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Home desko: 50 recipes to liven up your WFH lunching

Mix up your work-from-home week with interesting salads, quick noodles and flavourful snacks.

50 recipes
Jammy centred soft-boiled eggs and ratatouille on toast.
EASY

Ratatouille on toast with soft-boiled eggs

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Adam Liaw
Warm steak salad with chipotle dressing.
EASY

Warm steak salad with chipotle dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Andrew McConnell's spring salad for brunch or lunch.
EASY

Asparagus with tarragon mustard dressing, hazelnuts and soft-boiled egg

  • < 30 mins
  • Andrew McConnell
Attica owner-chef Ben Shewry's lunch salad.
EASY

Ben Shewry's healthy lunch salad recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Ben Shewry
A ploughman's platter in salad form.
EASY

Ploughman's salad

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Chorizo Scotch eggs.

Chorizo Scotch eggs recipe

  • 30 mins - 1 hr
  • Jill Dupleix
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Veggie eggs
EASY

Veggie eggs

  • < 30 mins
  • Teresa Cutter
When garlic bread meets cheese toastie.
EASY

Garlic bread and cheese toastie recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Mushroom and tarragon toasts.
EASY

Mushroom and tarragon toast

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
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EASY

Green cheese toasties

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Food. Luke Mangan's quick ham and vegetable soup. SHD SUNDAY LIFE Picture by VANESSA LEVIS SLIFE120708

Quick ham and vegetable soup

  • < 30 mins
  • Luke Mangan
Caroline Velik's chicken soup with noodles and dumplings.
EASY

Asian-style chicken noodle soup

  • < 30 mins
  • Caroline Velik
Dumplings swimming in quick red curry sweet potato soup.
EASY

Dumplings with red curry sweet potato soup

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Cheat's noodle soup with dumplings and peppercorns.
EASY

Dumpling noodle soup with pink peppercorns

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
This cheat's chicken noodle soup works with any small pasta shape.
EASY

Pesto chicken, lemon and supermarket leftover pasta soup

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
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Salmon and miso noodle soup.

Salmon and miso noodle soup

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Healthy school lunches by Wholefood Simply.
EASY

Four-ingredient quiche

  • < 30 mins
  • Bianca Slade
Move over green eggs and ham, hello green mash and egg.
EASY

Ocean trout with green mash, peas and a fried egg recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Kale chips are powerhouses of nutrients and vitamins.
EASY

Kale chips

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Jamie Oliver's super spinach pancakes.
EASY

Jamie Oliver's super spinach pancakes

  • < 30 mins
  • Jamie Oliver
Neil Perry says he can't get enough of these corn fritters.
EASY

Neil Perry's sweetcorn cakes with maple syrup and bacon

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Artichoke omelette
EASY

Artichoke omelette recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Darren Robertson and Mark LaBrooy
Eggs with ratatouille, ricotta & anchovies. Karen Martini RATATOUILLE recipes for Epicure and Good Food. Photographed by Marina Oliphant. Styling by Caroline Velik. Photographed May 28, 2013. The Age Newspaper and The Sydney Morning Herald.
EASY

Eggs with ratatouille, ricotta and anchovies

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
Neil Perry's ham omelette.
EASY

Neil Perry's ham omelette recipe

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
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Warrigal greens frittatini.
EASY

Frittatina with warrigal greens

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Tuna, avocado and tofu with wasabi cream

Tuna, avocado and tofu with wasabi cream

  • < 30 mins
  • Jill Dupleix
Put an egg on it! Chilli-fried black beans.
EASY

Quick chilli-fried black beans with avocado and egg

  • < 30 mins
  • Neil Perry
Gochujang chicken bibimbap bowl.
EASY

Shredded chicken bibimbap bowl of sorts, with quick spicy barbecue sauce and slaw

  • < 30 mins
  • Katrina Meynink
Citrus peel, such as lemon (pictured), adds extra flavour to these simple pickled vegetables.
EASY

Quick Japanese pickles

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Quick curried rice with egg, spring onions & peas.
EASY

Quick curried rice with egg, spring onions and peas

  • < 30 mins
  • Karen Martini
Jamie Oliver's peas, beans, chilli and mint.
EASY

Jamie Oliver's peas, beans, chilli and mint

  • < 30 mins
  • Jamie Oliver
Chanchan salmon.
EASY

Chanchan salmon

  • < 30 mins
  • Adam Liaw
Falafel salad.

Four vegan lunches you can throw together in five minutes flat

  • Alexander Hart
Falafel wraps are loved across much of the Middle East – and increasingly around the world.

Four brilliant lunches you can throw together in five minutes using five ingredients

  • Alexander Hart
Colourful cabbage coleslaw.
EASY

Colourful cabbage crunch salad recipe with fried haloumi

  • < 30 mins
  • Rachel Khoo
Rachel Khoo's Parisian-inspired pancetta, artichoke and green bean salad.
EASY

Crisp pancetta, artichoke and green bean salad recipe with dijon mustard dressing

  • < 30 mins
  • Rachel Khoo
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