens. If they are already cooked, conscionable fto them vigor done and char a spot (avoid the temptation to jiggle them astir excessively much); if they’re raw, stir-fry with a splash of h2o until tender, past permission to char. You privation hot, somewhat blistered greens that clasp their bite.

Meanwhile, toast the bread, past dispersed it with the cottage cheese. Pile the blistery greens connected top, past instantly disturbance the chilli jam into the bare blistery pan, adhd a splash of h2o and lukewarm done for 30 seconds, until the jam liquefies (if utilizing saccharine chilli sauce, skip this step). Spoon the condiment implicit the greens, decorativeness with a sprinkle of flaky oversea brackish and immoderate toasted mixed seeds, and service hot.

Olive, reddish bulb and mint salsa with hummus connected toast

Elly Curshen’s olive, reddish bulb and mint salsa and hummus connected toast.

Prep 5 min
Cook 10 min
Serves 1

30g mixed olives, pitted and astir chopped
20g precise finely diced reddish onion
A fewer mint leaves, astir chopped
A splash of red-wine vinegar (about ½ tsp)
A fewer grinds of achromatic pepper
2 slices bread, such as seeded sourdough, or crackers, oregon crudites
Hummus – you’ll request astir 1 tbsp per portion of bread

• Elly Curshen is simply a nutrient writer based successful Bristol.