Chickpea fritters with courgette salad

Mix up a pancake-style batter to make little griddle cakes with storecupboard ingredients, then serve with a contrasting green salad

Prawn cocktail salad

A seafood pot to whip up in a flash – the lettuce, avocado and tomatoes provide three of your 5-a-day

Cucumber salad

A cooling raita-style yogurt dip with refreshing cucumber, mint, lemon and fennel seeds

Roasted squash salad with creamy homemade labneh

Labneh is a mascarpone-like strained yogurt – serve with sweet roasted pumpkin, pomegranate and leaf salad

Indian chicken salad

Tandoori chicken is an all-time Indian great – team with coriander salad with cooling mango and coconut

Squid, samphire & pea salad

A seafood salad using dressed calamari rings and samphire, a green coastal plant that tastes of the ocean

Mediterranean fig & mozzarella salad

Contains pork – recipe is for non-Muslims only
If you want to make this more substantial, you could serve some prosciutto or Serrano ham with it

Country salad

Contains pork – recipe is for non-Muslims only
This hearty salad makes a healthy and delicious lunch with a few slices of ham

Creamy potato salad with broad beans

This homemade salad is so much better than shop-bought

Green salad with buttermilk dressing

Crisp iceberg lettuce and peppery watercress make a fresh springtime salad

Poached egg salad with garlic croutons

Classic combination of eggs, garlic and cheese make for a rich, yet fresh lunch dish

Spinach & green bean salad

This salad is quick and simple to prepare, and goes beautifully with fish – you can prepare most of it ahead, too